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A look at Capturing Dinosaurs: Teaching Paleontology through Digital Fabrication
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Wed, 17 Jul 2013 09:19:00 -0400
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Last week we launched a ten day summer program for high school youth using the Museum’s dinosaur collections and the tools of digital fabrication to teach comparative fossil anatomy. The program, Capturing Dinosaurs, is a remarkable collaboration amongst our education department, our graduate school, the maker-oriented HTINK, a youth intern provided by MakerBot, and individuals around the museum. 19 youth from around the city and beyond, largely those new to AMNH educational programs, shared in advance why they were interested in attending. The following response encapsulates them all – an interest in dinosaurs, current technology, and a way to combine the two:

Dinosaurs have always been a mysterious animal that I have been curious about. In this program I will be able to understand how to distinguish bones from each other. I am looking forward to learning how to use a 3D printer and making my own copy of a dinosaurs fossil. There are many types of dinosaurs and hopefully at the end of this program I will know how to distinguish them all!


To read more go here: http://www.mooshme.org/2013/07/capturing-dinosaurs-the-beginning/


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Barry Joseph 
Associate Director for Digital Learning
Youth Initiatives
American Museum of Natural History

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http://twitter.com/MMMooshme

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NY, NY 10024-5912
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