Educational Programs
The museum runs a variety of programs: on-site and off-site, school-based and non-school-based. In 2007, the Sciencenter completed a 5-year master plan for education that outlined three strategies for realizing maximum educational impact: a breadth strategy (focusing on strengthening programming for existing core museum audiences), a depth strategy (focusing on longer, repeated educational programming for middle and high school-aged youth) and a teacher professional development strategy (focusing on elementary science).
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