{"id":3376,"date":"2014-11-03T19:09:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T00:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collegeresearchsharing.com\/?p=3376"},"modified":"2026-09-03T09:57:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T13:57:05","slug":"new-england-auto-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegeresearchsharing.com\/?p=3376","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut Museums and Science Centers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"\"You can read a bit about this photo here of a Pope Hartford at The Old Motor site:    http:\/\/theoldmotor.com\/?p=65193<\/a>  This photo is from the collection of my friend Mark Johnson, of the Klingberg Family Centers, <\/a>New Britain, CT, which our local car club supports (the Valley Collector Car Club<\/a>).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m a volunteer at the Canton Historical Museum<\/a>, for my classmate from 60+ years ago, the new curator there. I wrote a proposal for them to get an assessment grant. I have an archive at University of Hartford<\/a>, and expect to contribute to the CT Museum of Culture and History per the Hartford Arts Renaissance of the 1970s project that I’ve helped to create.  A professionally produced book on this is forthcoming on Blurb, on The City as Stage<\/em>: How a group of young artists brought Hartford, CT back to life in the 1970s.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Considerable research demonstrates the value of museums and science and nature centers for hands-on, informal, educational enrichment programs that can\u2019t be recreated in classrooms. Today, they also represent a promising, new platform promoting critical thought, analysis, creativity, and tangible excitement about learning and teaching in the new century.  But is this largely untapped?  White Oak Associates Museum Planners and Producers once noted regarding the New England Auto Museum <\/a> (NEAM) (I was a director there) that  \u201cA new format for changing visitor experiences is now possible given advances in museum research and practice, new audience expectations including participation, and matured digital technologies. But the innovation should bravely create a new and distinctly different kind of changing museum experience\u2014a new presentation format combining immersion and interactivity into a new platform for STEM learning, revenue generation, and museum vitality.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The goal is to help break the more than100-year-old process of separating technical and academic subjects, and unite the silos of science and engineering via the Next Generation Science Standards and other programs. Students not only need to be able to succeed academically to get into these promising careers but to be motivated to do so. With an artificial separation they lack motivation, or the \u201cgrowth mindset\u201d of Carol Dweck (see her book on mindset, that I used in teaching).  The walls between formal and informal learning professional fields are only beginning to crumble. There is too little transfer of practice, learning, and community. Martin Storksdieck, the director of the Board on Science Education at the National Academies, suggests that advocates still have a lot of work to do in convincing policymakers and the public that informal science <and engineering and technical> learning merits increased investment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are links to some research I did for the NEAM. (SpotlightonSTEMintheClassroom<\/a> ) An interest in history is the gateway to other disciplines and fields of study. AA3PM_National_Report<\/a>  Also see Teaching History With Museums: Strategies for K-12 Social Studies<\/em><\/a>, by Alan Marcus, Jeremy Stoddard, Walter Woodward. 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the STEM Pathways Playbook from IBM used to create P-TECH <\/a>six-year schools, which are an inspiration for teaching (I was in a six-year, non-STEM, liberal arts program 1962-68).  The first one was in CT, Norwalk!  STEM-Pathways-Playbook_Feb-2012<\/a>    See attached  MDRC Study<\/a>.  Also see Project Lead the Way<\/a>, Ford Next Generation Learning<\/a>, SAE International<\/a>.     Some references: MDRC Study<\/a>,  STEM-Related_Educational_Assets_List<\/a>, BeyondHS<\/a>, Connecticut_hs<\/a>, this  CT STEM Career Partnership Grant<\/a> apparently led to this CT STEM Jobs<\/a> site.    Also see  NCREST STEM Early College Expansion Project<\/a> in Bridgeport,  Made in CT video at CCAT<\/a>.  STEM Bibliography<\/strong>: STEMBiblioRWalker<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I bring 66+ years of experience in the world of auto collecting, as my father Charlie Walker was a collector and I had a few choice cars. \u00a0 I served as secretary of the Valley Collector Car Club<\/a> that donates all profits to charities, and am still involved.\u00a0 For 25 years until 2021 I maintained Charlie’s primary pride and joy in the family for 65 years, this 1929 Packard Roadster 640, that won the Lou Biondi Award in 2014 at the Klingberg Family Centers annual car show, hosted by Wayne Carini and his dad. ( See F-40 Motorsports<\/a>)\u00a0At the Klingberg<\/a> site there once was an honorable mention of Charlie. \u00a0At Blurb you \u00a0can buy an 80-page\u00a0Klingberg Auto Show Anniversary book with the Packard on page 8 and at the end. https:\/\/www.blurb.com\/books\/636300-klingberg-antique-auto-show<\/p>\n\n\n

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You can read a bit about this photo here of a Pope Hartford at The Old Motor site:    http:\/\/theoldmotor.com\/?p=65193  This photo is from the collection of my friend Mark Johnson, of the Klingberg Family Centers, New Britain, CT, which our local car club supports (the Valley Collector Car Club).   I’m a volunteer at … Continue reading Connecticut Museums and Science Centers<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2jH4N-Ss","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeresearchsharing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeresearchsharing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeresearchsharing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeresearchsharing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeresearchsharing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3376"}],"version-history":[{"count":53,"href":"https:\/\/collegeresearchsharing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28601,"href":"https:\/\/collegeresearchsharing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376\/revisions\/28601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeresearchsharing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeresearchsharing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeresearchsharing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}