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Correction!....The phrase should be "Hands-On turns Minds On"...(without the
second hyphen between "minds" and "on")...Have a Good "Hearts-On, Hands-On,
Minds-On Day!

Cynthia Yao1/12/04 10:[log in to unmask]

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> I  have been reading with interest the comments regarding Hands-On and
> Minds-On...and recall that in 1978 when we were trying to name our new
> science center/children's museum and filling out the Incorporating papers -
> we had decided to name the museum, the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum...it was a
> very new word/concept that we all agreed on as it described first and
> foremost what the museum would be all about. I remember there was a
> discussion about whether there should be a hyphen or not between "Hands" and
> "On" and it was decided that there had to be a hyphen!  We received initial
> approval for 501©3 status in January 1979.
> 
> Initially, we had a difficult time explaining what "hands-on" meant to
> people as we were soliciting support as it was such a new concept and a
> newly coined word...people asked...Is it a Museum for the Blind?..some
> volunteers cited concern wearing our Tshirts with the logo on it!  Most
> people readily adopted the term and loved it.
> 
> In the summer 1979 three of us (Joan and Marc Ross and myself) went to the
> Exploratorium to spend several weeks as FIPSE interns and met Frank
> Oppenheimer, Rob Semper and Judy Diamond and many others.  At our first
> meeting with Frank Oppenheimer, I recall Frank remarking that he did not
> care for the term "hands-on" unless it was tied in with the phrase
> "minds-on".  
> 
> Some years later, I saw some materials from NSTA which used this slogan
> "Hands-On turns Minds-On" which we adopted on some of out brochures.  It is
> heartening and wonderful that "hands-on" has now become such a household
> word... accepted and appropriate word.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Tammy Astor-Jack1/10/04 16:[log in to unmask]
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>> Does anyone know who coined the terms "hands-on" & "minds-on"?
>> 
>> Thanx
>> 
>> Tammy Astor-Jack
>> 
>> 
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