Science Museum Grant

Fellow Brewers and Beer Lovers-- As it now stands, both the Minnesota Homebrewers Association and the Saint Paul Homebrewers Club will be participating in an exciting and rewarding grant opportunity sponsored by the National Science Foundation and administered by the Minnesota Science Museum. Tomorrow afternoon, the representatives from the two clubs (who have most graciously and generously volunteered a great deal of their time to this project!) will meet with Chris Burda, the woman at the Museum who is in charge of the program. Their task tomorrow and during an afternoon workshop on Wednesday is to brainstorm project ideas for the grant money. At the moment, the two clubs are participating separately, but are pooling their monies into one project. The grant provides for each club to get $600 toward a club project, preferably one with a science bent to it. If you have ideas, please e-mail them to me, or to one of the wonderful folks who are shouldering the burden of the work. Basically, anything goes, as long as it can be done for $1200 (or $1600, should the two clubs each pony up $200, which is the earnest amount that is asked for if the clubs do not wish to each donate five hours of service time (not a big deal--next year's Teach a Friend Day could probably count--the Museum is very flexible on how the hours are used)). One idea that has surfaced is for a beautiful brewing process display that could be erected whenever we were demonstrating homebrewing, such as at the Renaissance. With $1200 and the Museum's amazing exhibits crew, that could turn out extremely well! So, please put on your thinking caps, drum up some ideas for cool club projects, then e-mail those ideas to me, or to: Gera Exire La Tour at gera_latour(a)hotmail.com Doug Hoverson at dhoverson(a)cadets.com Kris England at engla008(a)umn.edu Curt Stock at CHS(a)barr.com Jesse Stremcha at stremcha(a)csp.edu These folks have stepped up and will attend the workshops, but there will be plenty of opportunities for us all to pitch in and help make the most of this $1200 project. Thanks for sending them your ideas. Thanks, John