Imagination Station is celebrating Dad’s on Sunday, June 17, 2012. We will be open from 12pm-5pm and when the kids come with him, Dad gets in FREE*! Bring the whole family down and celebrate Dad’s special day together, exploring, discovering and creating at Imagination Station. *Dad is free with a paid child admission. Not valid with [...]

Sesame Street Live “Elmo’s Super Heroes” Friday, April 27-Sunday, April 29, 2012 SeaGate Convention Centre in Toledo, OH Calling all super heroes!  Super Grover has lost his super-ness!  Never fear, the fabulous five Super Heroes are here — featuring Elmo as Captain Fuzzy!  Elmo, Abby Cadabby, Zoe and all their furry friends are on a [...]

September 1, 2012 10am-5pm We’re inviting teachers and their families to visit Imagination Station and experience our 2 new exhibits, hands-on demonstrations and familiarize themselves with our educator resources to make the most of their upcoming class field trips. Educators that attend the OPEN HOUSE can enter to win a Science Festival for your school! [...]

April 21 & 22 Imagination Station will feature earth friendly activities in Science Studio the weekend of Earth Day, April 21 & 22. Plant a seed inside an egg, learn about the germination process and see what else you can do to help the Earth. Earth Day History Earth Day is a name used for [...]

Imagination Station is celebrating Mom’s on Sunday, May 13, 2012. We will be open from 12pm-5pm and when the kids come with her, Mom gets in FREE*! Bring the whole family down and celebrate Mom’s special day together, exploring, discovering and creating at Imagination Station. *Mom is free with a paid child admission. Not valid [...]

Saturday, April 28, 2012 10am-5pm Imagination Station is excited to be hosting Healthy Kids Day with the YMCA. Summer is the time for kids to get up, get out and grow, but sometimes when the school year ends, so does a child’s exposure to activities that stimulate the body and mind. Healthy Kids Day will [...]

We are open Monday, April 9, 2012 for Spring Break! Imagination Station will be open regular hours 10am-5pm. Something new every time you visit! Check out EGGstreme Science, Mindbender Mansion and Eat It Up! Regular Hours of Operation.

NOW OPEN Presented by: Welcome to Grow U, an interactive exhibition that celebrates the world of agriculture and farming! FARM 101: Know It to Grow It Take your farm knowhow to a whole new level and be the next contestant on FARM 101: Know It to Grow It! This interactive game show takes you on [...]

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May 28, 2012 Imagination Station will be open regular hours 10am-5pm. In celebration of Memorial Day all active, inactive military and veterans are FREE*! *Valid May 28, 2012 only. Not valid with any other offer or discount.

April 3-22, 2012 The Showcase of the Arts, sponsored by the Toledo Symphony League, will be on display at the science center through April 22, 2012. Students from Kindergarten through high school were asked to produce poetry/prose, musical compositions, or mixed medium two-dimensional artwork that they were inspired to create after listening to a series of [...]

March 14, 2012 What piece of the Pi will you be? We’ll attempt to turn everyone into Pi. Visitors will be given a number and asked to add it (in order, of course) to Pi. Come out and help us see how far we can get. Memory Challenge We’re also issuing a challenge that’ll test [...]

St. Patrick’s Day – March 17, 2012 In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, we’ll make all of our really cool science stuff GREEN! AND… Did you know that a Guinness Book of World Records sport cup stacker record holder lives right here in Toledo? Meet Mason Langenderfer, a 6th grader at Ottawa Hills Elementary School.   [...]

Answer this word puzzle to help you on your quest to win a Kindle Fire! Update: Did you find bonus clue #1 particularly challenging? You weren’t alone. A technical glitch made the clue not only incredibly challenging, but impossible. We apologize for the error, but if you enter the word now you’ll get the correct [...]

February 17 & 18, 2012 at the Huntington Center   Feb. 17, 7:30pm Feb. 18, 7:30pm Cliffhangers. Sterilizers. Tsunamis. Hart Attacks. These may sounds like accidents waiting to happen, but in reality, they’re some of the most astounding tricks you’ll ever see. In this Freestyle Motocross tour, the name of the game is “anything goes” [...]

