"The kids really do like it," said Bill Engler, the science coordinator.

She worked as science coordinator for the plasma wave instrument aboard the Galileo spacecraft before becoming the project manager of the Galileo mission.

"It's hard to know what's going on," said Rob Fergus, science coordinator for the National Audubon Society.

"Teachers enjoyed using it and students responded well to it," said Virginia Woods, science coordinator for the 20,000-student school system.

The area "was called the activity station," said Steve Ruff, the museum's science coordinator.

Until last month she was the science coordinator at the Brooklyn New School, where she will teach third grade in the fall.

The museum's science coordinator, also known as Spiderman Steve, will have his live spider friends weave a giant web for onlookers.

"I consider it a fun event," the science coordinator, Joseph Polizzi, said.

As Nerissa Bardfeld, the science coordinator, said, "This is the same water that the dinosaurs drank."

"We want to attract current certified teachers to those other areas," said Michael Heinz, science coordinator for the Department of Education.