Education Initiative – Mission

As a National Historic Landmark, inspire people, particularly children, to learn and appreciate science and history that has impacted their daily lives

Content

• Existing InfoAge capabilities
• Target audiences
• Path Forward
• Benefit to InfoAge
• Benefit to Educators
• Challenges – Action Items

Existing InfoAge Capabilities

• Passive Museum Displays –
  • Artifacts – Displays of important technological developments from 1914 to present day
• History – The story of Camp Evans and its impact on our nation’s well being
• Interactive Museum Displays –
  • One-on-one and group interactions with museum historians
  • Hands-on displays
• Formal Presentations –
  • Speaker’s Bureau Presentations – Fifty presentations that are offered on-site or remotely (virtual)
  • InfoAge Space Exploration Center (ISEC)
  • InfoAge Lecture Series – Invited guests
• Classroom and Laboratory Space – Space Camp and Camp Invention

Target Audiences

• Elementary School STEM Programs – Asbury Park
• Middle School STEM programs – New Hanover
• High School STEM programs – Manasquan, Neptune, Jackson, Freehold, Ilan
• Home School STEM programs – Camp WOW
• Boy/Girl Scouts Merit Badges/Advancement
• Colleges and Universities – Princeton, Rensselaer Polytech., Yale, Brookdale Community College

Path Forward

• Expand Interactions with local schools
• Build on existing platforms
• Add programs to address science/technology areas not currently available on-site
• Recruit young people to become part of InfoAge

Benefit to InfoAge

• Fulfillment of InfoAge Mission
• Educating the public
• Improving Public Relations
• Ensuring Sustainability

Benefit to Educators

• Compliment/supplement curricula
• Provide historian/docent experiences
• Hands-on knowledge
• Student programs to enhance preparation for college – STEM

Challenges – Action Items

• Development and tracking of Projects –
  • Project plan format – deliverables
• Attracting individuals and groups to InfoAge
  • School and Scouts contacts
• Managing the interface with perspective participants
  • More face-to-face interactions
• Attracting appropriate staff to deliver
• Attracting seed funding

Specifics

• Improve Contacts with:
  • Monmouth College – Melissa Ziobro (Adj. Professor, Public History)
  • Brookdale – Daniel Lopez (STEM Institute)
  • Princeton – Dan Marlow (Professor, Physics)
  • Wall High School
  • Others – Manasquan High School
• Identify students
  • Train as historians
  • Create museum displays/presentations
  • Modernize displays
  • Bring new technologies to museum

More resources and information will be available as they are developed.