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STUDENTS SHARING SCIENCE

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STUDENTS SHARING SCIENCE

STUDENTS SHARING SCIENCE

STUDENTS SHARING SCIENCE

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WHAT IS THE BIG IDEA?

CITIZEN SCIENCE

PROFESSIONALS and LEARNERS

STUDENTS SHARING SCIENCE

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citizen science Projects

PROFESSIONALS and LEARNERS

PROFESSIONALS and LEARNERS

PROFESSIONALS and LEARNERS

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Resource for the students, teachers, professionals and the whole community to connect and learn.

OUR PALS

WHAT ARE WE UP TO?

PROFESSIONALS and LEARNERS

PROFESSIONALS and LEARNERS

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Check out our upcoming events and activities. 

Events and Activties

STUDENTS SHARING SCIENCE pilot project Photo Gallery

Students Sharing Science pilot project

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KAUAI COMMUNITY SCIENCE CENTER PILOT PROJECT

Collaborators

Waimea Canyon Middle School, Waimea, Kauai

Sciencenter, Ithaca, New York

Funding Sources

County of Kauai, Office of Economic Development

Pilot Project

The Students Sharing Science pilot project provides the Kauai Community Science Center, KCSC, with an opportunity to pilot their student generated display/hands-on-activity concept by collaborating with the Integrated Science Class at Waimea Canyon Middle School, WCMS, and Sciencenter in Ithaca, NY.


Through this collaboration KCSC will connect students and teachers with meaningful professional collaborators that will provide the students with mentors and real-life applications of the scientific principals they are working on bringing to life for the community. 


WCMS students will bring their voice, creativity and energy to KCSC and help the organization understand student needs, interests and begin to learn how KCSC can best serve and support students on Kauai. 


WCMS Teachers will provide expertise, guidance and support to ensure that the level of involvement and support are aligned with both teacher objectives and student needs. 


The Sciencenter in Ithaca, NY will provide expertise and experience as a professional collaborator and as a nationally recognized hands-on science center. Sciencenter also has a "Future Science Leaders" program for middle school aged students that will be very relevant in the collaboration. 


Additional professional collaborators from the Kauai Community will also support building these relationships. The experience gained from this pilot program will be foundational to KCSC. 

List of Activities

  • Organizational meeting with KCSC & WCMS - October 1, 2019
  • KCSC presents at WCMS Career Day  - October 2, 2019
  • KCSC first meets WCMS Integrated Science Classes - October 22, 2019
  • Sciencenter first meets WCMS Integrated Science Classes - October 31, 2019
  • Kauai Chamber of Commerce - Member Spotlight Table - December 17, 2019
  • Ele‘ele School STEM Night - January 31, 2020
  • Adrienne Testa, Sciencenter, Ithaca, NY visits Waimea to work with students face-to-face - February 3 - 7, 2020


County of Kauai OED Grant Progress Reports

Grant progress reports

Student Exhibits Under Development

Check out the wide variety of projects being developed by the students in Mrs. Rowe's Integrated Science Class at Waimea Canyon Middle School

Student Exhibits in development

student EXHIBITS in DEVELOPMENT

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EVERY STUDENT INTEREST IS CONNECTED TO SCIENCE

Students started the process by exploring how science is related to the activities and subjects that they are interested in. No matter what the students are interested in, there is an element of science in it. By letting the students select their exhibit "Big Ideas" based on their interests it naturally resulted in a wide array of exhibits on many different topics that the students had a personal connection to.

STUDENT INTERESTS

Music, Photography, Art, Minerals, Engines, Trucks, Plants, Motorcycles and Video Games, Bey Blades, Weather, Pancakes, Basketball, Mechanics, Video Games, Engines, Football, Magnets, 

STUDENT EXHIBITS UNDER DEVELOPMENT

MORE DETAILS ABOUT STUDENT EXHIBITS

more details about the STUDENT exhibits under development

Students working on their floor piano prototype.

