Keep on Truckin’ with the Race for Planet X

Greetings all!

The Race for Planet X at "Keep on Truckin" 2011, Mid-America Science Museum, Hot Springs

Derrick Warren here to tell you about the Race for Planet X’s visit to the Mid-America Science Museum in Hot Springs, AR, to “Keep on Truckin’”!

Keep on Truckin’ is an annual event put on by Mid-America Science Museum that allows children, and those who wish they were children again, to explore full-size trucks and heavy machinery.

The Race for Planet X was just one truck people got to see up close and personal.

Patrons were able to sit inside the trucks, climb and crawl inside the trucks, honk the horns, sound the sirens, and even wear some of the gear that the drivers of these huge vehicles have to wear.

Participating in this event were the Race for Planet X Mobile Museum, an ambulance, fire trucks, police cars, SWAT vans, dump trucks, utility trucks, milk trucks, a monster truck named “Fourplay” and many more vehicles.

More than 500 people climbed on board the Race for Planet X!

The 2^nd annual Keep on Truckin’ event was a huge success. It brought in around 1,000 visitors to the museum and more than half of them visited our mobile museum. That was an epic win for Planet X attendance. We have already been invited back to the event next year and we have graciously accepted as long as we’re able to do so. Maybe next time we can arrive in style sitting on 50” rims.

If you were there, send us your photos so we can share them with the world!

Were you at Keep on Truckin’? If you were, send us your photos (lmeyers@amod.org) and we’ll post them on our blog!

For more information on “Keep on Truckin’, ” see Nicole Herndon’s blog written before the event. Check out www.midamericamuseum.org for upcoming events in Hot Springs!

What happens to the space shuttle after it retires?

Hi guys! Clotilda BeGood here. I watched the last launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery at the Museum of Discovery last week and wondered to myself what will happen to the Discovery now that it is retired. So, I googled it and found out. I love the Internet!

Discovery is going to be on display at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. for you, me and everyone to see. But, before that, it is getting an “autopsy,” so NASA engineers will get to examine it and learn what they can one last time before it is off to retirement.

The Discovery crew and Discovery at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Image credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett March 9, 2011. For more images of the Space Shuttle from Nasa, click on this image.

Right now it is at Orbiter Processing Facility-2, a hangar at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The ship will go through a post-flight processing flow very much like it did after each of its previous 38 trips to space. The shuttle technicians will get to take parts out to study, save for new programs, and to make it safe for public display at the Smithsonian.

Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA’s associate administrator for space operations, said in an article that they can still learn a lot from the space shuttles. For example, they will get the chance to study the hydraulics systems, which they haven’t really had the chance to look at while the shuttle was intact. What they learn will help the engineers produce the next generation of vehicles.

Discovery and its six crew members touched down on March 9, marking the end of Discovery’s 39th and final spaceflight. You can watch a video of the historic launch, which took place on Feb. 24, 2011.

Check out these games and learn all about the Space Shuttle at the same time! I found them on Nasa’s website:

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/playandlearn/shuttle-mission-games.html#b

For more information on the space shuttle and its “autopsy,” check out these links:

http://www.space.com/11131-space-shuttle-discovery-autopsy-smithsonian.html

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts133/launch/sts133overview.html

We’re not in Kansas anymore… make your own twister-in-a-bottle!

I grew up in St. Louis, and was no stranger to tornados. To me they had mystical powers, knocking a roof off of one house, leaving another house unscathed, and a third ripped all apart. Whenever it would rain my eyes would be up in the clouds, waiting for one to spiral out and touch ground. I never saw an actual tornado, or even heard one, although I did see a lot of dust devils and a waterspout once. I had a healthy fear of tornados, and luckily, in St. Louis, houses have basements so there is somewhere comfortable to go.

See how a tornado forms and breaks apart at the Tornado exhibit

The tornado vortex is one of many types of vortices that occur in our atmosphere. Hurricanes, frontal rainstorms, waterspouts, and “dust devils” are other examples of atmospheric vortices. Air vortices occur in the air around you all the time, revealing themselves only when they capture something you can see. For instance, when you see leaves whirling around on a sidewalk, an air vortex is present.

