Pavek Museum

The Broadcast Experience is one of the Pavek Museum's most popular field trips. Participants begin with a 10-15 minute tour of the museum and then they perform a live radio broadcast on KPAV 1200 AM. After the broadcast, which is recorded and sent to teachers/organizers, participants compete against each other in a TV-style game show to reinforce what they learned in the experience. The Electromagnetism Experience (EME) teaches students about the relationship between magnetism and electricity through a series of hands on experiments and ends with a scavenger hunt in the museum. A double experience means that the programs (BE and EME) will run at the same time. Half the students will start with the EME and the other half with the BE and then after a 30-minute lunch break the groups will switch. Volunteer opportunities available for Broadcast Experiences include: - Engineer (runs the radio show - turns on mics, plays music, guides participants through the show, etc.) - Presenter (give the 10-15 minute tour and runs the game show) - Teletype Operator (during the live radio broadcast, a breaking news report is delivered through our teletype. The operator helps the students write their breaking news stories and then sends the news story from the teletype in the exhibit hall to the one in the radio studio) - Assistant (helps the engineer during practice and the live radio show and helps the presenter with the game show) Volunteer opportunities available for Electromagnetism Experiences include: - EME Presenter - the presenter runs the entire program from start to finish: they present the information, demonstrate and oversee the experiments, and manages the students when they are in the exhibit hall for the scavenger hunt. - Program Assistant - The Program Assistant is there to help wherever needed during an educational experience including handing out, picking up, and putting away supplies throughout the program.