If you wanted a short list of all the educational and entertainment value delivered in every visit to Aurora's Sci-Tech Hands On Museum, you would have to limit your search to museum programs that haven't been created, enhanced or improved in the last year because that list is a long one.

 

The museum, in operation since 1987, serves over 75,000 county residents a year with a wide range of programs and hands-on exhibits geared to school-aged children and their families according to Museum Executive Director, Carol Rehtmeyer.

 

Since Carol went from Board member to Director back in November, the Museum has:

Launched a new Website

Opened the SciTech Cafe

A new look and new products for the SciTech Museum Store

Created an Educational Theatre Group

Re-modeled the museum's cafeteria and many of its classrooms

Created a Pre-school

Partnered with a nationally known Educational Provider to Offer ACT and SAT Prep Seminars to College-bound Students

Added extra Classes to Popular Programs like its Summer Camps

 

The SciTech Discovery Preschool, opening in late fall that will serve up to 36 pre schoolers between the ages of 3 and 5, will be one of the only S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) curriculum based preschools in the country, according to Rehtmeyer.

 

Also slated for the fall is an all-new educational theatre group " that will surprise and delight visitors and schools with our very own educational theater," Rehtmeyer said.

 

"Things have been moving so fast at the museum, in fact, that we're having a hard time keeping up with all the fresh content demands of the new website, which was handled all in-house with a limited staff," Rehtmeyer said, "but we'll get there..."