MUSIC - Floor Piano

This group is interested in music. They chose to create a floor piano as a fun, interactive way to teach visitors how a piano works. They built their prototype with a makey makey kit.

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PHOTOGRAPHY - Fantastical Filters

Their interest in photography insipired these students to create an exhibit related to filters and how filters change the way you see an image. Their prototype allow a the visitor to slide filters and images so that they can see for themselves how the different filters/images demonstrate the science behind filters.

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ART - Three Little Pigments

These artistic students decided to create an exhibit that demonstrates the primary pigment colors, the primary colors of light and how they are related. Their exhibit allows the visitor to interact with red, green and blue lights and also the amazing shadows of the primary pigment colors, cyan, magenta and yellow that they create. Their prototype creates a photobooth like space for the visitor to explore.

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MINERALS - Same Element, but Different

These students wanted to show how something that is made of the same element, carbon, can have such different properties, uses and value.

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VIDEO GAMES - How's Your Reaction Time?

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MOTORCYCLES - Big Wheels Keep on Rolling

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PLANTS - Life Cycle of Taro

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BEY BLADES - Momentum in Motion

Student Sharing Science pilot project GRANT progress reports

Q4 2019_Students Sharing Science_19-20 RFP Progress Report_011420 (pdf)Download
Q1 2020_Students Sharing Science_19-20 RFP Progress Report_03.18.20 (pdf)Download

Professionals and Learners Collaborative

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Why?

When students can interact with professionals in fields related to their science fair projects or career interests they will have an opportunity for deeper learning and an enhanced experience. They will have the potential to better understand the importance of their area of interest, project or future career from folks who are doing related work everyday.

Professionals

If you are a professional interested in working with students please contact us. You do not have to be on Kauai to participate. We would be happy to set up a zoom call with you, even if you are on Kauai. We want to make this as easy as possible for you. If you have expertise to share, we hope to hear from you.

share your expertise

Students

Are you doing a science fair project? 

Would you like to learn more about a career you are interested in ? 

Do you want to explore what you might do in the future?

Are you interested in SCIENCE? 

If any of these apply or you just want to learn more about Kauai Community Science Center contact us and we can explore how we can work together.

share your interests

Teachers

We can't do any of this without you! We need your expertise and experience to ensure that we are supporting all of your work in the classroom. Please contact us if you are interested in working with professionals or have a student that might be. 

Let us know how we can support you

Building Relationships & Supporting Learning

Kauai Community Science Center wants to create opportunities for students to discover science in their interests and explore careers. Connecting students and teachers with professionals on Kauai, in Hawaii and beyond is a way for students to have career- connected and project-based learning opportunities. The student generated content and student led activities that are a product of these experiences are the the foundation of the Kauai Community Science Center. These experiences will support student learning in career academies pathways in school https://www.ncacinc.com/nsop/academies and prepare them for their future working, learning and improving their community.

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PALS Pilot Project

We are happy to be working with Mrs. Yamagata and her students in the Science Fair 20% Class at Waimea Canyon Middle School. We just started working with them on October 29, 2019 so we hope to have some examples of real "PALS" to share with you soon. 

HOOKUI PROJECT

BESTY Mobile

BESTY Mobile Logo Contest

BESTY Mobile Logo Contest

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Bringing Education, Science & Technology to You

A mobile wifi hotspot and STEAM/Makerspace resource coming to West Kauai this fall.

Your new besty

BESTY Mobile Logo Contest

BESTY Mobile Logo Contest

BESTY Mobile Logo Contest

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We are going to need a BESTY logo to decorate the Ford Transit Cargo Van that will be the BESTY Mobile.

Contest information

KCSC Internship Program

Teachers Sharing Science

Teachers Sharing Science

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KCSC is looking for student interns for the 2020-2021 School Year. 

Internship information

Teachers Sharing Science

Teachers Sharing Science

Teachers Sharing Science

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KCSC is building a science teachers collaborative for science educators on Kauai

Science Educator Collaborative
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