Clifford Wagner Science Interactives Inc.

Clifford Wagner Science Interactives Inc. Science Interactives builds exhibits—hands on interactive exhibits.(www.scienceinteractives.com) He took to it like a duck to water.

One of the most fortuitous moments in Clifford Wagner’s life was in 1980 when he got hired at the Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia as a cabinetmaker. With his mother being a teacher, his father an engineer, and a degree in art and design, he was immediately put to use creating hands on exhibits, first for a physics exhibit and then for whatever topic the Institute was covering as

it remade most all of its exhibits. After 11 years there, constantly learning new stuff and creating a lot of interactive exhibits he jumped across the street to Please Touch Children’s Museum, saying to himself “OK, the topic is now Childhood Development. What a wonderful topic to learn!”

In 1995 he went into business of creating his own exhibits, which he is still doing to this day. His present mix of available traveling exhibits reflects this Science and Children’s Museum background: engaging for kids from 2 to 102. Two things he has loved most about his career is the learning about the topics being covered and then, along with all his colleagues, figuring out what we can effectively teach. Through all this learning and teaching he came up with his favorite statement: “No matter who you are, every single person on this planet, you spend half your life as a teacher and half your life as a student. But the trick is to know which to be when, and to always seek opportunities for both. I never want to stop learning new stuff for that’s what makes life interesting. But in this continuum of human existence, what do you teach? What is most important to pass on to all those that come after us?”

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An Easy Way To Sharpen Your Pencil coming together.
02/26/2018

An Easy Way To Sharpen Your Pencil coming together.

The pencil sharpening bird. Still not the final eyeballs.
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The pencil sharpening bird. Still not the final eyeballs.

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The bird isn’t in its final paint job and its getting better eyeballs but here it is working. The pencil tube will go through a plexiglass wall. It will also be prettier than it is now with a cap on its vertical tube.

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The actual pencil sharpener without the bird body.

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This is the first proof of reliable kite flying for our “pencil sharpener”. The barrel here sits outside the window that the visitors open to start the whole sequence. The barrel has in it two layers of aluminum honeycomb air straightener for a smooth airstream. Box kites are more stable that traditional kites. This combination give us the reliability we need for what is going to be a very popular device.

Laying out the ceiling.
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Laying out the ceiling.

Initial kite experiments.
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Initial kite experiments.

The platform for”An Easy Way To Sharpen Your Pencil”, with the elements starting to be located.
02/26/2018

The platform for”An Easy Way To Sharpen Your Pencil”, with the elements starting to be located.

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508 Wellesley Road
Philadelphia, PA
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