
Cynthia Graville-Smith
What I do, where I work
I manage the website and technology development for the Saint Louis Science Center’s School and Community Partnerships department.
Current position
Director of Learning Technologies at Saint Louis Science Center
Website(s)
Recent publications & presentations
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"Expressing Diverse Insitutional Identities Through Web 2.0." Museums and the Web 2008
April 2008
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"Expanding the Hive: Blogs as Engines of Community Formation ." American Association of Museums Annual Conference
April 2008
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"Strategies for Using Writing to Engage High School Students in Science." National Science Teachers Assocation National Conference
March 2008
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"Making Web 2.0 Connections for the Digital Natives." Midwest Educational Technology conference
February 2008
Latest Posts from Youth Exploring Science - Youth Exploring Science, a part of the Saint Louis Science Center
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Staff Picture of the Week: Marwin Explores The Oobleck!
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Published on August 31, 2010
Thanks to some hard work and generosity from the SLSC Public Programs department, staff had the opportunity last week to walk across water. "How?" you ask?By combining corn starc...
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Fuzzy Fast Food: Day 8
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Published on August 20, 2010
Reporting to you from the front lines of the fast food experiment. Day 8 (Day 5 for the homemade) has brought forth some fascinating arrivals. Every food container has developed some form of mold, typically in the fries. This has been a very unexpected ...
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Fuzzy Fast Food - Day 5 - WE HAVE MOLD!
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Published on August 17, 2010
Well, it's official: Wendy's french fries have begun to mold! I was curious which fast food place would start to show mold, and I thought Wendy's might be first with their new slogan: "Fresh, Never Frozen."See that mold right there in the middle? ...
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Fuzzy Fast Food
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Published on August 13, 2010
Visitors to the Taylor Community Science Resource Building in the last week may have noticed a new addition to the walls by the teen room. Fuzzy Fast Food is an experiment I've set up designed to watch what happens as a cheeseburger and fries is left ...
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SciJourn = Organized
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Published on August 12, 2010
Today, with the help of Korry Busch and Ariel Stavri, I finished organizing the SciJourn newsroom (Latimer)! What once was an extremely disorganized mess, is now a more organized mess... :) Cheers, David
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The last day
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Published on August 05, 2010
I am so sad this is the last day of work. I am going to miss everybody, it went so fast. This was a good experience. i made good friends and i enjoyed my group i was in. Tim you were a cool supervisior. I can't wait to see you guys in the fall. Well ...
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Sad :(
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Published on August 05, 2010
I'm kind of gonna miss this group. We enjoyed a lot of stuff. Still kinda hung over from pizza from lunch. But this was a really awesome experience. (Wahhhhhhh!) :'(
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End of the summer
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Published on August 05, 2010
The summer is finally over, and this is the last blog post of it. This is also the last Day of Summer time science for me.I will always remember this summer in particular because of the friebnds i've made and the teaching i will always have with me. Goo...
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bye for now
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Published on August 05, 2010
well not entirely, ill probably be back this fall. but i cant wait till next summer, to see all of my friends again because im diffenetly going to miss this group. well bye for now!;)
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almost done
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Published on August 04, 2010
i am so happy that i am almost done with my project.At first i thought the project that i am doing wasnt going to take this long...i am so glad that i got to learned from this experiment...im so glad that this project is almost over...
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boys vs.girls in which has a better memory
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Published on August 04, 2010
GIRLS HAVE THE BEST MEMORY!!!!! HOORAY! okay so i didnt exactly get the time to do the project to see who had better memory. but to tell the truth girls would have won for sure, no offense guys. anyway ill talk about it anyway on how it would have been ...
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Coming to an end
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Published on August 04, 2010
The summer is coming to an end for the teens on the YES program. School is starting again, and the summer is going away. I will always remember my summer at the YES program. I will remember the tecniques i learned for teaching, the projects we did,...
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The End
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Published on August 04, 2010
Well, its almost the end. I had fun this summer. Today is the last day at the Taylor building so we're going to end it right. . . by getting the new teens ! lOl



