I never knew the science behind the tornado. What I did know I learned from movies like The Wizard of Oz, Twister, and the local weatherman. At one of the more popular exhibits purchased by the Arkansas Discovery Network for the Good Vibrations collection, you can learn about how the tornado cloud forms and see a mini-twister for yourself.

At the Tornado exhibit, a large mist generator, fans and a carefully-shaped structure produce the tornado you see. Random air currents cause both the creation of the tornado and its temporary cessation. This “tornado” is chaotic and unpredictable much of the time; wandering off the source of the mist, slipping out of the grasp of the shearing winds and presenting a delightful and ever-changing image. The four vertical aluminum tubes lining the sides have holes blowing air. You can blow at the tornado or pass your hand through it, and notice what it does; sometimes it takes a while for the tornado to form again.

Questions for thought (answer them in the comments section and share your knowledge!):

• What causes tornadoes to form?
• Which direction do tornadoes in the Northern Hemisphere spin? Do they all travel in the same direction once on the ground?
• Does the eye of the tornado have a high pressure or a low pressure? Why?
• What wind speed is considered a tornado? What is the scale used to rate the strength of a tornado?

Here’s your chance to make your own “Tornado in a Bottle.”

Materials:

• Two 2-liter soda bottles
• A Tornado Tube™ plastic connector (available from science museums, science stores, novelty stores, and some scientific supply companies). Or, make your own using a washer with a 3/8 inch (9.5 mm) hole and electrical tape
• Optional: Small dropper bottle of food coloring and/or bits of paper

Make your own "Tornado in a Bottle"

Fill one of the soda bottles about two-thirds full of water. Add a little food coloring or paper bits to the water. Screw the bottles onto both ends of the plastic connector. (CAUTION: Do not screw the connector on too tightly!) Or you can tape the bottles together with the washer between them.

Place the bottles on a table with the filled bottle on top. Watch the water slowly drip down into the lower bottle as air bubbles up into the top. Rapidly rotate the bottles in a circle a few times and stop. Observe the formation of a funnel-shaped vortex as the bottle drains. Also, notice the flow of the water as it empties into the lower bottle.

You can make the vortex with a single bottle by twirling the bottle and holding it over a water basin or the ground to drain, but you lose the water and have to refill the bottle each time you use it.

What happens when you pull the drain after taking a bath? Which direction does the water flow down the drain? What other natural vortices have you seen?

For more details on this activity, go to www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/vortex/

Go to www.fema.gov/kids/tornado.htm for more info on tornados and how to stay safe.

The tornado exhibit is currently at the Museum of Discovery for a few more weeks, before it travels to Mid-America Science Museum for an indefinite stay.

Watch this video footage from FEMA kids:

Can you feel the heat? Not only can you feel it, you can see it…

Have you been to one of our partner museums when the Heat Camera was there? It is definitely a crowd favorite, and it’s fun to watch people discover things about their body they didn’t know.

At the Heat Camera, you stand in front of the screen and see an infrared image of yourself on the screen. The camera is sensitive to infrared light and picks up the heat emitted by your body, and displays this heat as a color image on the large screen.

Warmer objects emit more infrared light than cooler ones. Different parts of your body are often different temperatures, as revealed by the camera.

Check out this video of the Heat Camera in action, then try some at-home activities!

Katie McManners wrote a Museum of Discovery blog entry about this moment she captured at the Heat Camera:

Try these activities and you will “see” heat.

Materials

• Smooth, solid surface to receive heat from hands
• Water and/or lotion
• Stove or microwave oven (optional)

Rub a small amount of water or lotion on your hands to make them slightly moist. Quickly rub your hands together to create friction. Place both hands palms downward onto the smooth, flat surface. Hold them there for at least 30 seconds. Move your hands; do you see any evidence of change where they were?

Gently move your hand across the surface. See if you can tell where your hands were originally placed. Were you able to see the original location or did you locate it by feel? Remember you can not see infrared waves.

Next, you will need a heat source such as a stove or microwave oven (adult supervision is required). Carefully pour very hot water into a glass or ceramic cup. Allow the cup to absorb the heat from the water.

Place the hot cup of water into the cool air of the refrigerator. Examine the air surrounding the cup. Are you able to see the waves coming from the hot cup? If these waves were able to increase their frequencies enough they would actually glow and become visible.

