Via Cisco TelePresence, the Hall of Sciences is able to take distant visitors all over its museum floors. People residing in locations like Sacramento, California; Seattle, Washington; St. Joseph, Michigan; Ontario, Canada; and Mexico City, Mexico have been able to visit the the Hall of Sciences to dissect cows’ eyes, educate themselves regarding the phases of matter, and conduct studies on the science of sports—and they haven’t even had to set foot on an aero plane.

Cisco Telepresence was welcomed to the Hall of Sciences in the year 2006. Since that time, educators have utilized the virtual visits program to complement their classroom lectures and provide their pupils a virtually hands-on scientific experience in the farthest sense possible. Cisco Telepresence transports the museum’s educators and connoisseurs right into the classroom, where pupils can fire off their questions and view up-close the procedure of experiments. It’s debatably a more enhanced view than the pupils might have obtained at the real museum, while assembled around a tiny table and jostling for a spot in the front!

The connection Cisco telepresence enables amongst schools and museums and other varied experiences allows a priceless improvement to pupils’ education. Even the great Google thinks so. The Internet colossus recently declared $12 million in scholarships to science museums, the Hall of Science being among the final list of beneficiaries. The museums will utilize the funds to improve their exhibitions and syllabi, and to enhance outreach with the external community situated outside their walls. The Hall of Science has established a standard with its utilization of Cisco telepresence, and Cisco is hopeful that the other beneficiaries will also consider directing some grant funds towards executing the technology.

Cisco can, and would love to, bring science connoisseurs into all the classrooms all over the world! How much more exhilarating would that make your science classes? After all, we have to boost and cultivate the telepresence avant-gardists of the future using the powerful tool of education.

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