science center

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

“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”

“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.”

“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”

“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.”

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