Archive: Arts & Entertainment

This fall Sciencenter visitors will experience Tech City, the exhibition that has traveled the country and introduced over 1 million museum-goers to engineering and real-world problem solving.  Tech City opens at the Sciencenter on Saturday, September 25 with special hands-on activities throughout the day.  A special exhibition preview for Sciencenter members will be held on Friday, September 24 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Tech City invites visitors of all ages and abilities to “become engineers for the day” by fixing traffic flow problems, building bridges, and designing other structures to withstand the forces of nature.  Tech City features twelve exhibits, including a sound studio where visitors can produce their own recordings using a variety of sound effects, Design a Plaza that allows visitors to create various geometric patterns to tile a plaza in the most cost-effective manner, and Earthquake where visitors are challenged to build and test structures against a simulated earthquake tremor.

A fun, fast-paced video entitled Ask an Engineer forms part of the exhibition. Three-thousand copies of this award-winning, Sciencenter original video have been distributed to museums and schools across the United States as part of National Engineers Week since 2005.

Tech City is a 3,000-square-foot exhibition that was developed by the Sciencenter in partnership with Cornell University with support from the National Science Foundation.  Since its completion in 2003, the exhibition has visited museums in California, Louisiana, Florida, Illinois, Tennessee, North Carolina and Vermont. Sciencenter visitors helped shape the exhibition by providing feedback while the exhibition was under development at the Sciencenter from 2000-2003.

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