science center

plural science centers · alternative science centre

1. An organization, location, or virtual location where science is done or exhibited, either professionally or educationally.

   Intel's hands-on science centers were so successful with students that the New Mexico State Department of Education adopted them as a model for schools.

   2000 July/August, Edward E Gordon, “Help wanted: Creating tomorrow's work force”, in Futurist, volume 34, number 4, page 48

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   Founded in 1967 as a private, nonprofit science center, Talcott attracts thousands of students from the region to its daylong and weekend sessions to supplement their regular science curriculum

   1991 December, G. Keizer with D. M. Kennedy, “Class acts”, in Omni, volume 14, number 3, page 42

   Gatorade Sports Science institute(R) Committed to providing information in exercise science and sports nutrition. Visit the sports science center at www.gssiweb.com for practical training information

   2001 September 28, “Skills: Which wheel should you draft?”, in Bicycling, volume 42, number 9, page 24

   Take Washington D.C.'s much-heralded makeover of Union Station, for example. Or in the Midwest, where adaptive reuse has driven lavish restorations of big stations in St. Louis, now primarily a marketplace, and in Kansas City, where a science center is the main tenant.

   2001 April 18, Ross Atkin, “Back on track”, in Christian Science Monitor