Because humans are warm-blooded, they give off invisible heat waves. In the human body, specific areas where there is increased blood flow tend to be warm. The warmer the area, the brighter the color image in infrared. Different tissues handle blood flow at different rates.

By using infrared cameras like the Heat Camera, doctors can determine if specific organs are working properly. The police and the military also use them for different jobs. Searching for people or warm-blooded animals is made easier by using infrared scopes or cameras.

Satellites orbiting in space can monitor herds of cattle, analyze ocean water or river flow and observe surface features on Earth using infrared waves. French fries at most fast-food locations are kept warm by lamps that are mostly infrared lamps.

Questions for thought:

• Is your hair colder than your forehead? Why?
• If you put your hand on your cheek, would your cheek get darker or lighter on the screen at the Heat Camera? Why?
• Who’s the coldest person in your group? (You can figure this out by standing in a line holding hands with the people next to you. Whoever has the warmer hands drop out, then whoever is left will hold hands. Eliminate the warmer hands until you have the coldest person in the room!)
• Do you know why some people are warmer than others?
• What would happen to your image if you walk around the room quickly and then stand in front of the Heat Camera?
• How could this type of image help doctors look for medical conditions where blood flow is studied?

Write your answers in the comment section below! Or if you have questions, ask in the comments and we will get an educator to find the right answer for you!

The Heat Camera is currently at the Museum of Discovery, but will shortly be heading to Mid-America Science Museum.

A siren’s call so irresistible, I just had to blog

I have, for some weeks now, heard a gentle siren’s call. It whispers in my ear, “If you write it, they will read it.” It beckons me to my computer with a sound, not unlike… well, whining. And the strange part is that it sounds a lot like Linda Meyers.

So, here you are Linda, I’m trying to write a blog.

When you start writing, it’s a good idea to start out with an outline. Mine looks like this…

1. Blog
2. Introductory joke
3. Serious statement
4. Ummmm…

Joel and company moving Backyard Science to the delivery truck.

As you can see, I haven’t gotten far. But I want to write a blog. Because I want everyone to know how cool it is to work in a museum.  Because working in a museum is awesome! I am surrounded on a daily basis by beautiful and fascinating things. I get to talk to people all day long that are so smart…”How smart are they?” They are so smart, that they work in a museum!

We all do really important and wonderful work. We create the exhibits that inspire future generations to become statesmen, scientists, doctors and most importantly, teachers. Speaking of teachers, we teach the classes that motivate children to go home and tell their moms and dads and whoever else will listen, “Hey! Guess what I learned at (insert your museum’s name here) today! I think that may have been a run-on sentence. If I had an English teacher here they could tell me!

There are people, who work in a museum, whose job is to tell everyone how great a museum is. “I’m just doing it as a hobby, I’m not a professional.”  They “develop” the means to help a museum grow and prosper so that it can fulfill its mission.

We have folks who coordinate all the visitors. Schools on field trips, children’s homes and hospitals, some museums even “reach out” to the public by sending teachers and exhibits beyond the walls of the museum itself. There are even museums on wheels! Wow! There are even “Museums Without Walls.” Don’t believe me? Look it up.

Not only can Joel keep the museum running, he decorates a mean mini-cake too!

We have meeters and greeters and edu-tainers. Some museums are like a three ring circus of education! Some museums are, literally, circus museums! How cool is that!? There are even groups of museums that work together to coordinate events and activities across regions and states.

We have people who run different departments in a museum. We even have people who take on the responsibility of running the whole enchilada! “Enchilada, in this case, is a metaphor, I mean, of course museum.” “Although… I am sure there are people whose job is to actually run the enchiladas.” Because some museums serve enchiladas…  I digress.

Some of the most important people working in a museum aren’t employed by the museum. Is that a riddle? No, they’re called volunteers! Volunteers can be girls and boys of any age, that’s right YOU can be a volunteer! All you need to be is excited about your museum! And it is YOUR museum, by the way. Because museums are there for you! So, volunteer! It’s the right thing to do! Do your part! Make a difference! Change the world! “No pressure…”

Some folks can’t give their time so they give us funding instead. These people are usually successful, intelligent, insightful, beautiful/ handsome pillars of the community. In other words, folks like you and me. That’s right, I donate to my museum and you can too! YOU can donate money and materials and make it possible for museums to carry on with their important missions. This funding helps to create programs for education. It gives us capital to expand and grow or just to fix things that need to be repaired, renewed or updated. Your donation can help to build a new museum from the ground up!

