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Outreach: Influencing STEM Knowledge

in Informal Education and Outreach

Informing the public about nanotechnology

The Science Museum of Minnesota featured an IGERT trainee on its website that gave the public an opportunity to question a scientist about nanotechnology. The trainee is a mechanical engineering student and his description of his work, "he studies tiny, tiny dots," and explanation of how nanotechnology is being used in an attempt to detect cancer was of great interest to the public. http://dev.smm.org/buzz/museum/ask/arefe