Boy, we had a summer movie for you! We had food trucks, hands-on activities, and an outdoor screening of the original Westworld. Before Ed Harris was The Man in Black, Yul Brynner was The Gunslinger in Michael Crichton’s 1973 sci-fi/western hybrid about a futuristic theme park populated by androids. Starting at 7:30pm people went inside …
In May 2018, LabX staff traveled to Cypress, TX to bring the Extreme Event game to science and social studies teachers of the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District (CFISD). CFISD’s mission is to maximize every student’s potential through rigorous and relevant learning experiences preparing students to be 21st-century global leaders. It carries out this mission in …
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Our experiences shape how we view the world, including our scientific understanding of it. So what happened when two improv comedy troupes – one made up of self-proclaimed science nerds and scientists, and the other an all-female identifying group from Washington Improv Theater – interpret the same audience suggestions? A night of comedy! LabX took …
Extreme Event is an in-person role-playing game that gives participants a taste of what it takes to build community resilience in the face of disaster. In this webinar we hear from those who have implemented the Extreme Event game as part of programming with a variety of audiences and learn how they’ve customized the experience …
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In March 2018, LabX and the Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences (CPNAS) partnered with Museum Hack for a whirlwind workshop. Staff had 48-hours to master the Museum Hack method of storytelling, and then put together a public program for over 100 participants! The end result of our collective efforts was Night …
