We’re Taking NASA’s STEM Innovation Lab On The Road!

The Museum of Science Fiction is excited to announce a new initiative with NASA to take its STEM Innovation Lab on the road to public libraries across the country. This new effort will continue our mission to inspire young people to become the next generation of astronauts, scientists, and engineers.

NASA’s STEM Innovation Lab focuses on space science content created by NASA scientists, engineers, and educators and taps into new ideas related to the infusion of educational technology into STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) activities, programs, and approaches.

Science fiction has long inspired young people to become STEM professionals who then go on to create the very technology they first imagined in art. We are inspired by the cell phone (first seen on Star Trek as the communicator), by the world of undersea exploration here on Earth and the prospect of the same on other planets in our solar system (first seen in the works of Jules Verne). We are motivated by the ways in which technology of science fiction has inspired scientists and engineers to create lifelike prosthetic limbs for humans, and robots for safer space exploration, marine research, and rescue operations.  We are inspired by the societies science fiction describes, in which equality is universal, poverty is eliminated, and education is freely available to all.

We aim to use science fiction – and science fiction’s vision of a better future – to motivate students, especially those from underserved communities. Through a traveling version of NASA’s STEM Innovation Lab, we hope to boost enrollment in formal STEM academic program areas and raise interest in informal STEM-related activities across society.

Visit NASA’s STEM Innovation Lab website.

Help us inspire young people to become the next generation of astronauts, scientists, and engineers.

Questions?

Please contact info@museumofsciencefiction.org