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Let's Explore the Kalamazoo Air Zoo!
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Let’s go imagine, explore, and discover with Caroline and Kylie at the Air Zoo!
Do you have a love of space & science? Well, The Air Zoo is a world-class, Smithsonian-affiliated aerospace and science museum with more than 100 air and space artifacts. Let’s go imagine, explore, and discover with Caroline and Kylie at the Air Zoo!
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Let's Explore the Kalamazoo Air Zoo!
Clip: Season 1 | 5m 22sVideo has Closed Captions
Do you have a love of space & science? Well, The Air Zoo is a world-class, Smithsonian-affiliated aerospace and science museum with more than 100 air and space artifacts. Let’s go imagine, explore, and discover with Caroline and Kylie at the Air Zoo!
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Well, the Air Zoo is a world-class, Smithsonian affiliated aerospace and science museum with more than 100 air and space artifacts.
Let's go imagine, explore, and discover with Caroline and Kylie at the Air Zoo.
- Most of the time when you think of a zoo, animals come to mind.
But today we are taking it to the clouds, literally.
We're here in Kalamazoo, spending time at the Air Zoo with my special friend, Caroline.
Are you ready to get started?
- Yeah.
- Yeah?
Look at these clouds.
Can you touch one?
Boop.
(both chuckle) Let's go.
(warm music) - So the Air Zoo is a place where we really present the history of aircraft, but we're that and so much more.
So we delve into the future, where we're going in space, where we came from, and all of the science in between.
Getting students engaged in STEM and STEAM, kind of experiencing how science, technology, math, art, and engineering all connect together really launches them to be curious, to explore careers, that's a huge area, to see scientists that reflect themselves and to be able to step confidently into scientific fields.
So we have over 30 different education programs that we offer for school age children.
So all the way from kindergarten to 12th grade, all the way from areas of biology to physics, and of course the stars in space.
And we really want to make those accessible to all schools as well.
So we have our Science Inspiration Scholarship Fund that individuals or groups such as schools or community organizations can apply to for funding for Air Zoo education programs.
We recently did programs on Rosie the Riveter.
We did programs on our warplanes that were brought from the bottom of Lake Michigan, which is a really cool story in and of itself.
And we highlight those over in our Flight Discovery Center.
But we also have programming that we do for any sort of group that wants to explore any of those areas of history, such as women in early flight, all the way to women in current space exploration.
All right Caroline, you ready to go to space today and learn a little bit about space?
- Uh-huh.
- Do you wanna pick out a patch for your space mission?
Gonna go with this circle?
Nice.
All right.
We're gonna load up our capsule.
Can you help me load our capsule up?
Can you grab a bean?
We're gonna stick it into our space capsule.
Should we shut the door for our capsule?
Yeah, we don't want anything flying out, do we?
All right, we're gonna send our capsule way up into the air okay Caroline?
We might need to turn it up a little bit.
Let's see.
Oh.
How about that?
Can we make it come down?
Should we make it go up faster?
- Yeah!
- Yeah, I think so too.
Good job.
- Do it again.
- You wanna do it again?
All right.
We want families to be able to experience the Air Zoo.
So community access is really important to us.
So we have a couple different programs that we offer to increase accessibility to the Air Zoo.
One is Museums for All, and Museums for All is an organization that we're part of.
And it allows families who have SNAP or EBT to come to the Air Zoo for a reduced admission price.
So six members of a household can come for $2 per person, really helps everyone be able to experience the Air Zoo.
We also have a really exciting funded program called Community Access Membership, and that provides memberships for local community members who maybe can come frequently to the Air Zoo to experience everything that we have here to offer.
In the education programs specifically, so students who are coming to the Air Zoo or community organizations that we go out to 'cause we also do afterschool programs with our schools and other local nonprofits in the area.
And in the last year, we had interactions with and worked with over 20,000 students.
We're really proud to be such a part of the community and a really consistent, reliable resource for the community.
Good mission, Caroline.
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