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the National Medal for Museum and
Library Services is the nation's highest

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honor for libraries and museums that are
serving their communities and

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exceptional ways Pacific Science Center
Director Bryce Seidel and community

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member andrea rose nichols traveled to
Washington DC from Seattle Washington to

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receive the National Medal and spoke to
IMLS about how the museum impacts the

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community Pacific Science Center is the
first institution to open its doors from

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day one as a science that our Science
Center is a place that is a non

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collections based institution dedicated
to helping people learn about the

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wonders of science through interactive
inquiry based learning the mission is is

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quite straightforward but not
necessarily easy to do the mission is to

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inspire lifelong interest in science
math and technology the function of that

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is really to help people understand how
exciting science can be in math can be

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without being intimidating we live in a
society where people's experiences in

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school often are not good in particular
in the early years and they they feel

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they can't do science where in reality
science is really part of our culture

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it's part of our life so the role of
Science Center's is to some fair degree

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to help young people imagine what they
could be when they're older and to help

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older people keep up with what's
happening in the world of science with a

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rapid rapid rate of change we have
discovery core is a program in which we

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bring in teens high school age to the
science center they begin as volunteers

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but many are able to quickly move on to
the payroll we have about 80 teens from

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43 high schools involved in the program
now many of them would be what you would

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consider to be kids from at-risk
communities from underserved communities

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I began volunteering in August of 2007
with a discovery core program it was the

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summer before my junior year you can
start from the summer before your

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freshman year all the way up to your
senior year and stay until you graduate

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from high school which is really unique
for Team Development Program and through

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the course of it you get to work on the
floor teaching

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visitors of different ages all about
science and things that you're

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interested in as well as things that
they're interested in there's also a lot

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of extra opportunities like workshops
and internships you can work with

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different departments in the Science
Center like the animal care department

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or guest services or the planetarium
just to get a really broad idea of what

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science is about and how the teens can
actually fit into science first thing we

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do is teach them how to presented some
science and as they get better at it

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they can learn more topics and work from
a cart or ultimately as andrea is done

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become presenting the stage shows of the
sorts of things but really what we're

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also doing is we're teaching them how to
present themselves when I started I was

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really shy I was outgoing but only with
really close people I was really not

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very fond of strangers or starting
conversations with people I didn't know

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and discovery core actually helped me
become more confident in myself and my

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ability to talk to people they start you
out by having you shadow people who are

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really good at what they do and know how
to teach visitors and talk about certain

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topics and then they expand it from
there you go from one on one

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conversations and when you feel
comfortable with that you get to start

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presenting activities and to larger
groups and then as you develop and

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progress you can go to larger and larger
groups and become more and more

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confident and for me it was public
speaking that I really gained my

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confidence in I still work at the
Science Center I'm in the adult science

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interpretation program which is a lot
like discovery core but we have a couple

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more things that were able to do like
LiveScience presentations it's what I do

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I actually do a live snake show which is
completely different than when I started

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I didn't like reptiles I didn't like
public speaking now I go in front of

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groups of about 200 people present
snakes and prevent live science

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demonstrations about chemistry and all
these different topics it turns out to

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provide life-changing experiences many
many of the kids had come in become

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fascinated with science and they choose
to go on to college when they hadn't

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even imagined going to college it's
absolutely a remarkable program I'm so

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so
proud of what the kids that come through

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that program do