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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 in exceptional

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ways
Discovery Science Center President Joe

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Adams and Community member Kate Upton
travel to Washington from Santa Ana

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California to receive the national medal
and spoke to imls about how the museum

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impacts the community so the science
center is about inspiring the Youth of

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today to be able to tackle the
challenges and advances of tomorrow

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through understanding science and what I
mean by that is to have Hands-On

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exploration of the world around us and
then to to be able to give the youth

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like Kate the the opportunities and the
the excitement to say there's a whole

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lot
to go forward to in this world that we

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need to know and that you can be a part
of so we're not about collections we're

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about Hands-On experiences in dissecting
science and the world around us so that

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our our audiences can understand the
world better and have a better life

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going forward
one of the things that we do that's

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unique about the science center is that
we change the focus every month to be

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specific to what the students need to
learn uh per grade level so and what I

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mean by that is that each month we
change the science center up to focus on

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a grade and we say what do these
students need to know that if you're in

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first grade and so we there's 20
different topics within science

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standards and we that the teachers are
teaching in the classroom and so we

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bring in and add demonstrations to help
explain all those Concepts so that you

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can further
understand and and and be able to

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achieve the objectives that the state
wants each grade level to to uh acquire

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I grew up with the science center
actually I went there when I was in

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elementary school and I experienced
everything there was to experience and

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then when I was in high school and I
needed volunteering experience for

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college I went and volunteered there I
did member events there I helped to

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manage some of the other volunteers due
to my familiarity with the science

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center and then when I was in college
and I needed a summer job I worked there

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and now I talk to people at events about
how the science center has impacted My

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Life by helping to keep my interest in
science alive because I I believe most

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kids are natural born scientists and I
definitely was so interested and curious

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about the world around them that going
to the Science Center helped to nurture

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and preserve that interest and you look
at that that curiosity is within us all

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now how do you continue to inspire that
Curiosity to be able to to to be a part

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of your entire life journey and that's
what the science center can do and

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that's what we have been doing I'm a
graduate student now in getting my PhD

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in chemistry from the California
Institute of Technology

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and I have to say that the science
center helped to keep me on that path

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help to keep me interested because I
knew that there were people who were

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interested in My Success who were
engaged with me and who

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um knew that told me that I could do
science all those years told me that I

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could do it America is great because we
are we're many things but it is also

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because we're creative and that we
continue to have no bounds to allow us

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to explore our world around us to let us
be able to to encourage more people from

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all types to be able to get out there
and to help us you know Advance the

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world of science and the world around us
and the know-how and take that and break

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it down to the community so we want to
inspire kids to be those scientists and

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the designers and engineers and be
creative and lead us well my PhD is

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actually an astrochemistry that's my
area of research it involves Titan one

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of Saturn's moons which is of Interest
due to the fact that it's the only solid

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body in the outer solar system with a
dense atmosphere this atmosphere is

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composed of 95 nitrogen and five percent
methane making it very similar to how

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Earth may have been back when Earth was
just starting to get formed

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so Titan presents an interesting
opportunity to possibly study the early

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stages of evolution of life on Earth
which the second half is I'm working on

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some instruments for a possible mission
to Titan in the future and

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um so I'm in the early stages of that
and I'm working with JPL on a lot of

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those projects
somebody working in NASA coming up with

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like the latest of where we're going to
be going in the future and maybe where

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does how does this whole earth started
in evolution I mean wow definitely the

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science center we we want to take
science make it friendly to we might to

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all genders and all ethnicities and we
want to say look the science is around

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you and uh and we want to inspire you to
kind of go after it challenge it explore

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it move us forward and I'm really proud
of Kate and and and knowing of your

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success over the years and uh the and
how you've been able to be able to take

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your your beginning uh continued it
through and now you're doing some really

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high level research out there I you know
definitely bodes well for I think our

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community and uh as we look and say hey
look this is where where you can go