Now Open! Eat Smart. Play Hard. Have Fun. The choice is yours! Imagination Station is excited to announce its newest experience, Eat It Up!, presented by ProMedica. Get your heart pumping as you take on the Wheel of Fire and the Heart Rate Rally, Smash Your Food to smithereens, and literally Get in the Action. [...]

Please RSVP below for the Grow U Grand Opening event Wednesday, May 16, 2012 9:30am Continental Breakfast Reception 10:00am Ribbon Cutting Imagination Station is located at 1 Discovery Way, Toledo, OH 43604 Complimentary valet parking will be available at our main entrance on Summit Street. If you have any questions, please call Anna Kolin at 419.244.2674 [...]

February 29, 2012 What are you doing with your extra 24 hours? Leap Year doesn’t come around often, so make sure to do to it up big by coming in and sharing the day with us. It is a science day after all. It’s basis is in the planetary rotation, which means that inherently it’s [...]

Visitors are invited to build an 18-inch tall tower constructed solely from newspaper and tape that must support the weight of an ordinary baseball.

In honor of our traveling exhibition Mindbender Mansion,  we featured a series of puzzles designed to exercise your mind and entertain your brain! One puzzle lead to the next with bonus clues along the way. All answers helped to solve the final puzzle. All participants that correctly answered the final puzzle were entered to WIN A [...]

June 9 – July 1 Imagination Station brings the farm to downtown Toledo for Farm Fest, a 3-week long event to recognize and celebrate the abundance provided by American agriculture.  If you’re looking to give your kids a ‘down on the farm’ experience but can’t make it out to the country, Farm Fest will offer you [...]

March 31-April 29, 2012 Spring into Imagination Station for EGGciting, EGGcentric activities for the entire month of April. EGGciting activities in Science Studio throughout the month will include: Cook eggs in liquid nitrogen Push an egg into a jar Soak eggs in vinegar and watch how they progress every day Squeeze an egg without breaking [...]

February 20-25 2012 marks the 60th anniversary of National Engineers Week. Help us celebrate as we Think It. Build It. Test It… Do It Again! Explore the engineering design process and discover that creativity and imagination are essential skills for an engineer. One step inside Engineer It!, our learning world dedicated to the engineer within [...]

Monday, February 20, 2012 Imagination Station will be open from 10am-5pm in celebration of Presidents Day.   Ever wonder how Presidents Day came to be? Here’s a little history lesson for you. Presidents’ Day is intended (for some) to honor all the American presidents, but most significantly George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. According to the [...]

Prep4Ed January 17 4-5:30pm We offer this quarterly Open House for all teachers committed to bringing their students to Imagination Station. This program will empower you with inside knowledge of the exhibits and familiarize you with all our educator resources. Chaperones are welcome! For more information or to reserve today, please call 419.244.2674.  

Imagination Station will be open on Martin Luther King Day! Monday, January 16 10am-5pm Here’s a little background information about this federal holiday… Background Martin Luther King was an important civil rights activist. He was a leader in the movement to end racial segregation in the United States. His most famous address was the “I [...]

January 26 6-8pm Be the first to experience this fun and bewildering traveling exhibit for kids of all ages! Enter a puzzling world full of brainteasers and interactive challenges guaranteed to test the brain power and problem solving skills of even the most experienced puzzlers. Be the first to UNLQ TH3 PU22L3 and become a [...]

January 28 – April 29, 2012 Enter the wonderfully puzzling world of Mindbender Mansion, an eclectic place full of brainteasers and interactive challenges guaranteed to test the brain power and problem solving skills of even the most experienced puzzlers. Adults and children alike will enjoy challenging their minds as they try to master each of [...]

