http://fractalfoundation.org Fractal Blog - a chaotic exploration of science and education Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:19:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Please join us for a night of Family Fractal Fun at the... http://fractalfoundation.org/2011/11/fractal-fest-november-12th/ We're so exited that our dramatic, engaging immersive fulldome fractal show "Fractals Rock!" is coming to the Boston Museum of Science. It will be playing at the Charles Hayden Planetarium on the following dates: October 14, 2011: 5:30 p.m., 9:30 p.m. October 21, 2011: 5:30 p.m., 9:30 p.m. October 22, 2011: 5:30 p.m., ... http://fractalfoundation.org/2011/10/fractals-rock-comes-to-boston/ Loading... http://fractalfoundation.org/2011/08/sign-up-to-volunteer/ We are very pleased to present the exciting "Fractals Rock!" program at the NM Museum of Natural History Planetarium. This show features all zooms with music and is highly engaging and dramatic. Less talk, more Fractals Rock! There are 3 shows on the THIRD Friday of each month, at 6, 7 ... http://fractalfoundation.org/2011/07/fractals-rock-now-on-its-own-evening/ We are delighted and honored to have been invited to participate at both TEDxABQ in New Mexico, and TEDxBITSGoa in India. See the video of "Fractals that Make Us" at TEDxABQ: Following this very popular presentation at last year's TEDxABQ event, we're very excited to have a presence again ... http://fractalfoundation.org/2011/07/fractals-at-tedx/ Register now for our next professional development workshop for teachers, the Fractal Institute. This will be a a one day workshop on August 3, from 10AM to 5PM, and it will take place in Jemez Springs at the new Valles Caldera National Trust Education Center. The workshop is FREE, and is supported ... http://fractalfoundation.org/2011/07/fractal-institute-for-teachers-aug-3d/ The 2011 Fractal Trianglethon is almost upon as (April 10th) and hundreds and hundreds of fractals keep pouring in from all over the world! Just today, we received a batch of 729 (that's 3^6) triangles that had been made by students from McKinley Middle School (IS259) in Brooklyn New York. ... http://fractalfoundation.org/2011/04/fractal-trianglethon-around-the-world/ On Sunday April 10, 2011, we built the world's largest fractal triangle in the Albuquerque Convention Center. Almost 100 volunteers helped assemble the 192' wide triangle - incredibly in just under 1 hour. Children from all over the world participated by creating triangles. See the full list of participating schools here. ... http://fractalfoundation.org/2011/03/fractal-trianglethon-april-10th-2011/ We are very excited to announce the world premiere of our fulldome feature film "Fractals!" at the FulldomeUK conference on March 13, 2011. The show was very well received in England, and we are grateful for the support of the international audience. However, we are using feedback gained from this ... http://fractalfoundation.org/2011/02/fractals-fulldome-world-premiere-in-uk/ I had the great pleasure and privilege of being invited to share our work with fractals in India in February 2011. The Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) in Goa hosted two exciting conferences, Quark2011 and the prestigious TEDxBITSGoa. I presented at both conferences, each of which were attended ... http://fractalfoundation.org/2011/02/fractal-foundation-in-india/