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| Sightseer's Guide to Engineering
This online travel guide includes links to websites for manufacturing facilities, roller coasters, ski lifts, museums, lighthouses, and engineering marvels like the Golden Gate Bridge and Hoover Dam. The site is sponsored by the National Society of Professional Engineers and National Engineers Week. | | Association for Career and Technical Education
The Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE), formerly the American Vocational Association, is the largest national education association dedicated to preparing youths and adults for careers. Founded in 1926, ACTE members are teachers, administrators, guidance counselors, university professors, state/local employees, and students in subject areas ranging from business to healthcare. | | National Air & Space Museum
Part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, the National Air & Space Museum is one of the most popular museums in the world. Their website include exhibit information as well and resources for students and teachers. | | Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation
The Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation documents, interprets, and disseminates information about inventions and innovations. The center supports programs and events to encourage young people to be inventive and to recognize the role of invention and innovation in U.S. history. The Lemelson Center, housed at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, has extensive of resources for teachers, students, and others. | | National Inventors Hall of Fame
This not-for-profit organization aims to recognize inventors and invention everywhere and to promote creativity the spirit of innovation. Located in Akron, Ohio, the museum runs Camp Invention for students and sponsors the Collegiate Inventors Competition. | | Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
OMSI is located on the east bank of the Willamette River, just south of downtown Portland. In addition to hundreds of interactive exhibits and labs, OMSI offers dozens of fun-filled, interactive events designed for visitors of all ages. | | New York Hall of Science
New York Hall of Science in Flushing Meadows Corona Park has over 225 exhibits including a technology gallery, biochemistry lab, and a Feedback exhibit that explores how machines and living things adapt to changes in their environment. | | Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
Located in New York City, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum is the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to the study of historical and contemporary design. | | Exploratorium
The Exploratorium is located inside the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco's Marina district. Innovative exhibits include: Light, color, sound and music, motion, animal behavior, electricity, heat and temperature, language, patterns, hearing, touch, vision, waves and resonance, and weather. | | Invention at Play
Invention at Play is a highly interactive traveling exhibit and website that focuses on the similarities between the way children and adults play and the creative processes used by innovators in science and technology. It departs from traditional representations of inventors as extraordinary geniuses who are "not like us" to celebrate the creative skills and processes that are familiar and accessible to all people. The exhibit was developed by the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, part of the Smithsonian Institution. |
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