Oregon Museum of Science and Industry

The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry will update the museum’s labs to improve the educational spaces for youth educational programming. For the project, the museum will partner with Project LEDO, a Portland-based community organization that promotes equity in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics (STEAM). To inform the project, staff will host family advisory workshops, in which participants will develop prototypes for new lab experience strategies. Building on work completed for a previous IMLS award, this project will revise the museum’s Culturally Relevant Experiences Toolkit to equip museum staff to develop and facilitate learning that centers underrepresented voices in STEAM. Staff will receive professional development training in leading hands-on STEAM activities and will share project learnings and results at an annual educator summit.