An Outstanding Model of an Nonprofit Event that Delivers

💥 The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (Raleigh) opened their Dueling Dinosaurs exhibit in April at a once-in-a-lifetime gala after more than a dozen years of identification, #research, acquisition, and set-up.

👩🏽‍🔬 The event featured over a dozen staff including graduate #researchers, #scientists, #curators, and #explorers - providing #supporters and #stakeholders the opportunity to first-hand gain a deeper appreciation for the organization's #mission. 

👨🏽‍🔬 I found the event's most inspiring part was talking with several people who dedicate their lives to #education and investigation and to learn from them - that far superseded the outstanding food, music, and people (est. 350) surrounding me. 

🕵🏽‍♀️ The photo below is Clayton Phipps, professional cowboy dinosaur hunter who found the Triceratops intersected with a T. Rex by first spotting a pelvis bone visible to his well-trained eye in a Montana stream (the dinos are behind me, Phipps, and Alice Tate). 

😎 Yeah, that's pretty amazing detective work, I'd say. 

===> More on the dinosaurs from the #museum: "“Dueling Dinosaurs,” a major permanent exhibition and laboratory devoted to a truly important paleontological discovery: the most complete fossils of a tyrannosaur and Triceratops ever found, locked together at the time of death," and here: https://lnkd.in/gWe8kEqs

Caroline Masters and Christian Tate - also present and accounted for.