January 13 – 15 Sid and his friends explore new things and make lots of discoveries. During Imagination Station’s Little Scientists Week… you can too! Bring your children in to meet Sid and start discovering today! Sid the Science Kid will be making appearances throughout the weekend of Little Scientist Week. Bring your preschoolers out [...]

Friday, January 13 at 11am – SOLD OUT Saturday, January 14 at 11am – SOLD OUT Families with children age 3-8 years old, are invited to participate in a special Sid the Science Kid Family Workshop. This hands-on science investigation is a great way for families to learn together. Watch Sid the Science Kid episodes [...]

December 15-18, 2011 at The Huntington Center Dec. 15 – 7pm Dec. 16 – 7pm Dec. 17 – 11am, 3pm, 5pm Dec. 18 – 1pm, 5pm Discover endless riches when Disney On Ice presents Treasure Trove comes to your hometown!  Disney On Ice sets the gold standard with its newest skating spectacular.  Get tangled up in Disney’s 50th [...]

Now  – January 2, 2012     Visit with Santa December 10 & 11 12-4pm Make Imagination Station a “Must Do” on your holiday list this year with a visit to see the jolly old elf himself, Santa Claus. Visitors will find Santa nestled inside a giant gingerbread castle, a whimsical variation of the time-honored [...]

Imagination Station’s Holiday Hours of Operation Those different than our normal schedule are in BOLD. Christmas Eve – Saturday, December 24 – CLOSED Christmas – Sunday, December 25 – CLOSED Monday, December 26 – OPEN (10am-5pm) Tuesday, December 27 – OPEN (10am-5pm) Wednesday, December 28 – OPEN (10am-5pm) Thursday, December 29 – OPEN (10am-5pm) Friday, December [...]

Saturday, December 17 11am-4pm Penta Career Center Culinary students, the talented creators of the giant gingerbread castle and the gingerbread houses, will be on hand helping kids create mini versions of gingerbread houses made out of graham crackers, royal frosting and candy. This holiday favorite is sure to get families inspired for holiday fun!

Members Only Event Thursday, December 8, 2011 6-8pm Due to the popular demand of this event it is SOLD OUT. Sorry for the inconvenience. Come dressed in your pjs for a cozy evening of cookies and cocoa with Santa Claus! Enjoy storytime with Claus and visit as he roams around the science center saying hello. [...]

Saturday, December 10 11am-4pm Ambassadors from The Toledo Zoo will be visiting the science center with biofacts and a few animals, of course, to see and touch. It’ll be a ferocious good time, so come out and learn about the science that happens at the Zoo. Also check out all of the “cool” science activities [...]

The beautiful cut-paper artistry of Dr. Thomas Clark, a.k.a. Dr. Snowflake, will be on display at Imagination Station through January 2, 2012. Join us in Science Studio throughout the holiday season and try your hand at creating a snowflake of your own. A series of Dr. Snowflake’s books are available for purchase in Science2GO! and [...]

Now – January 2 Vote for your favorite Gingerbread House. Culinary students from Penta Career Center have designed and built a gingerbread village, reflecting the quintessential nature of the season while showcasing delicate details and unique craftsmanship. Every time you look at it, you’ll see something new. Featuring over 40 beautiful constructions, true candy connoisseurs [...]

 December 10 & 11 12-4pm Make Imagination Station a “Must Do” on your holiday list this year with a visit to see the jolly old elf himself, Santa Claus. Visitors will find Santa nestled inside a giant gingerbread castle, a whimsical variation of the time-honored tradition. The house, constructed and decorated by students from Penta [...]

In celebration of two fantastic years of science, the team at Imagination Station has made their musical debut.

Friday, October 28th 11:00am Imagination Station is excited to be welcoming clowns from Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus to be guest demonstrators during our Combustion Demonstration. We’ll be putting them to work (or having fun) alongside our scientists! Be entertained by their frivolity and have your photos taken with them. We hear there [...]

October 7-9th Friday & Saturday – 10am-4pm Sunday – Noon-5pm The Mobile Learning Adventure  will be at Imagination Station on Friday October 7th – Sunday, October 9th.  The PNC Foundation, which receives its principal funding from The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC), is helping children in Toledo, Ohio explore their career dreams while [...]

