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"When you have fun, you want to learn."

- Ping Faulhaber, Suncoast Science Center
 

[Science]  Tech Toys to Make Science Fun

Editor’s NoteThis is the second in a three-part series on the Suncoast Science Center, which hosts its first open house this weekend. 

Colored light, just like paint, derives from the mixing of a few basic colors—although a slightly different set with red, blue and green making the palette. To envision the mixing of beams of light, though, challenges elementary school students’ basic sensibilities. And that is where Jennifer Holt comes in. Armed with a literal library of specialized scientific equipment, the education specialist for the new Suncoast Science Center manages shelves of nerdy toys. One of those, a light box with an optical kit, allows Holt in a demonstration to bend beams of red and green light together, producing glowing yellow rays to cast upon a white surface. “it’s a great kit for kids,” she boasts.

The tool is one of many Holt has out for display at the center’s newly operational facility on Beneva Road. She pulls out a tuning fork set to show how sound waves ripple in a beaker of water, then a Dino-Lite microscope that projects magnified images of fingerprints and salt grains onto a 19-inch computer screen. All of the items are available to teachers in the Sarasota County School District through the Science Lending Library, a creation of the Faulhaber Family Foundation. The resource helps teachers make lessons engaging to students who may be bored reading about sound and light waves only through chapters and diagrams in textbooks. “When you have fun,” said Ping Faulhaber, Suncoast Science Center executive director, “you want to learn.” 

The center has already brought groups of teachers into the new building, located next to the Florida House, to show off the available technological tools, and Faulhaber wants soon to create web connectivity with teacher’s curriculums that will provide hyperlinks from lesson plans to actual goods within the Lending Library inventory. The center continues to build its supply, and already has back rooms with boxes of cross-section models of the human respiratory system alongside beach balls that look like the planet Jupiter.

Much of the library’s capacity will be on display at the Open House event planned at the Suncoast Science Center facility this Saturday.

Pictured: Jennifer Holt demonstrates how to use a light box with optical kit. 

[Gallery]  The Cultural Legacy of Comic Books
Philip Lederer, Phil.Lederer@srqme.com

Ringling College’s Selby Gallery continues to impress with a dual exhibition of A Legacy Inscribed, showcasing the Schoenberg Collection of Manuscripts, and “The Great American Graphic Novel.” One a collection of priceless historic artifacts from the great ancient cultures of the world, including Greek, Islamic and Hindu, and the other an exploration of the history of a particular school of American illustration, the pairing seems odd at first, but the juxtaposition becomes clearer walking through the galleries.

The Schoenberg Collection dominates the expansive front room, with the ancient texts splayed across their settings, encased in glass tombs. They rest open, so passersby can investigate the careful calligraphy and colorful illustrations. Divided into sections by general topic, manuscripts dedicated to law, art, medicine, education, social policy and more provide a window into whatever aspect interests the viewer most. A table with reference materials and a handful of chairs has taken up shop in the middle of the room, inviting the curious to brush up on their context.

“The ancient manuscripts not only demonstrate the transmission of early knowledge but also the beginning of the use of layout, color and illustration to emphasize the ideas in specific passages,” said Tim Jaeger, interim assistant director of exhibitions and galleries at Ringling College. This is where it begins to click. “In the graphic novels you have the modern continuation of these early presentation styles in storytelling with the complement of images and text juxtaposed or standing alone, often using panelization to move the story along just as the early scribes used columns to organize.”

“The Great American Graphic Novel,” displayed in the rear room, traces the development of the graphic novel style from the beginning of the 20th century to modern day. Featuring early illustrated books relying more on page-flipping than panel layout as well as more intricate creations such as Will Eisner’s A Contract with God and other Tenement Stories (one of the first to popularize the term ‘graphic novel’), a short jaunt around the room results in a crash course in illustrative evolution.

A Legacy Inscribed is currently on display at the Selby Gallery at Ringling College of Art and Design and will be up until Feb. 18. 

[Opening]  Cadbury Park Hosting Open House

Cadbury Park Assisted Living and Memory Care at Jacaranda Place will host a professionals open house and tour of the new assisted living and memory care neighborhood on Feb. 10 at 3:30pm. The event is intended to show ways the state-of-the-art community will enrich the lives of residents. RSVP to 941-408-2050 by Feb. 6. 

3657 Cadbury Circle, Venice, 941-408-2050

[Exec Moves]  Langsen Elected at South Florida Museum

The South Florida Museum’s Board of Trustees unanimously elected Bruce Langsen in a special election to fill an open seat. Langsen brings more than 30 years of experience at top levels in the airline industry, with a focus on operations and marketing. He retired as president of Inventory Locator Services, a Boeing company which provided a business-to-business Internet eMarketplace that profitably served the Aviation, Defense and Commercial Marine Industries with customers in 93 countries. 

South Florida Museum

[Sports]  MLS Training Returning to IMG

A dozen Major League Soccer and international clubs are set to  train and compete this pre-season at IMG Academy in Bradenton, with a number of teams arriving on a rolling basis for training, Jan. 25 - Feb. 15. Following the training period, eight separate clubs will arrive for the inaugural IMG Suncoast Pro Classic, Feb. 18-28. The tournament will feature a round robin competition format with the top two teams from each bracket moving on to the championship match. Bracket 1 will comprise Toronto FC (MLS), New York Red Bulls (MLS), HB Koge (Denmark; Danish First Division) and Oklahoma City Energy FC (USL PRO). Bracket 2 will include the Philadelphia Union (MLS), Columbus Crew (MLS), TP Mazembe (Democratic Republic of the Congo; Linafoot League) and the Costa Rica U23 Men’s National Team. 

IMG Academy

[Dog's Best Friend]  Let Small Dog Meet Others In Natural Way
Gregg Flowers

Bringing our smaller dog into our arms for "safety" is an easy habit for us to fall into because we're used to picking them up all the time anyway. That's one of the things small dog owners love most about having a little dog. We can hold them. But Fluffy will take her cues from you when it comes to other dogs, so in a social scenario it's not natural, and sends a confusing message. She can't really understand being protected in this fashion, so she will come to see it as an odd form of affection when another dog is around, and will likely develop an abnormal, asocial, isolationist mentality. 

The pack leader's main responsibility is the safety of the pack. But in the dog world, the leader isn't likely to literally pick up a subordinate for protection! The more natural way of the dog is to meet other dogs when you, the leader, approve and to sniff and be sniffed. Your dog should automatically learn, starting as a pup, that you are the sovereign protector, and when we encounter another dog, when it comes to meeting or not meeting, it's your call. If it's "no" we keep moving. If it's "yes" you should closely monitor both dogs during the "sniff dance,” observing their respective body languages to preclude anything potentially negative between the two. After a minute or so of that, we get back to the walk. Picking your dog up in these situations only muddles the socialization process.

Don't worry about her "thinking it's not fair" for you to be the one to choose when we stop to say hello to another dog. She'll be just fine, and to proceed in this manner sends the appropriate message and actually reinforces your leadership, which carries over into every aspect of your relationship. 

A native of Louisiana, SRQ Daily Columnist Gregg Flowers owns Dog's Best Friend Dog Training Services here in Sarasota, where he "teaches dogs and trains people." Gregg became fascinated by our relationship with dogs as a boy in the '60s, and by 1985 had developed his own unique style of working with dogs and their humans 

Dog;s Best Friend

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