Oddprofessor's Science Center

Oddprofessor's Science Center is a virtual physics lab used by the students at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf over at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The center is open to the public; stop by and see!

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End Polio

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Whole Brain Health

WBH Illusion Pavilion

Vintage Computer Museum

The Space Elevator at Bowness

Raymaker Field Studies Centre at Bowness

WBH Simply Impossible Physics Dome

Parker Solar Probe

National Space Society

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

International Spaceflight Museum

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Seafarer Marine Institute

Silverspar Public Library

Virtual Worlds MOOC 2024

Happy Hippo Building School

Virtual Realty Learning Institute

Awareness Gallery

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Virtual Worlds Education Consortium Eduverse

Virtual Pioneers

The SORBET Project: a COVID-19 response

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Spanish with Eugenia

Orange22

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Ivory Tower Library of Primitives

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