Rochester Museum and Science Center

The Rochester Museum and Science Center will develop an interactive exhibit component—the “Inventor Center”— of the larger Inventing Futures exhibit. The primary purpose of the “Inventor Center” is to create a participatory space where museum visitors will develop creative critical thinking and social skills through hands-on engagement. Visitors are invited to design and build based on authentic problems faced by the industry and academics. The exhibit will reach over 400,000 annual visitors. Visitors will understand the inventive process and find it accessible and relevant to their lives, get interested and excited in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math), learn skills that promote critical and creative thinking, and understand the social and scientific processes that contribute to contemporary innovation and invention.