[EMA-ARRL] Fwd: Museum of Science comment card response

[Arthur N1NHZ]

My fellow Hams:
       Please consider the forwarded email below. If you can be of help 
here with relevant information please reply to her inquiry. You can 
minimize the response time to Ms Ruiz by emailing her 
directly  at:  mailto:truiz@mos.org
--  Thank you, Arthur  N1NHZ, 73

>Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 18:32:34 -0400
>From: Tania Ruiz <truiz@mos.org>
>Reply-To: truiz@mos.org
>Organization: Boston Museum of Science
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>Subject: Museum of Science comment card response
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>Greetings!
>
>I'm really not sure who to write to; I hope you might be able to help me. 
>I'm an employee here at the Museum of Science, Boston, and I read a 
>comment card from a member of your organization who was disappointed that 
>an offer for our "space exhibits" was "tentatively refused because it was 
>irrelevant to the exhibit." I am going to assume this was referring to our 
>International Space Station exhibit, which I curate. We also received 
>another comment card from someone saying that we should "Look into amateur 
>radio and the space program."
>
>I sincerely want to communicate with someone about this, because although 
>this is my exhibit, I do not recall being the one approached with the 
>offer. I want your organization to know that I am very aware of the ARISS 
>project, and I have given live presentations including information and 
>imagery about the ARISS program on stage in the last year here at the 
>Museum to alert visitors of how super a program ARISS is. I'd love to help 
>people and kids get more involved with it, so if your club still wants to 
>give us materials, I'd use them on stage! It is true, we do have very 
>limited floor space in our area, and so we do have to focus our _exhibit_ 
>materials to a narrow story line. However, that does not preclude us from 
>using materials _not on exhibit_ as cool props in our demonstrations!
>
>The ISS exhibit is slated for downgrade this summer to make room for 
>another mini-exhibit (floor space issue again), but the process does 
>include re-evaluating the touchscreen content. As a replacement story, I 
>think I may include a written piece about ARISS to let people read that 
>they can communicate with the astronauts or at least listen in on their calls!
>
>Please let me know if you or someone in your organization would like to 
>dialog with me further about helping me enhance the ISS exhibit or the ISS 
>presentations.
>
>Most sincerely,
>Tania Ruiz
>--
>Earth and Space Sciences Education Associate
>Current Science & Technology Center
>Museum of Science, Boston

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