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The National Medal for Museum and Library
services is the nation’s highest honor for

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libraries and museums that are serving their
communities in exciting ways.

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EdVenture Children’s Museum director Catherine
Wilson Horne and community member Noah Charles

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Aitchison Adams and his mom, Mary Aitchison
traveled to Washington to receive the national

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medal and spoke to IMLS about how the museum
impacts the community.

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Catherine Wilson Horne: EdVenture made a commitment
to health education when we opened in 2003.

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And then by the mid-aughts, we were engaged
in planning, educational activities and family

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opportunities around the topic of health.

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And so we wanted to do something that was
meaningful and relevant to our community.

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And we found that the public didn’t understand
the connection between their physical activity,

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the nutrition that they put on their table
everyday and overall health education in terms

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of science and the human body.

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Well we’ve just recently opened a brand
new exhibit known as body detectives.

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And body detectives brings the science of
the human body and particularly the prevention

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of chronic disease into a really realistic
and engaging way to understand DNA, to explore

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how medicines get created, how we balance
surgery versus preventative health and it’s

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a whole lot of fun.

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Mary Aitchison: My son Noah has always loved
his days at EdVenture, starting when he was

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a toddler and would come into my backyard
just fully engage and explore all the activities.

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I think they just always had such lure.

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It continues to, even as an eight year old
now he walks in and then he is you know, just

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fully engaged.

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Noah Charles Aitchison Adams: If you look
straight you know, you can see that big Eddie

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guy, he is this 50 foot high monster.

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Well I think its supposed to be like a real
person and you can climb up his backbone,

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it takes you, if you keep on going it will
take you to the head which is the brain, except

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the skull is taken out and if you look up
you can see the brain and the inside of the

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eyeballs which is kind of creepy.

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There will be like exits anywhere around the
back and then there are some tubes where you

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can crawl to the bottom which is about his
digestive system area and then there is one

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that goes about from the stomach down to the
digestive system there is a tube that you

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can crawl down in to.

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Catherine Wilson Horne: Eddie is the signature
exhibit of EdVenture, and he truly is the

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first thing you see when you walk in the door.

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On the back side of Eddie and inside of Eddie
there are four floors of organs which do start

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at the top with the brain and go all the way
down through the heart, the stomach, the intestines

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and there is a 30 foot spinal column that
you do climb up or down.

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And he is a signature exhibit of the museum
and he is certainly the star of the show when

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it comes to health education at EdVenture.
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