Hello,

    I second Robin's comments.  Several families in our area have linked up
and come to our site for a program just like any other school group. We have
also had several members of homeschool families join us as volunteers due to
their availability during the day and the flexibility of their schedules.
The homeschool students got some great experience as volunteer interpreters
working with the public, practiced their public speaking, and used
interpreter training as another facet of their history lessons. Word of
mouth among homeschool families has also brought them out for programs,
brought us new volunteers, and new supporters in our community.

Brent Wielt
Homestead Prairie Farm
Macon County Conservation District
Decatur, Illinois



----- Original Message -----
From: Robin Frisch <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: Museums and the home school community


> Hi Melinda,
> My name is Robin Frisch and I worked at DuPage Children's Museum in
> different capacities, one of them being School Program Manager. While I
was
> in that position, I worked with quite a few home schooling groups. They
were
> very appreciative of the opportunities the museum gave them to enhance
their
> home schooling curriculum. Most of the groups in our area had linked up
with
> each other in some capacity, and they would sometimes request outreach
> programs off site, and other times come to the museum for a focused field
> trip type of experience. We tried to make sure they received all relevant
> mailings and helped them in any way we could.
>
> They were also a wonderful resource as kids that were available in the
day,
> if we had some protyping to try out. Many times we would have out of town
> consultants come in to help us develop new exhibits, and we needed kids in
> the day time to help us in the research. They were usually very eager to
> help us out in this regard, it was great!
>
> Hope this helps! Feel free to write me at [log in to unmask] if you
> have any further questions that I can help you with.
> Robin
>
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