Great Lakes Science Center

This week the Science Center hosted more than 600 middle and high school students for the fourth annual Manufacturing Day, presented by Rockwell Automation. Students from 26 schools across Northeast Ohio interacted with representatives from leading manufacturing and technology companies and nearly a dozen education partners during the event. Interactive sessions for the students included insights from industry professionals on their manufacturing career experiences through mentorship sessions, hands-on activities, and a Manufacturing Career Expo. A special thank you to the local manufacturing partners and their corporate volunteers including Rockwell Automation, Swagelok, Applied Industrial Technologies, Olympic Steel, PPG, Héroux-Devtek, Lincoln Electric, The Lubrizol Corporation, Saint-Gobain, Sherwin-Williams, The Timken Company, Trane Technologies and Worthington Steel. We'd also like to thank our community education and advocacy partners, including Cuyahoga Community College, Baldwin Wallace University, MAGNET: The Manufacturing Advocacy and Growth Network, The University of Akron, Washkewicz College of Engineering at Cleveland State University, Forging Industry Association, Cuyahoga Valley Career Center, Women in Manufacturing, Precision Metalforming Association, Northeastern Ohio Science & Engineering Fair and the Ohio Lottery Commission. These students are the future and we look forward to continuing to inspire the next generation of problem-solvers and thought leaders.

Congratulations to our board member David M Reynolds and LaRese Purnell, MBA who were recognized for their outstanding service and leadership as 2024 Notable Black Leaders by Crain's Cleveland Business.

What a fantastic day! Thank you and your team for an incredible presentation.

We are so thrilled to announce that Great Lakes Science Center President & CEO Dr. Kirsten Ellenbogen will be speaking at the 20th Anniversary of the Board on Science Education this Thursday, September 19th in Washington D.C. Through speakers, panels, and discussions the science education community will come together to celebrate and look ahead to the next 20 years of the Board on Science Education.

Our President & CEO Dr. Kirsten Ellenbogen will be the opening speaker at Cleveland WITCON 2024 - The Premier Cleveland Women in Tech Conference by getWITit.  Dr. Ellenbogen will discuss collaboration, embracing change as well as mentorship, leadership and allyship. Her presentation will begin at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, September 10. getWITit is the leading organization dedicated to supporting women in technology, getWITit is proud to present an in-person conference event focused on fostering collaboration and breaking boundaries for women and non-gender-conforming individuals in the tech industry.

Great Lakes Science Center President & CEO Dr. Kirsten Ellenbogen will be presenting at The Center for Humanities Communication’s “Humanities Communication Convening” tomorrow, September 6, 2024.  The Humanities Communication Convening will be a first-of-its-kind sit-down between humanities leaders and leaders in public communications in science and other areas. The goal is to help the humanities learn from those engaged in effective public engagement how best to develop robust, structured, and professionally recognized training and resources for “humanities communicators."

Students from the Great Lakes Science Center Robotics Initiative arrived in the Dominican Republic and will be assisting medical personnel at Laboratorio Ortopédico over the course of 10 days. ✈️ Led by JonDarr Bradshaw, students will be fabricating and assembling 3-D printed, upper-limb prosthetic devices for children in need. They will also be training the medical personnel at the clinic to use 3-D printers to produce low-cost prosthetics for families. We are so proud of the life-changing work these students have committed to, and are so excited to share more of their journey! 

We're excited to have Kirsten Ellenbogen, President & CEO at the Great Lakes Science Center as one of our amazing speakers for WITCON2024! There's still time to register if you haven't to hear Kirsten speak at our conference this fall! Dr. Kirsten Ellenbogen energetic leadership has included a range of educational partnerships, including a collaboration with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District that reaches every 6th, 7th, and 8th grade class with programming on everything from circuitry to blockchain. The Science Center has been honored for this work and was named a 2021 National Medal for Museum and Library Service finalist, recognizing their pioneering approaches and commitment to community solutions. Her research and evaluation brings together science communication, rhetoric, and informal science education. Her leadership over the last thirty years has advanced informal science education through the Center for Informal Learning and Schools, the Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network, the Museum Learning Collaborative, and as co-principal investigator of the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education. She serves as co-chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Standing Committee on Advancing Science Communication, served on the committee that produced the report Learning Science in Informal Environments: People, Places & Pursuits, and most recently has been appointed to the Board on Science Education. Recent recognition includes the Community Inspiration Award at STEMCON, Crain’s Women of Note, Cleveland Magazine Women Living STEM, and Cleveland 500 Leaders, Doers, Visionaries, & Idea Generators Who Shape the City. She has volunteered on a number of local and national boards including serving as president of the Visitor Studies Association and as Program Chair of the Association of Science & Technology Centers. She currently serves as Board chair of the Cleveland Water Alliance. #WITCON2024 #getWITit #networking #techworkshops #technology

Thank you to Regency Construction Services, Inc., Cleveland Builds, and NAWIC Cleveland Chapter #156 for volunteering with us at our Camp Curiosity: Summer Camps and showing the next generation what career possibilities in STEM look like! 💡 Camp Curiosity presented by: The Timken Company

All guests are welcome to visit the Science Center on Sunday, June 23 for a day of FREE general admission presented by the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Supporting Foundation! General admission includes the NASA Glenn Visitor Center, the Polymer Funhouse (for those 7 and younger), special programming, and hundreds of hands-on and interactive science exhibits including our special summer exhibition, TapeScape: International Tape Station! #StayCuriousCLE