Welcome to The Leonardo-Science--formerly the Utah Science Center

The Utah Science Center (USC) is now known as The Leonardo—Science, the science focus of The Leonardo (www.theleonardo.org). Opening in 2010 in the newly remodeled old Salt Lake City Main Public Library Building on Library Square, The Leonardo will take interactivity and personal involvement to an entirely new level. Targeted to all who will respond to being treated as adults, The Leonardo will involve and empower its visitors to be participants – helping to enhance its exhibits and improve its programs. You are more than a visitor – you are more than a participant; you will help create, enhance, and design the experience.

Hundreds of volunteers have worked for many years to design exhibits, activities, and programs.

Our three ongoing science-intensive programs help provide the experience and the foundation for truly unique and substantive science related programs.

The Leonardo's programs will enable an effective and comprehensive art, culture, and science experience for all participants.

Welcome to The Leonardo—Science’s current programs—and to its plans for opening in 2010.

The Leonardo-Science emphasizes creative and active exploration of the worlds of science and technology.

Targeted at adults, and young people who want to be treated like adults, The Leonardo-Science will create a culture and environment for exploring the factors and phenomena that affects our lives and shape our future.

Visitors will question, learn and invent through personal, hands-on experimentation and exploration. The goal is to facilitate personal Eureka! moments – personal scientific revelations.

Interactive, responsive, hands-on exhibits and activities are the core - the heart - of The Leonardo's science program. This first 'third generation' science center will take visitor interactivity to entirely new levels.

Although most modern science centers (see www.astc.org) are highly interactive and experiential, allowing the visitors to control and in some cases modify or design the exhibit and its activities, very few activities in modern science centers use the visitor as the actual experiment.

YOU are (often) the subject, the object, the specimen—You ARE the experiment—at The Leonardo-Science.

The exhibits and activities will be experienced at several levels. A beginner or first timer will become motivated to learn and experience more - to come back and delve deeper. This hierarchical design encourages and allows all levels of interest and background to effectively experience, understand and question.

The objectives will be met via exhibits and activities in three general integrated and connected areas:

• YOU! - A Unique Individual
• ENERGY
• Your Planetary HOME

The Leonardo experience highly relevant to teachers and students with particular curricular, discipline or subject based needs and interests.

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Boards and Administration
The Utah Science Center (www.utahsciencecenter.org) was being planned, managed, and operated by the Utah Science Center Corporation, a 501c3 not for profit corporation: EIN 87-0685104. The Utah Science Center Corporation Board consists of five individuals (below).

The Utah Science Center Authority (USCA) is a 13 member state sanctioned Advisory Board, appointed by the Governor of Utah, charged with aiding the development of a Utah Science Center. As a result of the merger of the Utah Science Center with The Leonardo, the USC Board will be disbanded when the merger is fully enacted. The USCA will continue to function as an advisory board to The Leonardo.

Utah Science Center Corporation Board

Joe Andrade
Chair and Director
home: (801) 484-4904
cell: (801) 706-6747
U of Utah office: (801)581-4379
email

Michael Keene
Vice-Chair, Secretary, and Director

Suzanne Winters
Treasurer and Director

Jeffrey Unruh
Director

Will West
Director

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Utah Science Center Authority (USCA)

Joe Andrade
Board Chair

Daryl Barrett

Tracie Cayford

Bill Colbert

Tamara Goetz

Joseph Hatch

Seth Jarvis

James McRea

Charles Precourt

Patricia Vaughn

Suzanne Winters

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The Leonardo will plan, organize, host, and conduct a wide range of special workshops, courses, demonstrations, and competitions. Working closely with teachers and parents, most of these activities will aid and reinforce Utah's core science and mathematics curricula. The specific courses and programs are now being planned with local school districts and with the State Board of Education. Examples offered by other science centers nationally can be accessed via www.astc.org—then search for a science center in your favorite big city--and go from there.

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