How to Bring a NASA Moon Rock Program to your library

Track

Children's Programming or Services

Level of Experience

Beginner

Target Audience

Academic Librarians, Public Librarians, and School Librarians

Session Description 

Our summer 2019 attendance increased by over 2,000 patrons when we did engaging programming using lunar and meteorite samples provided free by NASA. We will share the inexpensive but exciting experiments our small outreach team used, as well as teaching you how to get certified, your responsibilities in borrowing the samples, and how we presented these national treasures.

Presenters 

Kimberly Ball, West Florida Public Libraries
Kimberly is the Library Division Manager and Senior STEAM Librarian at the West Florida Public Libraries. She holds a MLS from Texas Woman's University in Denton and a MA in Psychology from LeTourneau University in Longview, TX.

John Shelton, West Florida Public Libraries
In a galaxy far, far away…….John Shelton is the Director’s Aide for West Florida Public Libraries. As a humble moisture farmer on Tatooine, he dreamed of flying away to the Empire to become a Tie Fighter pilot. Life happened and he instead moved to Pensacola and got his Bachelor’s in Labor and Employment Relations from Penn State and is currently pursuing a Master’s in Information Science from FSU in the hopes of one day being the Death Star Librarian.

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