STEMBLEM ON EXHIBITS
Look for our STEMblem icon on exhibits throughout the Science Center that have direct connections to STEM Careers. When you see this icon, you will be able to learn more about how the exhibit with which you are interacting directly correlates to a career in a STEM-related field. Our newest exhibits, The Engineering Lab and Our Changing Earth, are great places to find STEM Career content.
Visit Exhibits
connections in live! science programs
While introducing students to our reptiles, we highlight the array of animal related career opportunities, specifically focusing on exotic pet vets, vet technicians, vet radiology, animal husbandry, and other animal-related careers.
This simple, all ages cart program serves to help illuminate the fact that engineers often imitate nature in the design of innovative ideas and products. We challenges students to think of the next big thing based off their experiences with nature.
This program connects to both Audiologists and Electronics Engineers. The focus is on Audiologists where visitors explore types of hearing aids, how an audiologist would conduct the tests to isolate a hearing issue, and why different people need different hearing aids. Visitors explore what product they would invent that uses bone conduction technology.
While introducing students to our reptiles, we highlight the array of animal related career opportunities, specifically focusing on exotic pet vets, vet technicians, vet radiology, animal husbandry, and other animal-related careers.
In this role-play program, students are hired as canine geneticists and use traditional DNA extraction techniques, similar to dog genetic testing at companies like Embark, to extract and then explore the sequences of different dog traits.
This program connects to Ecologists, Zoologists, Wildlife Biologists, and Animal Scientists. During the program, we focus on new ways to measure the population and biodiversity of an ecosystem using soundscapes.
Visitors use equipment and tools commonly used by molecular biology professionals- from researchers to lab techs and more- as they learn about this field and the necessity of research in genomics.
Challenges visitors as young engineers to explore what happens to homes, neighborhoods, and more as the ground below liquefies during an earthquake. Then, design ways to avoid the dangers of liquefaction.
Explore the fields of robotics and computer programming in collaborative, hands on activity. Use a computer to program a real humanoid robot to talk, move, display images, recognize sights and words, and respond to gestures and button pushes.
Planetary scientists investigate planetary bodies and moons in space. Learn about how and what these scientists look for and what the different features of planets might mean while investigating some planets of our own.
Sponsors
FOUNDING SUPPORTER:
Mandell-Braunstein Family
WITH ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FROM
James Arthur Fairweather and Dayan Moore, Jane I. Milas, William C. Malugen and Nancy Martin, Len and Robyn Wolman, The Harvey Hubbell Foundation, Zachs Family Foundation, Inc., Lizabeth H. and Richard Zlatkus
Mandell-Braunstein Family
WITH ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FROM
James Arthur Fairweather and Dayan Moore, Jane I. Milas, William C. Malugen and Nancy Martin, Len and Robyn Wolman, The Harvey Hubbell Foundation, Zachs Family Foundation, Inc., Lizabeth H. and Richard Zlatkus