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Look who is reading The Hillwood Herald! The Exploratorium. Well done, everyone!

Exploratorium Turns 40

To celebrate its grand opening 40 years ago, the Exploratorium will host special events for free admission all day this coming Saturday, Nov.7th.

The Exporatorium started when famous physicist and professor Frank Oppenheimer founded it in 1969 to give people a hands-on experience of learning with a financial aid of $50,000 from the San Francisco Foundation. Since 1969, the Exploratorium has grown enormously, featuring hundreds of interesting exhibits.

Even before founding the museum, Oppenheimer was already world-renowned for his paticipation in the Manhattan Project and work with other important projects. In Oppenheimer's later years, he was awarded the Gugghenheim fellowship and went abroad to devote himself to physics, where he saw European science museums. He was inspired and wished to do the same in the United States. He got his wish.

by Brigette W.

40th Anniversary Celebration Weekend

This weekend is the 40th anniversary of the Exploratorium. The upper-graders went on a field trip to the Exploratorium last week.

This upcoming weekend the people who made all those amazing inventions we saw will actually be there. From 10.am to 5.pm there will be many bubble activities. You can also see someone do a trans dissection of a cow eye. At 11.am to 4.pm you can take a tour behind the scenes on History and art.

Here is a list of all the weekend events.



The above photos, from the Exploratorium, are pictures of the tactile dome inside in the light and outside. The tactile dome was a favorite of the field trip.

A Report on the City Hall Field Trip

Student Assignment: Irene

Write a report about the upper-graders' trip to both City Hall and the Exploratorium.

For the City Hall portion, link to the appropriate video and images.

For the Exploratorium story, link to the photos from the art project. Explain how you made these images.

If you have time, let's post your Wikipedia entry about Hillwood.

Outdoor Exploratorium

Student: Irene

Since 1969, the Exploratorium has merged science and fun with its hands-on collection; now, it brings that curatorial savvy outdoors, with 20 interactive exhibits that investigate everything from water and wind to sound and light. Bridge Thermometer demonstrates how the Golden Gate can gauge temperature; Tasting the Tides creates a bayside water fountain; and Corrosion Wedge reveals the secret life of historic waterfront buildings. The exhibit has been two years in the making, and it's guaranteed to teach you a thing or two about the phenomena right before your eyes.

Write an article about its outdoor exhibit.

If you finish early, please write two additional stories (they can be short):

• What happens in Hillwood in June.
• A story about the yearbook (encourage students to buy one)