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Thanks to Keloland Living for sharing some of the inside scoop on how Innoskate Sioux Falls came to be. The Smithsonian's Lemelson Center's Jeff Brodie was able to join us and dropped a couple of names of the pro skaters planning to join us from USA Skateboarding. Check it out!
The Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, USA Skateboarding and Levitt at the Falls will collaborate to create a one-of-a-kind “Innoskate” festival for the Oglala Lakota Nation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, July 5, and Sioux Falls, South Dakota, July 7–9. The Innoskate festival brings skateboarding and local communities together in a dynamic exploration of invention, creativity, fun and freedom of expression.
-Live concerts featuring the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra ensemble & other national & local artists.
-Professional & Olympic skateboarders, inventors, scientists, artists, & local community leaders will engage audiences through a variety of demonstrations, conversations, & interactive activities exploring the impact of skateboarding innovations in American culture.
-Skateboarding demonstrations, public skating, & learn-to-skate clinics.
-Hands-on invention activities, art education programs, music demonstrations, & health & fitness activities.
-Learn how to build skate obstacles & skateable art.
-As always, Innoskate will conclude with a “Best Trick” contest.
https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/smithsonian-institution-usa-skateboarding-and-levitt-falls-collaborate-bring
We are ROLLING out some exciting news! INNOSKATE SIOUX FALLS - a multiple day free festival celebrating creativity, invention, skateboard culture and fun is coming to Pine Ridge, SD on July 5 and Sioux Falls on July 7-9, 2022. Thanks to The Smithsonian's Lemelson Center and USA Skateboarding for choosing Levitt at the Falls to be the partner site for the 8th Innoskate Festival hosted in the world!
It takes a village to bring a project this cool to SD - Sioux Falls Skatepark Association Downtown Sioux Falls Inc.Rehfeld's Art & Framing Tess Kirby, Sioux Falls Arts Council Ground Control Rock The Rez Wokini Initiative SdState Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation South Dakota Humanities Council Avera Health First PREMIER Bank Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues Society SouthDakota ArtsCouncil Jones421 Sisson Printing Inc.
Though most of the U.S. now has 90% seat belt use, there was a time not long ago when seat belts were highly controversial. Associate Professor of University of Maryland History Department Thomas Zeller was recently named a 2022–23 research fellow at The Smithsonian's Lemelson Center and will research this history. Learn more: go.umd.edu/qKg
Congratulations to the People’s Choice winners, “Benthos 360” and “Walking in the Footsteps of History”!
The CENI team has spent the weekend conducting a playful evaluation of the ACC’s ACCelerate Festival of Creativity and Innovation at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
Thanks to The Smithsonian's Lemelson Center and Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology - ICAT for having us as your evaluator.
Today we’re celebrating innovative women with the Smithsonian! Women haven’t always had equal opportunities to be inventors but have overcome obstacles to create inventions that change our lives every day.
One of these women was Admiral Grace Hopper, one of the first women programmers at Harvard. In 1952, she invented pioneering “compiler” software that translated human programming instructions into computer code. Basically, her invention made communication between humans and computers more user-friendly!
Read more stories about innovative women in our “Picturing Women Inventors” poster exhibition, developed with our friends at The Smithsonian's Lemelson Center! Request your free copy here:
https://s.si.edu/3wvHCpy
"Picturing Women Inventors,” a poster exhibition from Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and The Smithsonian's Lemelson Center celebrating the innovations of American women is on display at the Main Library through the end of the month. Don’t miss it!
PICTURING WOMEN INVENTORS: A Smithsonian Poster Exhibit is on display on the main floor of the Parchment Community Library March 1-31 during !
See videos about the inventors here:
https://www.parchmentlibrary.org/picturing-women-inventors
Picturing Women Inventors is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, in collaboration with the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation and the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and is sponsored by Lyda Hill Philanthropies IF/THEN Initiative and Ericsson.
Installation of this exhibit is made possible through the generous support of the Friends of the Parchment Community Library.
The Smithsonian's Lemelson Center
To celebrate Women's History Month, Wildwood Library is showcasing women in science! "Picturing Women Inventors" is a poster exhibition celebrating the innovations of American women. When you visit you can complete a scavenger hunt, check out some books, and share your creative ideas in our invention gallery!
Thanks to the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and The Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for this awesome display!
“Picturing Women Inventors,” a poster exhibition from Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and The Smithsonian's Lemelson Center celebrating the innovations of American women, can now be seen at the Carlson Library, located on the second floor until the end of March!
Don’t miss it!
“Picturing Women Inventors,” a poster exhibition from Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and The Smithsonian's Lemelson Center celebrating the innovations of American women, can now be seen at APM! Don’t miss it!
PICTURING WOMEN INVENTORS: A Smithsonian Poster Exhibit is on display on the main floor of the Parchment Community Library March 1-31.
See videos about the inventors here:
https://www.parchmentlibrary.org/picturing-women-inventors
Picturing Women Inventors is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, in collaboration with the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation and the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and is sponsored by Lyda Hill Philanthropies IF/THEN Initiative and Ericsson.
Installation of this exhibit is made possible through the generous support of the Friends of the Parchment Community Library.
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service The Smithsonian's Lemelson Center