I come to work every day and know that I am doing something great. I get to spend the day in a museum!  I get to teach kids, I get to be a kid! I meet new people and they tell me all the things they love about  THEIR MUSEUM! If you haven’t visited your museum lately, I suggest you do. Because, you are missing out.

Yeah! Working in a museum is so awesome!

Anyway… Sorry I couldn’t come up with something to blog about. But when I do, it will be really cool and have awesome hyperlinks and stuff like that.

I guess Linda will just have to keep nagging me until I do it. Oh well, maybe next week.

Chemistry… A (scientific) method to my madness!

Hi loyal minions! As you may have noticed I am writing to you on Wednesday and not on my normal Friday time slot. This is all part of my plan for World and Universe domination. Start with the days and go from there. Also, I just couldn’t wait to say hi! I’m glad you all liked my cousin, Clotilda BeGood, and her blog last week! While we may have different views on  things she is still family and therefore I will allow her to come back and share her own experiences, as well as other cool engineering careers!

Dr. NoGood's Far Out Follicle Treatment for Cosmically Cranky Hair!

Today, I thought I’d talk a little bit about Chemistry. You may be performing Chemical experiments everyday and not even know it! Do you like mixing things up and seeing what you get? That’s how my hair gel came to be. I took off one day on my quest to take over the universe, and I was in my lab mixing some ingredients in my laboratory, conducting different experiments and WaaLaa! Dr. NoGood’s Far Out Follicle Treatment for Cosmically Cranky Hair was born. Now since I am a genius scientist I used something called the Scientific Method. While all you minions may accidentally be experimenting with Chemistry every day I am much more advanced and do things with a plan!

It’s very important before you do any experiment that you know the Scientific Method. Do you know the steps?

1. State the Problem: What do you want to find out? What is the goal of the experiment? Look at your problem and express it as a question. Be sure to make the problem as specific as possible.
2. Hypothesize: What do you think is the cause of your problem? Develop a logical answer to your problem; this will become your hypothesis. Your answer should include one explanation for the cause to your problem.
3. Plan Your Experiment: The goal of any experiment is to test a hypothesis. Determine your variable and control; then write a clear step-by-step procedure so that anyone can repeat the process of the experiment. Being able to repeat the experiment is key.
4. Make a Prediction: Using your hypothesis, make and record a prediction about the outcome of your experiment.
5. Gather and Organize Data: Determine what kinds of data you will collect. Will it be measurements, observations, or estimates? Will you use tables, graphs, or drawings to organize this data?
6. Analyze Data: Once you have collected your data, determine if you see any trends or patterns. Does the data support your hypothesis? Do you still need to collect additional information.
7. Conclude: Use your data to state your conclusion. Your data should either support your conclusion or lead you to another hypothesis. Have any new questions or problems developed?

(Info on the Scientific Method from http://www.brighthub.com/education/k-12/articles/23011.aspx)

Here is a video that mixes two of my favorite things… science and grooovy music. It will help you remember the steps in the Scientific Method!

Now that you know the Scientific Method, you can see that making hair gel isn’t as easy as it may seem. And even when you use the Scientific Method, you can come up with unexpected surprises. So you must always be safe! Next time, I’ll tell you about some of my unexpected surprises so you can learn from my… errr… experience!

Have you ever wanted to make a cloud? With Cloud Rings, you can!

One of the most popular exhibits at the Museum of Discovery is Arkansas Discovery Network’s Cloud Rings. It is a lot of fun to see how high your cloud can go, and equally fun for me to see kids, adults, whomever, working together to make the rings. As a photographer, the Cloud Rings is one of my favorite photo opps in the museum. I have stood at the top of the stairs many many times, looking down on the exhibit, trying time after time to get the perfect shot.

This very popular exhibit teaches visitors (unknowingly!) about whirlpools, smoke rings, and hurricanes, all vortices (plural for vortex).

How does it work? You push down on the metal plate to force a stream of fog through the hole in the center. Friction between the plate’s edge and the fog flowing through the hole creates a swirling pattern known as a vortex. This exhibit uses a mist generator and a large rubber membrane with a hole in the middle to launch a ring of vapor up as far as the ceiling will allow.

