<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Hi Randy,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">A nice color brochure of the New England Wireless & Steam Museum could be created and made available to schools, teachers, administrators (and the community) showing how we are able to address the Common Core State Standards. With this connection to education made clear in print, administrators will be more inclined to authorize field trips to the museum for their students.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Chris and Brown had been discussing the idea of creating a workbench area in the side room of the Wireless building that would be beneficial not only to the volunteer crew but also to small visiting groups for hands-on demonstrations about the basics of electromagnetism and how they relate to telegraphy and radio. I believe this would be very much worth the effort to build.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Talk to you soon, </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Craig</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><br></p></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 2:55 PM Randall Snow via Thursday <<a href="mailto:thursday@newsm.org">thursday@newsm.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Everyone,<div><br></div><div>Happy 2019! I hope everyone had a great Christmas and all and are eager to dive into a new year! </div><div><br></div><div>I was able to speak with a few people at the museum today but wanted to reach out to the entire group to try and get some planning underway for the upcoming year. The winter months, when your feet are likely to freeze to the floor of the wireless building, seem like a great time to actually get some plans and goals in place for the upcoming year. I hope I can bring some organization to that effort. Goals seem a lot easier to achieve if we all know what they are!</div><div><br></div><div>Tops on my priority list for the year are to get the wheels turning toward our educational aspirations. The museum was founded partially to serve an educational purpose, and I would say we're not fulfilling that to any appreciable extent. It's also my feeling that by engaging with school-age children we can help build a new audience in a new generation, and hopefully interest them in tangible things they might not otherwise ever be exposed to. I'm hoping to work with the educators we had come by a couple of years ago and others to start building an outline of exactly what we need to have in place to receive school groups. We can then start filling in those pieces in the coming years.</div><div><br></div><div>Dave Caldwell had a great idea today that will serve as an excellent foundation or stepping stone along this educational road. With out existing connection to the local boy scouts, we could develop some educational modules that would help them earn merit badges and continue to engage them, and other troops, with the museum further. The exercise of building these modules will be be great practice for developing similar modules for educational groups and complying with current standards.</div><div><br></div><div>Beyond this of course there are the ongoing projects, the requisite maintenance, and lots of ideas that we've all been discussing. If you could all send me your lists of projects or goals you each might have in mind I think it would be helpful in prioritizing and developing a real plan. We accomplished a lot last year, and I think we can accomplish more this year if we're all on the same page.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks and best wishes for the year ahead,</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_2368113146058915626gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font size="4">Randy Snow</font><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.snowfindings.com" target="_blank">Snow Findings Company</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.lovements.com" target="_blank">Lovements.com</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.newsm.org" target="_blank">New England Wireless and Steam Museum</a><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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