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Learning heats up this summer at National Memorial
by okcfriday
IIt’s a busy summer of impactful pro‐gramming at the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum.
On July 7, Krista Doll will lead a private Eyewitness Tour through the Museum. Krista and her brother Kyle were con‐fronted with the unthinkable when their mother, Jamie Genzer was killed in the Oklahoma City bombing. Jamie was a Federal Employees Credit Union loan offi‐cer and served on the board of directors at America’s Kids Day Care in the Murrah Building. Today, Krista is a school coun‐selor where she pulls from her own jour‐ney to help others. Eyewitness tours take place on the first Friday of each month, 8–9:30 a.m.
The Memorial Museum will host a Summer STEM Series on Tuesdays in July to help students of all ages learn the les‐sons of the OKC bombing while learning about STEM with experts in the innovative Inasmuch Uncover‐Discover STEM Lab.
• On July 11, students will try to answer the question of how we can build struc‐tures better able to withstand disasters with Benham, an architecture and engi‐neering company.
The Memorial Museum will host a Summer STEM Series on Tuesdays in July to help students of all ages learn the lessons of the OKC bombing while learning about STEM with experts in the innovative Inasmuch Uncover-Discover STEM Lab.
• The Oklahoma Forestry Service will lead students in an investigation of envi‐ronmental science on July 18. Students will learn how the bomb site became a beautiful memorial and about the benefits of plants and trees in downtown OKC before creating their own landscape design for the site.
• On July 25, students will become forensic investigators with the UCO Forensic Science Institute and follow the trail of evidence using real artifacts to solve the case.
The Memorial Museum will hold a teacher workshop on July 26 that will do a deep dive into the investigation. Drawing from experts who worked the OKBOMB case and hearing first person accounts, teachers will return to the classroom this year with a FREE forensic science kit and a deeper appreciation for the lessons learned from this tragedy.
Learn more at MemorialMuseum.com.