Camp-In is an overnight program designed to inspire boys and girls in grades 2nd-7th and their accompanying adults to discover science in an entertaining, educational and interactive overnight adventure.  Imagination Station invites you to enter the wonderfully puzzling world of Mindbender Mansion, an eclectic place full of puzzles, brainteasers and interactive challenges guaranteed to test [...]

In honor of the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attack on the U.S., Imagination Station would like to say a special thank you to all the men and women who keep us safe. We are proudly offering free admission to all police, firefighters, EMT’s and military personnel when they show their professional ID. BODIES [...]

Labor Day, Monday, September 5, 2011, Imagination Station is open from 10:00am – 5:00pm.   ADMISSION: Big Kids (13-64) $9.00 Kids (3-12) $7.00 Seniors (65+) $8.00 Kids 2 & under FREE Members FREE

September 24 11am-4pm Imagination Station has commissioned the talented students at Toledo School for the Arts to design and create several rain barrels to be used within the science center. We have an old building that sometimes leaks, so when the rain barrels are all finished, they’ll be thoughtfully placed within the science center on rainy [...]

January 10-15, 2012 Attention Parents and Preschool & Kindergarten Teachers! Mark your calendars for Little Scientists Week!  This special “Sid the Science Kid” themed week is dedicated to our littlest scientists, kindergarten age and younger! Watch your students come to life as they journal their way into discovering the scientist inside with special hands-on inquiry-based [...]

October 22 & 23, 29 & 30 2011 Calling all ghouls and goblins for a hair raising, bone chilling, spine tingling science event like no other. Spooky Science will be filled with self-carving pumpkins, whispy ghosts, boo bubbles, magic potions, ooey gooey slime, and many more spooky illusions all scientifically mastered to put the scare [...]

River Kids is a celebration of healthy living focused on the family. Take part in an obstacle course and physical activities, delicious healthy food demonstrations and activities to inspire families to get fit together. Representatives from some of Toledo’s most family friendly places, including health professionals, will be on hand to answer questions about getting and staying [...]

A sampling of our chemically inspired signature spirits featured at the BASH. Sweet Science 1 1/2 oz Scotch Whisky 1 1/2 oz Orange Juice 1/4 oz Drambuie Shake ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice, strain into a cocktail glass.   Beakers Blue 1 oz Blue Curacao Liqueur 1 oz Bicardi Limon Rum 1 oz Triple [...]

Imagination Station will be open: Saturday, July 2nd – 10:00am-5:00pm Sunday, July 3rd – Noon-5:00pm Monday, July 4th - 10:00am – 5:00pm We’ll be celebrating the 4th of July holiday, “science style“, by shooting off rockets (Alka-Seltzer & water, of course) and exploring the colors of fireworks all weekend long. Gizmo Spotting Facebook Challenge! You might [...]

BODIES REVEALED – This Exhibition is no longer touring at Imagination Station Imagination Station hosted Bodies Revealed from May 2011 – December 4, 2011 Real Human Specimens, Meticulously Prepared and Respectfully Displayed BODIES REVEALED lets visitors of all ages explore deep within the human body in a way that informs but doesn’t overwhelm. As the [...]

April 1-30, 2011 Spring into Imagination Station for EGGciting, EGGcentric activities for the entire month of April. It’s the perfect time to check out our newest EGGxhibits, the BIG DIG and Engineer IT! OPEN 7 days a week in April! Spring Break is here and we have tons of activities to keep you busy! In [...]

Purchase a Large Pizza March 14th – 21st and The Oasis will donate 10% to Imagination Station! While the number Pi may go on forever this promotion is for a limited time, so be sure to stop by either Oasis location to support The Imagination Station! Some Facts about Pi Pi goes on forever – [...]

