Barren River Imaginative Museum of Science

Engineering

April — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:19:55 +0000

Barren River Imaginative Museum of Science

Celebrates National Engineering Week with a special Hands-on presentation

on Engineering and Bridges

The presentation will be held at two times; 10:30 am and 2:00 pm

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Appropriate for Elementary and Middle School Students

BRIMS is in the news!

April — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:55:50 +0000

Check us out! We are on WBKO and in the Daily News! Thank you to Elsa Bolt, Billy Hicks, and Marissa Butler.

Moving the BIG stuff!

April — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:32:57 +0000

A group of hard-working volunteers gathered to move some of the large exhibit elements from our old location to our new one, yesterday. BRIMS wouldn’t be the same without the BRIMS Blaster, Duck In Kaleidoscope, or Brimsley. Many thanks to everyone who helped!

We’re getting closer to being open, but we need your help, too! Contact Us to volunteer.

Moving!

April — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:53:24 +0000

We have the keys for our temporary space– at Greenwood Mall! We will be working to set up in the new space and need all of the help we can get. BRIMS is an all-volunteer organization. We need your help so we can be OPEN. We have a beautiful new space and some new exhibit ideas, please help us make them available to everyone! Contact Us if you are available and would like to volunteer to help move and set up or to be present so we can open to the public between 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., particularly on Thursday, Friday, or Saturday.

Briarwood Fourth Grade at BRIMS

April — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:56:18 +0000

We enjoyed a visit from Briarwood Elementary school’s fourth grade classes on Friday, January 27th! Brian Womack, of the Green River Regional Educational Cooperative, graciously and expertly gave a presentation on energy for them.

Branding BRIMS

April — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:33:22 +0000

Professor Cliff Shaluta and his Ad Campaign class visited BRIMS today. These senior-level advertising students will help us with market research and presenting ourselves to constituents. I think we delighted- or at least surprised- all of them at least once with Science. Now, they can help us share that feeling with everyone! You can visit the Advertising and Public Relations website at WKUFusion to see more of what they can do.

Save Our Science!

April — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:39:52 +0000

When she heard that BRIMS might close, Cathy Willoughby, a fourth grade teacher at Cumberland Trace Elementary School, decided to help. Mrs. Willoughby’s class is beginning a letter-writing campaign to local businesses to ask them to help, too. In these letters, the students describe some hands-on experiences with science and some new things that they would like to see at our very own science museum.

In addition, Mrs. Willoughby also started a program called Bucks for BRIMS, in which teachers can make a donation and wear jeans to school. The students liked this idea and began Cents for Science. They may wear a hat to school in exchange for their donation.

Lost River Elementary began fundraising early and has already sent BRIMS over $300 dollars!

Mrs. Willoughby and her students are certainly an inspiration for us, read these excerpts from their letters and maybe they will inspire you, too.

2012 Bridge Building Competition

April — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:54:20 +0000

The Bridge Building Competition committee met and finalized the rules and plans for the 2012 contest which will be held Saturday, March 10, 2012 at Stupp Bridge Company. Kenny Lee has created a wonderful stand-alone website that contains all of the contest information, rules, checklists and tip sheets (to be added later by Greg). Check it out at http://brimsbridgebuildingcontest.wikispaces.com/

Bridge building kits are available at BRIMS for $5 apiece to those who only need one or just a few kits. Please call 843-9779 or email brimsbg@gmail.com to make sure someone is at the museum since we don’t have regular open hours at this time.

Thanks to Doug Jenkins for coordinating the committee. Thanks also to Reuben at Stupp Bridge Company and Mike at Scott & Murphy for once again providing the support to continue!

BRIMS Christmas Tree at the Houchens Center

admin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:09:05 +0000

November 30, 2011

This year’s theme is “best beloved children’s books” and we chose the book SNOWFLAKE BENTLEY by Jacqueline Briggs Martin. This biography tells the true story of a Vermont farm boy who was mesmerized by snowflakes. Wilson Bentley was fascinated by the six-sided frozen phenomena, and once he acquired a microscope with a camera, his childhood preoccupation took on a more scientific leaning. Bentley spent his life taking countless exquisite photographs examining the tiny crystals and their delicate, mathematical structures. Any child who has cut a folded-paper snowflake will appreciate Wilson Bentley’s infatuation with the beautiful and intricate designs of snow crystals.

For more information about Snowflake Bentley please visit http://snowflakebentley.com/

The snowflakes created for the BRIMS Christmas Tree are from a book written by Marion Nichols, an artisan at the City Museum in St. Louis. Her pattern books can be purchased thru the City Museum site at www.citymuseum.org

The first document is the instructions for creating 6-sided paper snowflakes and also includes Mrs. Nichols contact information. The second & third documents are a songbird snowflake pattern and a penguin snowflake pattern. Download them and create your own beautiful snowflakes!

Snowflake Basics
Bird Snowflake
Penguin Snowflake

Hart County Field Trip

admin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:00:58 +0000

November 15, 2011

An excellent group of students from Hart County was at BRIMS on November 15. We are so glad they were here and glad that they had a good time!