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Easy DIY Classroom Chemistry Project: Atom Models

Posted on Mon, Jan 31, 2022

Mobile Ed Productions, Inc. has been making education entertaining for over forty years! Through hands-on activities, thought-provoking questions, unforgettable performances, and amazing props in our educational programs, we’ve made students across the country fall in love with learning. Similarly, our team recommends educators use hands-on activities in their classrooms to engage students in unique ways, practice teamwork, and develop problem-solving skills.

The Critics Have Spoken – Toma's School Assemblies Rock!

Posted on Tue, Jun 3, 2014

My apologies as it has been a long time since we commented in our blog. Mea culpa...all I can say is that the Spring time is very busy around Mobile Ed getting everything lined up and in order for the new school year.

Kidz Science Safari Hands On Science Assembly to Tour Again in 14-15

Posted on Mon, Apr 7, 2014

Just a quick bit of excitement this morning! This year we premiered our flagship school assembly The STEM Museum. That program has sold out quickly and is selling out quickly again for 2014-15. And well it should! This cutting edge school assembly brings a hands on science museum, complete with state of the art 3D printing and robotics into your school for the day. Already a major hit, with universal acclaim following its groundbreaking tour, The STEM Museum is being further improved in several ways for the new year, including the addition of the fabulous NAO Robot.

Mobile Ed's Top Ten School Assemblies From 2013

Posted on Tue, Jan 7, 2014

Well, 2013 is in the history books now, so we thought you might like a quick recap of our top ten school shoes from last year. Here is what we had for you! Not that these are the best shows we have ... all our shows are absolutely awesome! But of all the more than thirty great school programs we offer, these are the shows you, our clients, scheduled the most often! These are the top ten most often scheduled school shows from 2013.

Of Space, and Heros and the Stars

Posted on Fri, Oct 4, 2013

Today is October 4, and whether or not you know it, today marks some important anniversaries in the exploration of Space.

Mobile Ed has always been interested in Space. Way back in the dark ages we began touring withour Sky Dome portable planetariums and taking them into schools so that young students could begin to understand the universe in which we live. And through the years we have kept a keen eye on all the events and breakthroughs connected with Space and Space exploration.

New School Science Assembly Show Visits Indiana

Posted on Wed, Nov 21, 2012

2012 Will Be A Great Year For School Science Assemblies !

Posted on Mon, Dec 12, 2011

As we grow close to the end of 2011 we are looking back and we are pretty geeked about some of our accomplishments this year! Number one among them is the fact that we are still here!

Michigan Science Assemblies and The Way Kids Learn

Posted on Wed, Aug 17, 2011

We all know that kids need to learn about science. It is crucial that we train up a new generation of engineers and research scientists who will ensure that this country stay at the forefront in an area that is so important in this new technological world in which we live. But how do we get kids to be interested in science? Obviously, some kids have an innate curiosity about such things but for others... well... take my niece, for example. Start talking about science and her eyes roll back in her head as though I had just suggested we spend an afternoon watching paint dry.
For many years, while my own two children were in elementary school here in Michigan, I was the Dad in charge of scheduling school assemblies. I brought in a lot of different programs. The principal at the time was a really wise man named Jim Felix. Jim had been principal at our school in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan for many years. A tall, Gregory Peck kind of fellow, Jim had experience and wisdom to be envied by any young principal. Every year I would meet with him and go over the programs I was suggesting, and listen to him fill me in on anything good he had come across and we would decide which shows to bring in for the school. Jim was always interested in the science programs. He said he believed that part of the reason our school did so well in science scores was that every year we hit the kids with at least one and sometimes two different science assemblies. Good ones. Not glorified “magic” shows, but real science like chemistry, physics, astronomy and so on. And it did, indeed, show up in the science scores every year. The students really liked science and wanted to learn more.
That is the key to science assemblies. It isn’t what facts the kids actually learn in the assembly that is important. What is important is that they see that science is not boring, not dry, not something to be avoided, but rather how exciting it can be to witness chemical reactions, or the effects of Liquid Nitrogen or to ride on a hovercraft. What is important is to give them an enthusiasm for the subject which will allow skilled teachers to then fill their minds through classroom followups. Science assemblies are like can openers for the brain. They open up a young mind so the teachers can then fill it with all the good stuff kids need to learn.

Geoff Beauchamp is the Regional Manager of Mobile Ed Productions where "Education Through Entertainment" has been the guiding principal since 1979. Mobile Ed Productions produces and markets quality educational school assembly programs in the fields of science, history, writing, astronomy, natural science, mathematics, character issues and a variety of other curriculum based areas. In addition, Mr. Beauchamp is a professional actor with 30 years of experience in film, television and on stage. He created and still performs occasionally in Mobile Ed's THE LIVING LINCOLN.