Advance Auto Parts® Monster Jam, starring the biggest performers on four wheels: Monster Jam monster trucks! The twelve-feet-tall, ten-thousand-pound machines will bring you to your feet, racing and ripping up a custom-designed track full of obstacles to soar over or smash through!  Monster Jam provides a massive night’s entertainment tailored perfectly for your family’s budget, [...]

Back by Popular Demand The BIG DIG is a mammoth exhibit stretching over 6,000 square feet, filled with tons and tons of prehistoric fun! Visitors will have a chance to excavate their way through piles of shale, from right here in Northwest Ohio, in search of fossils that they can take home. Learn how to [...]

February 11 & 12, 2012 Valentine’s Day, February 14 too! In celebration of Valentine’s Day, Imagination Station is sinking our collective teeth into the delicious world of sugar. Check out these great activities: Are you a SuperTaster? Some people have a heightening sense of taste. Try this simple test and see if you are one [...]

Monday, February 21, 2011 We will be open from 10am-5pm. Since the kids are off of school, bring them to Imagination Station where they’ll keep learning even while they are having fun. We’ll be kicking off Engineering Week with cool activities all day long.

February 21-27, 2011 With the opening of our new learning world, Engineer IT!, we are excited to be celebrating National Engineers Week with special activities all week long in Science Studio. Build bridges out of spaghetti and test their strength, build domes from gum drops and toothpicks, discover balloons that neither float or sink, build [...]

Design a Newspaper Tower Saturday, August 13, 2011 10am-5pm Visitors are invited to participate in this Engineering Challenge, brought to us by The Blade. Teams must build an 18-inch tall tower constructed solely from newspaper and tape that must support the weight of an ordinary baseball. Once completed, the tower must ‘Pass the Test’ – [...]

The supercross stars of tomorrow can be found today in the AMA Arenacross Series. As the official feeder system for supercross, arenacross attracts the best up-and-coming riders in the world, all set to prove that they can make it to the top tier of the sport. Staged in intimate arena settings, arenacross tracks are among [...]

2011 Pedometer Challenge Attention Teachers: We’re asking your class to participate in a pedometer challenge, by walking to Cape Canaveral, Florida. That’s just 1,112 miles (or for a classroom of 25 students, that’s only 44.5 miles each.) Please have your students track how far they walk each day using the pedometer provided to them and [...]

Farm Fest March 22-27, 2011 Imagination Station brings the farm to downtown Toledo for Farm Fest, a weeklong event to recognize and celebrate the abundance provided by American agriculture. Throughout the week visitors can: Milk a life-size fiberglass cow Learn about soil by getting up close with a giant interactive worm Pedal a mini tractor [...]

Winners of The Showcase of the Arts, sponsored by the Toledo Symphony League, will be on display at the science center through April 25, 2010. Students from Kindergarten through high school were asked to produce poetry/prose, musical compositions, or mixed medium two-dimensional artwork that they were inspired to create after listening to a series of [...]

Imagination Station will be open on Monday, January 17th, 2011 from 10am to 5pm. This will be your last chance to visit Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of The Universe at Imagination Station. This exhibition celebrates the achievements of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope by magnificently displaying and describing the wonders of the night sky. New [...]

Crime Scene Science Gizmo’s gone missing! Camp-in is an overnight program designed to inspire boys and girls, grades 2-6, to discover science in an entertaining, educational and interactive way. The program offers single gender and co-ed nights, one night a year for girls in grades 7-12, and one night for families. This program includes hands-on [...]

April 3, 2011 1-4pm Make your preschoolers day! Nickelodeon, Buckeye CableSystem and Imagination Station invite Toledo-area kids to meet Diego, star of Nickelodeon’s Go Diego, Go! on Sunday, April 3, 2011. Diego will be available to pose with kids and families to take photos between 1 and 4pm. Diego Marquez is an 8-year old action-adventure [...]

The Imagination Station will be closed on April 24th in celebration of Easter Sunday.