Ask these questions as you are watching the exhibit:

Why does the cloud ring stay together so long after leaving the chamber? Why does it finally fall apart?

How is the cloud ring similar to the dust swirls created when a car travels on a dusty road?

What conditions are best for seeing cloud rings — warm air entering a pocket of cool air or cool air entering a pocket of warm air?

Why can you see your breath on a cool morning but not on a warm day?

The density difference between the surrounding air and the cloud itself helps hold the cloud ring together. Since cool air is more dense, it is easier to see clouds as the warm wet air meets the cool dry air.

A vortex (what you see raising up to the ceiling in this exhibit) is a mass of liquid or gas with a whirling, circular motion. Whirlpools, smoke rings, and hurricanes are all vortices (plural for vortex). They can take different shapes, depending on what they’re made of and the forces that create them.

Mount Etna, an active volcano in Italy, makes enormous smoke rings 650 feet in diameter that can last up to 10 minutes. Smoke rings are formed around a volcano by the local upward convection of air that is caused by the eruptive column. When a volcano explodes, there is a strong updraft all around the volcano that draws in air. If this air is humid, it will form a smoke ring around the volcano. Take a look at this video of Mount Etna’s could rings; I’ve never seen anything like it and watched in awe.

Learn a little bit about cloud formation and simulate one for yourself with this at-home activity! (With parent supervision, of course!)

Materials:

• Dry baby powder
• Balloon
• Solid plastic tub (butter tub, yogurt container)
• Rubber bands or strong tape
• Sharp scissors

Please follow safety precautions. Avoid breathing the powder. Be careful with sharp objects.

Carefully cut a dime-sized hole in the center of the bottom of the tub, making sure the edges are smooth. Open the balloon and stretch it across the top of the tub. Secure it in place with rubber bands or tape so that no air escapes around the edges. Gently shake a small amount of the powder into the tub so that it lines the inside surface of the balloon. Hold the container balloon-side downward. Pinch the center of the balloon and pull downward. Quickly release the balloon to produce a small cloud of powder coming from the hole in the container. (Sometimes a quick snap upward on the balloon produces the desired result.) Observe the direction and speed of the cloud. How is it different than the surrounding air? What gives the cloud its force?

(This activity can be done using dry ice instead of powder to produce the cloud, but it is not recommended with small children.)

Thanks for the Thanks!

Derrick and I (Thomas) have many different kinds of tasks while on and off the road that keep The Race for Planet X mobile museum functioning. We have to deal with the logistics of scheduling, maintaining the truck, and keeping the exhibits working to name a few. With the multiple elements we have to keep up with, we sometimes lose perspective on the impact the truck has on the thousands of kids we visit.

Thank you cards like this help us appreciate the impact we're having across the state!

The sixth grade class at Hazen Elementary went through the mobile museum earlier this school semester and decided to take the time and effort to show us how much our visit meant to them. Not only did we get a traditional thank you card from the teacher, but we also received dozens of personally designed and created thank you cards from the students.

Originality and creativeness was truly inspiring and these kids would put me to shame in an art contest. We really enjoyed looking through them all and seeing what the students had to say about their experience.

To see our album of Thank You cards, click one of the images!

Many of them wrote about their favorite exhibits. The gesture of thanks from the sixth grade at Hazen Elementary helps Derrick and myself keep perspective on what we do and the unique experience we provide to kids throughout Arkansas. Now if this frigid weather would just clear up we could get back out there!

Take a look at some more very creative, very fun Thank You cards from past explorers!

Women Who Engineer History

Hi everyone! I’m Clotilda BeGood,  Cornelius’ cousin. This week is National Engineering Week so the folks at the Arkansas Discovery Network asked me to introduce some exemplary women in the world of engineering.

First I thought I’d explain a bit about what engineering is. It is such an incredibly broad field and involves taking concepts from math and science to create things – anything from a new package for your gum to wind turbines. Engineering is a huge field, encompassing a wide range of industries. You may not even realize an engineer has been to work, because most of their work is behind the scenes.

Buechley's shirt lights up!

