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Perhaps we could stretch it to Georgia O'Keefe.
Lynn
Robert Russell wrote:
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> Daniel:
>
> Here's a resource about the original Curious George. At the Self-Reliance
> Foundation, we do media and outreach targeting Latino families. One type
> of outreach we have developed is La Pagina Familiar de la Ciencia (Family
> Science Page), which features kid-friendly interviews with scientists,
> activities to do at home, games, puzzles, etc. We disseminate the page to
> various Spanish-language newspapers across the country. In most regions of the
> country, you will find one or more Spanish-language papers. Here in DC, we
> have eight or nine. Our family page is featured weekly on the full back
> page of El Pregonero, which has a circuation of about 35,000.
>
> We have done several pages featuring Curious George, in collaboration with
> WGBH. You could "recycle these pages," as appropriate or we could talk
> with WGBH about doing some new pages. You could include several pages as
> part of whatever kind of press kit or resources you provide with the exhibit.
>
> We are also interested in developing partnerships with science centers of
> children's museums who want to feature the page in their community. One of
> our new partners is the Arizona Science Center, which works with a local
> Spanish-language paper to run a combination of the generic features we
> develop as well as some local content (e.g., listings of family events at ASC,
> etc.). Since we provide the content to the newspapers at no charge, we do
> not pay for the space and ask the newspapers to run the page weekly or
> monthly at no charge as a service to their readers; most papers are happy to do
> that.
>
> So the Museum of Science or any other science or any other science center
> is interested in the Family Science page, please let me know. I will send
> you a pdf sample of the page and we can take it from there.
>
> Bob Russell ("El Doctor Bob")
>
> Robert L. Russell, Ph.D.
> Project Director, Celebra la Ciencia & ConCiencia/Hispanic Science Newswire
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> In a message dated 12/1/2009 11:16:03 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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> Boston Children's Museum is preparing to host an exhibit featuring
> everyone's favorite monkey, Curious George! We're thinking it would be fun to have
> a display of other famous Georges, ideally creative and curious thinkers,
> scientists, engineers, inventors, etc.
>
> Who's *your* favorite George?
>
>
> TIA,
> AD
>
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> discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..." " --Isaac
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