May 6-8, 2011 Imagination Station is pleased to be welcoming the unique artistic talent of Michelle Stitzlein, from Baltimore, Ohio, as she leads visitors in creating a permanent art fixture for the science center, made of bottlecaps! She’ll be asking visitors to assist her, both in collecting plastic bottlecaps over the next several months and [...]

2012 Summer Camps For ages 7-12 (2nd-7th grade in the fall) Campers Receive: Daily instruction, 9am-4:30pm Take home activities Camp t-shirt 2 snacks daily Simulator theater ride Extended care available from 8am-5:30pm at no additional cost Members              $165.00 Non-Members $195.00 Discounted Camps SOLD OUT! Register Online Now! Summer Camp [...]

Saturday, June 25th H2OOOOOOOh! Rocket Challenge Discover the Engineer within… This exciting science challenge, brought to Imagination Station by The Blade, gives kids of all ages the opportunity to design and build their own rocket. We’ll provide everything that you need (bottles, paper, tape, water, etc), you just need to bring the idea and the [...]

Imagine a Season of Discovery! Holiday Hours for 2010: Friday, December 24 – CLOSED Saturday, December 25 – CLOSED Sunday, December 26 – Open – 12:00-5:00pm Monday, December 27 – OPEN – 10:00am-5:00pm December 28-December 31 – OPEN – 10:00am-5:00pm Saturday, January 1 – CLOSED

Imagination Station is celebrating Grandparents on Sunday, September 11th , 2011. We will be open from 12pm-5pm and when grandkids come with you, Grandparents receive $10 off a grandparent’s membership.* *valid September 11, 2011 only. Must be redeemed on site. No other discounts apply. New memberships only.

We are celebrating science with an explosive event. On behalf of the kids who visit us, the Imagination Station Board of Directors and our entire team would like to thank everyone who made THE BASH2 a HUGE success! THE BASH2, Imagination Station’s annual fundraiser, infuses the sciences of taste and sound into one unforgettable evening, [...]

October 20: Members Only Monster Bash 6:00-8:00pm Calling all ghouls and goblins! Members can enjoy this spooky evening, just for them, filled with special activities and demonstrations designed to take the scare out of scary, so bring the whole family in for this eerie member party. For reservations and information, call 419.244.2674 ext. 198. Members [...]

October 22, 23 & 29 Have an eerie good time this October as we celebrate Spooky Science. Science Studio will feature spooky activities and our live demonstrations will leave you howling for more.

November 8-12, 2011 “Chemistry—Our Health, Our Future!” The Toledo Section of the American Chemical Society (ACS) will be at Imagination Station all week to celebrate the wonder of chemistry! This year’s theme, “Chemistry – Our Health, Our Future!” will explore the positive impacts of chemistry as it relates to nutrition, hygiene and medicine. Visitors will [...]

A. Contrary to popular belief, snowflakes (or snow crystals) can be identical. Read more…

On display now at Imagination Station! During the past two months, students in Penta Career Center’s Culinary Arts program have been busy creating a six-foot tall, gingerbread house.

Thursday, December 9th 6:00-8:00pm This is a special invitation for Imagination Station members! We invite you and your family to join us for a Members Only Open House at the science center. Enjoy extra special discounts in the Science2GO! gift shop, tasty treats like hot cocoa, cookies and liquid nitrogen ice cream and of course good [...]

We will be closed on Thursday, November 25th in celebration of the Thanksgiving holiday!

The beautiful cut-paper artistry of Dr. Thomas Clark, a.k.a. Dr. Snowflake will be on display at Imagination Station this holiday season.

Free admission for Veterans today – Nov. 11, 2010.

Saturday, December 4, 2010 11:00am Imagination Station is welcoming an engineer who has dedicated his career to the next generation of space exploration – the James Webb Space Telescope. Brent Bos will be presenting The James Webb Space Telescope, “The First Light Machine”, which will focus on the technological advances that space exploration has taken [...]

Saturday, December 11, 2010 1:30pm – 4:00pm If your son or daughter has hinted that what they really, really want this holiday season is to see the stars, then a telescope purchase may be in your near future.  This type of purchase tends to intimidate many a parent, so the representatives from the Toledo Astronomical Association [...]

