[AANC Contacts] Never Lost – New Exploratorium Website About Polynesian Navigation

[Raphael Rosen]

March 3, 2010

Hi, Lynn.  I thought you might be interested in the following information
for April 2010.


1)    Never Lost – New Exploratorium Website About Polynesian Navigation
2)    Reading Sea and Sky – Polynesian Navigation Installation
3)    Open Make – A Program to Inspire Young Makers

Never Lost
New Exploratorium Website About Polynesian Navigation
English Version Launches April 1st; Hawaiian Version Launches May 1st
www.exploratorium.edu/neverlost

Never Lost explores ancient navigation techniques that nearly disappeared,
but are now experiencing a revival across Polynesia, especially in Hawaii.
Thousands of years ago Polynesians navigated by direct observation, relying
on clues from the sun, moon, and stars, as well as ocean swells, winds, and
wildlife, as they voyaged over open ocean settling islands across the
Pacific. Never Lost shares the story of this living tradition and charts
wayfinding practices that are still in use today.

Full Press Release: http://press.exploratorium.edu/never-lost-april-2010/

Reading Sea and Sky
Polynesian Navigation Installation
Webcast Studio
Tuesday, April 6 Through Sunday, May 9, 2010
In Conjunction with Never Lost – A New Exploratorium Website
www.exploratorium.edu/neverlost

Visitors to Reading Sea and Sky may find themselves stepping in and out of
time and place. A giant star compass representing those used in teaching
traditional Polynesian navigation techniques will extend across the Studio
floor, frequently submerged under video footage of waves or other footage to
be projected from above. A surround-sound system of speakers will play
sounds and stories recorded during a trip to Hawaii by the Exploratorium
team that created the companion Never Lost website.  In the meantime, video
recordings will fill the Webcast Studio screens with visual poems of the
islands.  This installation is included in the price of admission to the
Exploratorium.

Full Press Release:
http://press.exploratorium.edu/reading-sea-and-sky-april-2010/

Open MAKE: A Program to Inspire Young Makers
Saturday Series at Exploratorium
April 24, 2010
Meet the Makers (McBean Theatre) 11am-noon
In the Studio 12:30pm-3pm

Get ready to rev up your inner inventor. The Exploratorium hosts a series of
informal talks and activities designed to inspire young inventors and
introduce visitors to a long-standing Exploratorium tradition of tinkering.
Featuring different themes and guest speakers each month, Open MAKE: A
Program to Inspire Young Makers, will introduce visitors to a variety of
tinkering possibilities while encouraging middle and high school students to
realize their own inventions in time for this year’s Maker Faire, held at
the San Mateo County Event Center on May 22 and 23. Open MAKE, a project of
the Exploratorium’s Learning Studio, is included in the price of admission.

Full Press Release: http://press.exploratorium.edu/open-make-april-2010/

-- 
Raphael Rosen
Public Information Dept.
The Exploratorium
3601 Lyon St.
San Francisco, CA   94123
press.exploratorium.edu
Phone Contact: Leslie Patterson / (415) 561-0377
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