Discovery Center at Murfree Spring

The Discovery Center at Murfree Spring will use its grant to convert a retired school bus into a mobile science classroom. The Mobile Super Science Bus, manned by the museum’s Super Science team and volunteer guest scientists, will be used throughout middle Tennessee for outreach visits that feature hands-on discovery-based programs tailored to Tennessee state science curriculum standards. This project addresses the need for substantive informal science education for elementary school students in middle Tennessee and provides an innovative solution to the lack of time and funding for students to visit museums during the school day.