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Expolab
Participatory exhibits exploring the evolution of exibitions themselves - with subtopics of audiovisual arts, communication, education,
leisure, museology, programming.
Deadline for submission:
March 25, 2010
Awards offered:
Up to $1800.
Get creative:
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Participating museums:
Citilab Cornella
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Microchips
This topic is for exhibits about the evolution and abilities of silicon chips,
microprocessors, semiconductors and integrated circuits in general.
Deadline for submission:
Extended! Still open!
Awards offered:
Up to $1800.
Get creative:
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Participating museums:
The Tech Museum
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Program for the Future
This global challenge is an annual global search to find the best new
ways to collaborate. Entrants will develop a practical method, tool or
technology that connects people so
that they collectively act more intelligently.
Deadline for submission:
Feb. 08, 2010
Awards offered:
Up to $5000. USD per team
Get creative:
Click here to read more
Participating groups:
The Tech Museum, MIT Museum , Science Center Singapore, Citilab Barcelona, Global Women's Leadership Network, Future Talk,
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Water
Develop exhibits around the topic of water. This can include properties of water, states of water, the water cycle, water conservation, water as renewable energy source, and even art pieces related to water.
Deadline for submission:
Mid. 2010
Awards offered:
Up to $1800.
Get creative:
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Participating Museums:
Science Center Singapore
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Digital Arts - Film - Music - Games
This topic is a new opportunity to develop museum exhibits using the most advanced
interfaces available. Think about using technology such as surface displays, gestural interfaces,
augmented reality, RFID, and more. Use new interfaces to develop
exhibits that engage and educate visitors as creative interpreters of
our time, our place, and our new media.
Deadline for submission:
April 8, 2010
Awards offered:
Up to $1800.
Get creative:
Click here to read more
Participating museums:
The Tech Museum
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Health and Biotech
Museums worldwide are developing exhibits about health and biotech.
Whether you're an educator, museum professional, or hobbyist, your
input is needed to create interactive exhibits to inspire youth to
pursue science.
Deadline for submission:
Ongoing
Awards offered:
More info. in 2010
Get creative:
Click here to read more
Participating museums:
The Tech Museum
Also creating exhibits about health:
Pacific Science Center, Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem, Science Centre Delft / Tu Delft, Science Center of Iowa, Da Vinci Science Center
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Renewable Energy
Museums worldwide need exhibits about renewable energy technology. Use
your creativity to inspire the next generation of energy engineers
through interactive musuem exhibits.
Deadline for submission:
Ongoing
Awards offered:
More info in 2010
Get creative
Click here to read more
Participating museums:
The Tech Museum
Also creating exhibits about energy:
Science World, HR MacMillan Space Centre, Science Centre Delft / Tu Delft, Science Center of Iowa, Da Vinci Science Center
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Virtual and Online Exhibits
This is a special section for "virtual museum" exhibits which can only
be realized in virtual worlds or otherwise not realizable in physical
form.
Deadline for submission:
Ongoing
Awards offered:
None yet
Get creative:
Click here to read more
Participating museums:
The Tech Museum
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Basic Physics
Exhibits on the basic laws of physics. Simple interactives with memorable experiences and an "aha!" moment.
Deadline for submission:
Extended! Still open!
Awards offered:
Up to $1800.
Get creative:
Click here to read more
Participating museums:
The Tech Museum
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Develop an Exhibition for Your Museum:
The Tech Virtual is an "open
source" resource and collaborative design platform, to enable creative people (scientists, artists,
teachers, designers, museum professionals and more) design new museum
exhibits and content, using the most advanced collaborative methods
available. Museums of all kinds are welcome to join in this latest
innovation in exhibition development. Have your development team engage
with creative developers of diverse backgrounds and skills from all
over the globe. Design innovative exhibitions with aggressive
timelines. The Tech Virtual is a vital source of development tools and
talent for developing exhibitions in a cost effective way, while
obtaining priceless feedback during the design process. Contact us today to join as a member museum!
Resources you'll need:
Itemized "fill in the blank" and checklist for exhibit design:
http://thetechvirtual.org/projects/resources/list-of-exhibit-components
Get assistance with your project or apply your expertise to an existing project:
http://thetechvirtual.org/helpwanted
Software and other resources for realizing your vision:
http://thetechvirtual.org/projects/resources
You can find text versions of design and planning meetings at:
http://thetechvirtual.org/projects/meeting-transcripts/
Ongoing and Completed Exhibit Design Topics:
Technology Benefitting Humanity
These exhibits are related to laureates of The Tech Awards program (http://techawards.org).
Highlighting
innovations of global impact that have been selected over the last
seven years in the Tech Awards program. The early concept name of the
exhibition was "UcanTu". Each exhibit will showcase an award-winning
technology from one of the following categories: Health, Education,
Environment, Economic Development, and Equality.
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Participating museums:
The Tech Museum
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Virtual to-Real Test Zone Exhibits
This exhibition was the first created using The Tech Virtual
platform, and was installed at The Tech Museum in the Virtual Test Zone Gallery on June 4, 2008. Videos of the opening, along with more details about this innovative platform are available at: http://thetechvirtual.org/june-4-summit/keynotes-summit-on-digital-democracy-in-exhibit-design/.
These exhibits explore the science and technology behind art, film, and
music as well as exploring their creative processes. Some of the
exhibits may become part of the larger, "Creative Engines" exhibition
currenly being developed.
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Participating museums:
The Tech Museum
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Virtual Museum Exhibits
The Tech Museum in San Jose California developed a virtual extension in the virtual world of Second Life (tm) which opened in 2007. The project encompasses 2 functions - a virtual museum with interactive online exhibits (Visit The Tech in Second Life), and an exhibit development workshop (Visit the exhibit workshop) (Requires download if not already installed). Part of The Tech Virtual project, developed with a grant from The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The virtual museum houses over 20 interactive exhibits.
Click here to read more
Participating museums:
The Tech Museum - The Tech Virtual
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Design Challenges for Youth
Design a challenge for youth grades 5 through 12 that introduces and
reinforces the scientific process with a hands-on project geared to
solve a real-world problem. Your entry should suggest a real-world
problem and its likely solutions that could be built as prototypes by
students as their entry into the Tech Challenge competition.
Click here to read more
Participating museums:
The Tech Museum
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Other communities using The Tech Virtual platform:
De Anza College - Computers and the Internet in Society (CIS 2): http://thetechvirtual.org/community/
ICOM International Museums Day: http://thetechvirtual.org/museums/icom/
San Francisco State University DAI 627: http://thetechvirtual.org/projects/sfsu-dai-627-spring-2009/
Santa Clara University Global Fellows http://thetechvirtual.org/global-fellows/
Universite de Poitiers, Paris Course: "Heritage, New Technologies, and Tourism" (English translation)
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