Science Museum of Minnesota gets $2.5M to expand STEM resources for rural educators through network of centers

SAINT PAUL, Minn. — For more than a decade, the Science Museum of Minnesota has maintained a “Lending Library” that teachers can use to borrow interactive exhibits for their students. 

The Science Museum of Minnesota has received $2.5 million in federal funding to create a network of Regional STEM Educator Resource Centers in order to share these resources with teachers and students in rural Minnesota.

“This has been a great resource, but we have realized that our reach is very localized. Teachers come here after a really long day and so we’re only reaching teachers about an hour or so away from Saint Paul,” Associate VP of Lifelong Learning Farzad Sadjadi said.

Thanks to this new feder...