Science Storms Wins Two Prestigious Industry Awards!

Just announced - Science Storms won a THEA Award for Outstanding Achievement by the Themed Entertainment Association (TEA). The THEA is internationally recognized as the equivalent of an Oscar in the themed entertainment and experience design industries.

Event Design Magazine also named its 2010 Event Design Awards winners and Science Storms won the Gold award for “Best Museum Environment “.


Here is the complete list of companies that brought the Museum of Science and Industry’s 26,000-square-foot Science Storms exhibit to life:

Best Museum Environment

Gold Winner
Designers: Evidence Design (Lead Exhibit Designer), HPZS (Architect of Record)
Builders: Advanced Entertainment Technology, Chicago Scenic Studios, Inc., Lexington, Norcon, Inc., Production Resource Group
Client: Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
Project: Science Storms

Read more about Chicago Scenic’s Sunlight Exhibit and more about Science Storms here:
http://www.chicagoscenic.com/projects/museums/20-storm-1.asp


Inside Science Storms, visitors investigate the basic principles of chemistry and physics that are responsible for nature’s biggest wonders, and get a hands-on, up-close look at these wonders themselves. Science Storms puts guests in the middle of the action and lets them search for answers as to how and why things happen in nature. Visitors can

  • Control a 40-foot tornado and experiment with air pressure and wind speed.
  • Trigger a 20-foot avalanche to reveal the beauty of granular dynamics.
  • Witness a high-voltage lightning storm from a giant Tesla coil, 20 feet in diameter, to discover electricity and magnetism.
  • Wage a battle of fire vs. water in a live-fire experiment, and see how a flame reacts to different conditions.
  • Make giant rainbows with optical prisms, recreating Newton’s famous prism experiment, to observe the physical nature of light.
  • Discover the power and motion of waves by unleashing your own tsunami across a 30-foot wave tank.
  • Transform water into vapor, then into ice and back into water again to explore states of matter.

See all the 2010 Event Design Award Winners online here:

http://www.eventdesignmag.com/viewmedia.asp?prmMID=667&prmID=1

 


 

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