WFSB Weather Studio
 The Connecticut Science Center is partnering with WFSB Channel 3 to present a real TV weather bureau and an exciting educational weather forecasting exhibit. The bureau and exhibit will include live weather instruments, computers and other technology which visitors and Channel 3 meteorologists alike will use to predict weather in Hartford and around Connecticut. The exhibit will include up-to-the-minute information provided by high-tech Channel 3 weather reporting equipment installed in the bureau and outdoors in the Center’s Roof Garden. A major feature of the exhibit will be an interactive TV weather center set, where visitors can present their own forecasts on camera. Visitors will experience what it means to translate weather data and conditions into predictions, and then work with cutting edge graphics and technology to explain their findings in a TV weathercast to take home. With Channel 3 broadcasting weather live from the same location, visitors will also get to see real meteorologists in action and learn the science of weather from the pros.
Read More: WFSB's Website & CSC Press Release
Climate Change Theater
Global Warming is a major issue in science and is expected to impact the future of our planet and our way of life in profound ways. Much of recently observed global warming is caused by our own actions, meaning there are things we can all do to slow the warming trend and avoid damages it can otherwise cause. Learn about global warming in our Climate Change Theater with an engaging Climate Change Show filled with rigorous science, humor, appealing animation and surprising theatrical effects. You will have the opportunity to participate in facilitated discussions that will certainly provoke reflection and action. It’s time to understand our role in the preservation of our planet. Join us at this important exhibit.
Over the Long Run
Everyone has an inner geologist in them. Let yours come out and explore at the Over the Long Run exhibit where you can investigate an actual sample of soils from deep underneath the Science Center presented against a graphic panel. Moving a touch screen monitor along the core’s length, you will get a simulated magnified picture of the sedimentary stories, and in the “hot spots” of the core, you’ll receive a much more detailed story and video clips. Core samples are really interesting because they show the variations of climate, species, and other sedimentary deposits that have occurred over geologic history. What was happening here 1,000 years ago?
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