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I'm Casey Wy I'm a fifth grade science
teacher at Hot Springs intermediate

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school and I'm representing Mid America
Science Museum like most kids in Hot

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Springs my connection to the museum
really started coming here with my

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family as a child but my true connection
really started the summer I turned 12

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and I was given the opportunity to join
their teen science volunteer program and

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after that I was hooked I came back for
the next four years just something about

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getting a behindth scenes view of all
the fun stuff that happened to the

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museum really made me realize that I
wanted to do something involving

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education with my life the resources and
the programming at the Museum impacted

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my life in more ways than I can imagine
I actually wouldn't have been a teacher

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without all the wonderful things that I
learned here all the confidence that I

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got all the skills that I learned and
most importantly all the memories that I

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made Aransas is a really interesting
Community with a lot of unexpected

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benefits it's kind of a small town but
it's got a lot of the things you in a

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big city and Mid America science museum
is definitely one of them it's a premier

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science attraction comparable to things
that you would find in much larger

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cities and yet it's accessible to kids
from smaller towns and rural areas and

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that really opens their Horizons to
things that they wouldn't normally get

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to see in other places I think one of my
favorite personal Milestones was during

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our Science Matters program now is when
we did a tour taking science experiments

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to different schools across the state of
Arkansas we came in there with our big

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box of science stuff and those kids I
thought their eyes were going to pop out

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of their heads all we did was unpack the
beers didn't even put anything in them

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just simple glass beers and they were
amazed oh my God we get to do real

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science and every week we came back for
five weeks in a row and we really became

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part of their Community part of their
family we'd come in and they'd spend the

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first five minutes telling us what they'
done the week before what they did over

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the weekend and really enjoyed bonding
with them and seeing how much they grew

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cuz at first day they were kind of
intimidated didn't really know what was

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going on wen't very comfortable with
this whole idea of science experiments

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but by that fifth week man they were
frogs and so many of them told me how

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interested they were in science now they
were even going home to their library

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and learning more stuff about science
winning this national award really makes

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me feel like Mid America science museum
is finally earning the respect that it

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deserves there's always been good
quality education here there's always

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been wonderful connections but now more
people are getting to notice it and

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getting to take advantage of it and I
think that's very important because now

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the museum is finally going to get the
resources to be able to see their

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mission fulfilled to the highest degree
it's only up to our imaginations how far

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they can take it