New York Hall of Science

The New York Hall of Science, the city’s hands-on science and technology center, promotes excitement about and understanding of science and technology and offer creative, participatory ways to learn, serving more than half a million visitors annually. The $3 million Investing in Innovation (i3) grant from the U.S. Department of Education and this matching grant will support the development, implementation, and evaluation of SciGames, a high-quality digital learning environment that will bridge informal and formal science learning environments to improve middle-school students’ science achievement and better prepare them for college and careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.

To launch initial projects of the New York City Learning Network, one of two demonstration sites for a new approach to supporting learning in the 21st Century.