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SCIENCE CENTRES NEWS Canada to debut hi-tech Star Trek tour


Canada’s Aviation and Space Museum is boldly going where no man has gone before to bring its visitors a first-of-its-kind interactive educational exhibit based on the Star Trek franchise. Set to make its debut


in May 2016, the Starfleet Academy Experience will offer visitors the chance to become a Starfleet cadet, beat the Kobayashi Maru test and pilot a starship from an active bridge. Produced by EMS


Entertainment, the immersive “Trek Tech” experience will take guests from an orientation process through a training programme involving simulated science, engineering, medical and command courses, through to graduation, and finally


INDUSTRY OPINION


Let Ecsite conference inspire us to fight against food waste Mikko Myllykoski


I’m writing this a few days after the biggest professional science engagement event in Europe: the Ecsite Annual Conference. Attendance records were broken when


■ ■The Starfleet Academy Experience will debut in Canada


to the deck of an active starship. Visitors will learn about emerging technologies such as a functional tricorder (a data scanner used in the show), NASA’s warp drive theory and the latest experiments with phasers and teleporters, as the experience combines the


science fiction of Star Trek with real-world science. The Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa, Ontario, is the first stop on a multi-city North American tour, with the temporary exhibition moving to a new location in September 2016. ■■More: http://lei.sr?a=W8U6H_A


1,101 professionals gathered on 9-11 June in Trento, Italy. The Renzo Piano architecture of MUSE provided a perfect setting to discuss the theme, Food for Curious Minds. The conference was a celebration


US science centre to focus on interactivity


After announcing plans in January to develop a new $40m (£26m, €34m) facility overlooking the Missouri River, the Gateway to Science Center in Bismarck, North Dakota, has revealed new details for its ambitious project as it aims to expand its appeal to a wider audience. Scheduled to open in Q1 of 2017, a team made up of US-based HGA architects and North Dakota-based JLG architects are behind the designs for the new facility, which is centred around interactivity. Designed to incorporate different types of learning for multiple audiences, the proposal includes a number of interactive exhibits, including a maze navigated by simple


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of diversity and the 85 sessions sparked many discussions and debates. Much time was spent negotiating meanings and understanding where our field is and where it wants to be. One leading thread was opening up to deeper engagement: we want to connect, we want to be connected – even hacked. A personal highlight was the


keynote address by food waste activist Tristram Stuart. He painted a grim picture of irresponsible global consumption habits (30 percent of all food produced in the world is thrown away) – yet this was a speech full of hope as he challenged us to stop being part of the problem and start being part of the solution. The food waste topic allows us to


■■Exhibits planned include a maze and kinetic sculptures


machinery, an exhibit for preschool children, classroom labs with a public viewing area and kinetic sculptures serving as movable artworks. There’s also an exhibit where children can design their own aircrafts and a model of a reservoir system that allows visitors


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to generate energy, send water to a city, storage water in towers or


implement flood protection. In addition, displays on transportation, energy, health, space, nanotechnology, agriculture and weather will


be included in the plans. ■■Details: http://lei.sr?a=T8p7s_A


invent new ways of communicating the seemingly abstract concept of biodiversity loss and empower our audiences to change their habits. We can also examine our own cafés and restaurants. Stuart recommended three simple steps: reducing plate size by 30 per cent, halving our meat offer and getting rid of trays. You can also redistribute untouched food to local charities, as was the case during the conference. I invite attractions managers to join together in this – let’s do better for our pockets and for the environment.


Mikko Myllykoski, experience director at Heureka, and Ecsite ACPC chair


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