A hands-on exhibit for children that focuses on many of the complex systems addressed by SFI scientists is in the initial planning stage at the Santa Fe Children’s Museum.
The Delle Foundation, an independent charitable organization previously spearheaded by SFI’s late founding president George Cowan, has awarded a two-year, $150,000 grant to the Santa Fe Children’s Museum to work with SFI scientists and the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs to create an exhibit and learning lab for children ages 9-12. Students at New Mexico Highlands University will help design the first exhibit, scheduled to open at the museum in 2013.
“The learning lab and exhibit project will be a gem in New Mexico and raise the profile of the Santa Fe Children’s Museum on the national level,” says Anna Marie Tutera Manriquez, the Museum’s outgoing executive director who applied for the grant.
George Cowan and SFI Trustee Bill Enloe will be honored at the Museum’s annual gala on May 19.