Some very interesting women have made a career out of engineering. One of them, Leah Buechley, is featured in the Network’s exhibit, Science & Art. She blends her knowledge of electronics, programming and sewing to engineer e-textiles that blink, flash and buzz. (check out her shirt with blinking lights!) You can learn more about Leah Buechley next week in a “Meet the Artists” blog post, or at http://hlt.media.mit.edu/:.

Next up is Yvonne Brill. She is an Aerospace Consultant (how cool would that be?!). She began her career in 1945, as a rocket propellant chemist on a project to design and launch an unmanned, Earth-orbiting satellite. Later, she developed the concept for a new rocket engine — an electrothermal hydrazine thruster. She was the only woman of technology at the time working in rocket propulsion systems. She has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and a master’s in chemistry, so if you enjoy either of those subjects, and are intrigued with space travel, you may be able to follow in her footsteps. Watch this video and hear Brill’s overview of part of her unique and fascinating career.

 

Heidi Koschwanez, Biomedical Engineer

Biomedical Engineer Heidi Koschwanez designs experiments to solve a real-life medical problem – how to prevent the body from rejecting glucose sensors so they can last in the body longer than a few days. Glucose sensors are little machines that figure out how much sugar (also called glucose) is in your blood.  People with diabetes need to check what their blood sugar is often (3-4 times a day) so they don’t get sick.  These little sensors help make checking their blood sugar easy. Find out more about her and other great women engineers at www.engineeringgirl.org!I hope you enjoy reading about these and other women in engineering. I’ll come back again to talk to you more about me and what great fun engineering can be.

Swimming with Sharks

She really is very friendly.

So it has been over a month since my last blog entry. You may have heard that if a shark stops swimming it may die? Well I have felt kind of like that lately, not the dying part, but the not being able to slow down part. Don’t get me wrong, I am not complaining at all. It’s the hectic excitement/controlled chaos of the museum world that makes the job fun. So the last month and a half have been fairly busy around here. If you follow me on Twitter (ExhibitsMan) you may have heard about some of it. If you are not one of my massive following of 28 people then let me fill you in.

Clay helping to setup Crime Lab Detective for maintenance. Better be careful because our warehouse is full of dangerous things.

On December 27^th, 2010, Crime Lab Detective finished its run at the Hjemkomst Center in Minnesota and made its way home to Little Rock for a quick inspection and update before leaving again on January 29^th for ExpERIEnce Children’s Museum in Erie, PA from February 14^th until May 8^th.

Football also returned to Little Rock this month after a yearlong run at Rocky Mount Children’s Museum in North Carolina. Parts of it will be on display at MOD in the coming weeks while it undergoes maintenance before heading out in May to the Institute of Texan Cultures in San Antonio. Also during the month of January, Science & Art moved from the Art and Science Center of Southeast Arkansas to Mid-America Science Museum. I also just returned from Texarkana where I was getting Mystery of the Mayan Medallion all set to head out to Grey Roots Museum in Owen’s Sound, Canada, but I think that maybe material for another blog entry in the  future.

And just a few days ago on February 8^th, Predators was moved back into the Museum of Discovery, where it will be on display through March. While on display it will also be updated and revamped as a smaller exhibit; but do not worry, the Great White Shark and Raptor will still be starring.

Remember it is not the one you see its the other two raptors you didn't even know were there.

Those are just a few of the big events going on within my traveling exhibit world. There is always day-to-day craziness to keep things interesting. Luckily, on occasion, I have the company of Dr. NoGood when I travel, such as the other day to Mid-America Science Museum to check in on our Science & Art and Arkansas Rocks! exhibits. (You can read Dr. NoGood’s recent blog entry about this adventure,  “No hot weather in Hot Springs, but plenty of cool exhibits!” and see some pictures as well.

All this has been going on against the backdrop of great change at the Museum of Discovery. The old Tech Park has begun to be demolished making way for the new grand entry. Even with all this going on I was somehow able to edit and star in my first film. If you missed it you can find it here on our YouTube channel! You will laugh, you will cry and you will mainly think we have too much time on our hands. But this is not true! I was up way into the night putting that together at home.

The beginning of a new year is always a little hectic but this year promises some amazing things. Stay tuned by following me on Twitter, or right here on my Arkansas Discovery Network blog page or check out where our exhibits are at discoverytravelingexhibits.org. I may even be developing a few more film projects.