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Look for the unexpected at the Oklahoma Science Museum! Intriguing exhibits are all around, even hanging from the ceiling! Which Oklahoma museum is your favorite to visit for fun hands-on learning? ⁠
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…and they lived happily ever after.

Thanks for hosting another great Sunday @sciencemuseumok.

If you haven’t been by recently you need to stop by and see for yourself! It still has all of our childhood favorites and several new exhibits (both permanent and rotating). Eleanor loves it, it’s close to home, AND it’s educational. That’s the rare Michael Scott “Win, Win, Win” situation!

#okc #oklahoma #oklahomacity #science #sciencemuseumoklahoma #musuem #learn #learning #play #family #familytime #okcrealtor #local #fun #weekend #happy #dad #dadlife #mom #momsofinstagram #learn #learning #education #daughter #daughters #builder #realtor #shawneeok

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Have you seen 'Finity' at @sciencemuseumok yet? The Kirkpatrick Family Fund had the pleasure of dedicating this 25-foot tall interactive sculpture by artist Tom Shannon in the museum's Founders Plaza. ⁠Truly a must-see! ⁠👀⁠
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What a great 3rd Birthday party for our Dresden! 🎉🥳 Thank you to our friends & family for coming out to @sciencemuseumok this morning! @ericpherrera #dresdenlamons #3rdbirthdayparty #sciencemuseumoklahoma

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Our OkState Micro-G teams had a great time at the Science Museum Oklahoma's Tinkertober fair this past Saturday helping kids build model rockets and educating them about STEM!!

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Have you made a trip to the @sciencemuseumok lately? If so, you've seen one of our recently completed projects!

The new sculpture plaza looks great under the bright blue skies! The gathering space outside the main entry of the Science Museum features the towering 25-foot "Finity" sculpture, an interactive, permanent art installation by artist Tom Shannon.

#landscapearchitecture #finityokc #oklahomacity #HFSD #sciencemuseum #artinstallation

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Fun Day!! Awesome place to visit with your kids! amazing, the place is WOW! 💜 #sciencemuseum #learning #science #family #ggfamily #momof4 #mustseewithkids #oklahomacity #sciencemuseumoklahoma

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Today’s ride discovered a great piece of art @sciencemuseumok while out riding for the @greatcyclechallengeusa. I have pledged to ride 650 miles and to raise $2500 for #pediatriccancerresearch. September is #pediatriccancerawarenessmonth. 15,000 children are diagnosised annually, and 38 a day will lose their battle to cancer. This is my third year and biggest goals. It is scary, just imagine how those littles feel. We need to do better and we can. Won’t you help????

Copy and paste this link: —> https://greatcyclechallenge.com/Riders/StacyMorton <— for more ways to be involved.

Not into logging miles, that’s cool, make a donation.

Monetary contributions not in your wheelhouse, that’s cool too. Call, text, message, like, share, comment are all free ways to help, and boy do they really help.

It takes a village is not just a slogan.

#cancersucks #kickcancersbutt #cyclist #rentisdue #outsideisfree #rideyourbike #onlytheoutdoors #gccusa
Photo cred: Shenequa Brown- thank you so much for the photo. Nice to meet you!!!

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Today is about reflection. So we will add two.

Our first one is personal. The Kirkpatrick Family Archive came into its own in 2002, and, at that time, it was part of our daily honor to speak directly to Rear Admiral John E. Kirkpatrick. These were not always long conversations, and they were not consistent for each day of every week because he was as busy as ever even in his nineties.

But we do recall visiting him a few times on this commemorative day in September when events now two decades old were just a year or so removed. The Admiral, as many affectionately knew him, did not need to have dramatic images foisted upon him. He had been aboard a boat that had been torpedoed. He had trained countless sailors for battle, many of whom he knew would not return to their families. He had been part of the last front against the remaining Axis power, and he had been in proximity to those islands when the atomic bomb ended all remaining stalemates.

So when we talked with him, made brief mention of the September 11th anniversary, he was not cynical about the inevitability of conflict, nor was he overly grand about American resolve. Instead, he reflected the kind of patriotism that only emanates from those who retain its characteristic at their core. He did not comment much, but imparted to us a faith that things would get better. It was comforting.

Our second reflection is from photographs taken in April 1977 when a large flag of the United States of America was hoisted atop the Kirkpatrick Center at that point not yet completed. Posting this flag was not sentiment for a retired sailor. It was more important. It was a declaration of the intangible qualities that were being added to the physical efforts of construction. Qualities that endured after The Admiral left the war front in 1945 and the same ones that assured a legacy of success afterward.

We reflect on that demeanor today as we remember other heroes lost, the many who remain, and the future that holds promise.

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For sure could sink your battleship.

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"Finity" is an interactive art installation by Tom Shannon for the Science Museum Oklahoma. At 25 feet tall, the sculpture was designed to withstand the elements including 170 mph winds. Its many shapes is intended to symbolize the intersection of math and physics and as an interactive sculpture it provides an experience most art cannot. Pretty awesome to have collaborated on this project! 🙌
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Today we celebrate a birthday.

Thomas Patten Stafford was born in Weatherford, Oklahoma September 17, 1930. He received a Bachelors in Science from the United States Naval Academy in 1952, just over two decades after his friend and philanthropic partner John E. Kirkpatrick had graduated.

In 1952, Stafford was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force. He graduated from the Air Force Experimental Flight Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in California in 1959 and was selected among the astronauts to participate in the Gemini and later Apollo programs.

Gemini, as its constellation name suggests, was a two-person spacecraft whose missions were preparation for achieving President John F. Kennedy’s declared goal to land on the moon. Stafford led two of the Gemini’s missions.

In May 1969, Stafford was also part of the last Apollo crew before the one led by Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin. The Apollo 10 included John Young and Eugene A. Cernan who together with Stafford orbited the moon and successfully piloted the Lunar Module above its surface.

After retiring from the Air Force in 1979, Stafford would continue in private consulting, especially in the burgeoning computer industry. His role within NASA would remain active as he advised Presidents Reagan and Bush (43) in regards to both the Hubble space telescope and International Space Station.

Rear Admiral John E. Kirkpatrick and Lieutenant General Stafford developed a friendship in the 1970s that endured over decades. It was Stafford who advised Kirkpatrick in the creation of the Air Space Museum at the Kirkpatrick Center which would be overseen by another native Oklahoma pilot, Clarence Page.

Kirkpatrick and Stafford would continue to work together, exchanging letters and celebrating birthdays and anniversaries. Attached here is a copy of a speech delivered by the Admiral for his friend in May 1994 at the University of Oklahoma when Stafford was awarded an Honorary Doctorate.

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