The Science Center

PAIR Design Signs on as Powerhouse Science Center Founding Partner

PAIR Design Signs on as Powerhouse Science Center Founding Partner

Gold River firm will lend creative design expertise to project SACRAMENTO, CA. – The Powerhouse Science Center in Sacramento today announced that PAIR Design has joined the campaign to build the premier science learning center serving Northern California. As a founding partner, PAIR Design joins other regional leaders and organizations in a cooperative effort to ...

Keller Group Office Environments Signs on as Powerhouse Science Center Founding Partner

Keller Group Office Environments Signs on as Powerhouse Science Center Founding Partner

SACRAMENTO, CA. – The Powerhouse Science Center in Sacramento today announced that Keller Group Office Environments has joined the campaign to build the premier science learning center serving Northern California. As a founding partner, Keller Group Office Environments joins other regional leaders and organizations in a cooperative effort to support the development of this vital ...

Aerojet Challenger Learning Center to debut at Powerhouse Science Center

Aerojet Challenger Learning Center to debut at Powerhouse Science Center

 Aerojet Challenger Learning Center to debut at Powerhouse Science Center   SACRAMENTO, Calif., Dec. 8, 2011 The Powerhouse Science Center and Aerojet today announced a $1.5 million gift from Aerojet that will launch the new science complex’s cutting-edge simulated NASA space mission program, to be named the Aerojet Challenger Learning Center.   The current, heavily-used ...

Proposition 84′s $7 Million Grant to Pave Way for Powerhouse Science Center

Proposition 84′s $7 Million Grant to Pave Way for Powerhouse Science Center

from the Sacramento Business Journal: A big reminder of what’s to come at the home of the future Powerhouse Science Center was spread out Thursday. A 30-foot banner was draped over the old PG&E Jiboom Street power station as dignitaries watched. The center, which is in a pre-construction phase, will break ground in the fall. ...

Powerhouse Science Center Receives $7 Million Grant From Proposition 84

Powerhouse Science Center Receives $7 Million Grant From Proposition 84

Nature Education Facilities Committee Cites Benefits of Educating Sacramento’s Next Generation of Children in Both Earth Sciences and Environmental Stewardship   SACRAMENTO, CA. – The Powerhouse Science Center took a major step forward in funding with the announcement today that the project has been awarded a $7 million grant provided by Proposition 84. Proposition 84’s Nature Education ...

Earth and Space Sciences Center

Earth and Space Sciences Center

A part of the Powerhouse Science Center campus, the Earth & Space Sciences Center will provide visitors with focused learning about the natural environment through Earth Systems Science, which studies the Earth’s four spheres and their interactions. Through this framework, visitors will achieve a multi-layered and interdisciplinary understanding of the significance, value, challenges, solutions, and ...

State of the Art…

State of the Art…

The Powerhouse Science Center will be located in the Riverfront District of Sacramento, a developing district near downtown Sacramento. The Center has begun work with First 5 Sacramento to develop a young child program and plans to develop additional after-school and summer programming for youth from the Sacramento area, with a special interest in serving ...

The Project, The Vision, The Timetable…

The Project, The Vision, The Timetable…

For nearly 50 years, the PG&E Power Plant at Jibboom Street has stood empty, an elegant, decaying hulk on the banks of the Sacramento River. Prominently visible from Interstate 5 just north of Downtown, this historic site will be transformed into a world class, Smithsonian-affiliated science center. The new riverfront complex includes four floors of ...