Education
Wheels give us freedom: Freedom to travel and freedom to learn science. Bicycles, skateboards, trains, cars, and escalators use wheels to help us move. When we make models of wheeled devices, they help us understand physics and give us the...
Networking & Partnerships
Established centres have opportunities to build relationships with emerging centres in developing countries and/or different cultural settings. Emerging centres want to learn from established ones and connect with their ideas and exhibitions....
Science in Society
A number of playful discussion formats are being developed and used in science centres. In addition to aiding informal learning about science, these discussions also support participants in finding and expressing their own views based on facts...
Outreach
Different approaches to social networking are possible because it is a continuously evolving medium. But what seems to be of primary interest is stimulating dialogue. Compared to the official character of a press office, social networks allow...
Networking & Partnerships
This session will assess the contribution of the science centre community to achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals established in the UN’s Declaration on Environment and Development at Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The Toronto...