Meet a Harlem Globetrotter! Thursday, December 15th 10:30-11:30am Firefly Fisher will be at Imagination Station talking with visitors about how science meets basketball.  

Monday, December 27, 2010 10:00am-5:00pm Deana Coupar with Spotlight Faces, will be on hand turning clean little faces into fantasy canvases. Her beautiful face painting techniques make an ordinary Monday into something special, and it all comes off with soap and water. She’ll also be applying airbrush tattoos to those who dare to wear them. [...]

Tuesday, December 28, 2010 11:00am-3:00pm Clark will join us on Tuesday, December 28, from 11:00am-3:00pm to work one-on-one with visitors, sharing with them the secrets of his talent and inspiring them to create their own geometric art. Throughout the holiday season, join us in Science Studio and try your hand at creating a snowflake of your [...]

Monday, January 2, 2012 10:00am-5:00pm Demonstrations Times in the Extreme Science Theater 11:30am & 2:30pm Jake Maloney, a.k.a. YoJake, professional yo-yo player, performer and teacher is one of the highest ranked yo-yo performers in Michigan. At 21 years old, he has consistently been one of the top players in the world since 2002. YoJake regularly [...]

Thursday, November 4, 2010 10:30am – Kim deGroh – Hubble Space Telescope – 19 Years in Space 11:00 – Elaine Pappas – A Day in Space Kim de Groh, Sr. Materials Research Engineer in the Space Environment Branch and Elaine Pappas, Administrative Specialist, both from the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, will be [...]

Saturday, November 13, 2010 11:00am – Russ Werneth 2:00pm – Scott Altman Recently retired NASA astronaut, Scott Altman, will be visiting the science center and sharing with visitors his personal experiences as he traveled around the world in the space shuttle. Also, returning to the science center is NASA Engineer, Russell Werneth, who led the [...]

Scott D. Altman, born August 15, 1959 in Lincoln, Illinois, received his bachelor of science degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from the University of Illinois in May, 1981, and a master of science in aeronautical engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in June 1990. EXPERIENCE: Commissioned as an Ensign in the United States Navy [...]

Sept. 24 – Jan. 17 Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe, our new traveling exhibition, opens on September 24 and runs through Monday, January 17, 2011. This visually stimulating exhibition celebrates the achievements of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope by magnificently displaying and describing the wonders of the night sky. New Views of the [...]

November 9-12 Little Astronauts, Big Universe! During this special space-themed week for our littlest scientists (kindergarten and younger), your kids become the stars! Little Astronauts, Big Universe will feature a series of activity tables and story times designed to empower children to reach for the stars and get them dreaming about what they might become. Upon [...]

October 19-23 Chemistry is everywhere, whether prominent as a science fair project or tucked behind the scenes of a movie set or book. Explore the special effects in movies to appreciate that it is not magic, but rather common chemical concepts which explain the mystery behind the “magic” that is shown. Imagination Station is exploring [...]

Saturday, October 16 10:00am-4:00pm Come down and explore Imagination Station, and while you’re at it, you can help to starve a vampire by giving blood to someone who really needs it. We are proud to be hosting a blood drive in partnership with the American Red Cross and WT05. To schedule an appointment call 1-800-828-1975 [...]

Have an eerie good time this October as we celebrate Spooky Science all month long. Science Studio will feature spooky activities and our live demonstrations will leave you howling for more.

Member’s Night at Imagination Station, Thursday, September 23, 2010, 6-8pm Members get a sneak peek at the Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe Exhibit before it opens to the public.

Mark your calendar- To really get a full grasp on what Imagination Station can do to help you and your students reach your classroom goals, we invite you to join us! EDUCATOR OPEN HOUSE Tuesday, September 21st from 4-7pm

Imagination Station will be installing new experiences during our annual fall cleanup, September 7-23. We will be temporarily closed to the public during this time and will re-open on Friday, September 24.