Yellowstone Old Faithful Visitor Education Center

黄石公园基金会将在四年多的时间里，为黄石国家公园老忠实间歇泉的一个最先进的游客教育中心开发、评估和安装展览和综合教育项目。该设施将帮助每年近260万现场游客和数千万在线游客了解和欣赏地球上最重要的间歇泉和温泉，以及生活在这些热水中的独特微生物生命形式。展览和项目将重点关注当前和新兴的研究，这些研究对理解和解决当今社会面临的环境问题至关重要。游客和远程学习者将了解为什么对黄石温泉的研究推动了各种科学和技术领域的进步，以及那里发生的自然过程如何影响他们的日常生活。除了所呈现的各种科学观点外，早期探险者、游客、艺术家和印第安人对黄石公园的看法将有助于使展览和相关项目与更广泛的观众联系起来。展品和视听媒体将是多语言的，使用最合适的当前技术，以黄石公园游客使用的四种主要非英语语言呈现信息。特别强调的是为公园周围三州地区的学校团体提供课程活动的发展，包括学生的虚拟实地考察。

The Yellowstone Park Foundation will work over four years to develop, evaluate and install exhibits and integrated educational programs for a state-of-the-art visitor education center at Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone National Park. This facility will help the nearly 2.6 million on-site annual visitors and the tens of millions of on-line visitors understand and appreciate the most significant display of geysers and hot springs on Earth and the unique microbial life forms that live in these thermal waters. The exhibits and programs will focus on current and emerging research critical to understanding issues and solving environmental problems facing society today. Visitors and distance learners will understand why research on Yellowstone's hot springs has spurred advances in various scientific and technological fields, and how the natural processes occurring there affect their everyday lives.In addition to the various scientific perspectives presented, the ideas about Yellowstone held by early explorers and visitors, artists and Native Americans will help make the exhibits and related programs relevant to a broader audience. The exhibits and audiovisual media will be multi-lingual, using the most appropriate current technology to present information in the four major non-English languages spoken by Yellowstone visitors. A special emphasis will be placed on the development of curriculum-based activities that serve school groups from the tri-state area surrounding the park, including virtual field trips for students.