{"id":22139,"date":"2025-10-27T12:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T12:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/22139\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T12:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T12:34:07","slug":"great-explorations-childrens-museum-plans-new-discovery-center-with-focus-on-steam-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/22139\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Explorations Children\u2019s Museum plans new Discovery Center with focus on STEAM education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">But as the museum\u2019s reach and preschool enrollment continue to grow, so has its need for space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cWe love this current location, but we have outgrown it. Our preschool alone has a waitlist of 300 kids,\u201d said CEO Angeline Howell in a conversation with St. Pete Rising.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The first step in the museum\u2019s growth is creating a Discovery Center, a new space where kids can explore STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) through hands-on learning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Howell envisions the center as a space where children of all ages can explore, question, and build confidence through interactive experiences. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">For younger visitors, exhibits would emphasize imaginative play and problem-solving. For older students, programming would lean toward career exploration with experiences in chemistry, space, architecture, robotics, and 3D printing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cWe would first need to find a building to open a discovery center, as kids truly learn through hands-on education,\u201d Howell explained. \u201cThe vision is to keep the preschool and museum here [on 4th Street North] until we can eventually move everything to the larger location.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But as the museum\u2019s reach and preschool enrollment continue to grow, so has its need for space. \u201cWe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-22139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}