A collaboration with the Boston Museum of Science has resulted in a cool (and warm!) new tool for the Maine Mobile Biolab. Working with Biolab educators Anna Stehlik and Heather Carlisle, fabricators in the museum's exhibit workshop created custom-made temperature plates--an interactive tool that helps Biolab visitors explore how humans perceive temperature.
Carlisle and Stehlik traveled to Boston to pick up the plates, getting a behind-the-scenes look at the museum's fabrication workshop and a sneak preview of some new exhibits.
"Thanks so much to the museum team for their amazing hospitality and for custom-making this great new tool for our lessons aboard the lab," said Carlisle.
Stehlik "test drove" the temperature plates (see photo) which made their debut March 21 at the Maine Science Festival in Bangor. They were part of the lab's "Senses and Perception" exhibit, which will also be open to the public this weekend at the Brain, Body and Wellness Fair sponsored by the University of New England.
