Celebrating Creativity: New Exhibit Launch

This jam-packed day will begin with a ribbon-cutting ceremony hosted by Senator Dave Cortese, followed by themed pop-up activities being hosted throughout the Interactive. Please join us for this special celebration filled with innovation and discovery!

Save the Date

Saturday, Oct. 18
12:30 a.m. | Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony
11 a.m. to 4 p.m. | Pop-Up Activities

For the early birds, a read-aloud with a kid-friendly themed activity will start at 11 a.m. in the Curiosity Corner on the Lower Level.

Innovation in Bloom

This 2-story-tall exhibit is a vibrant metaphor for our Innovation Design Process: dynamic, inspiring, and full of possibility. Visitors launch balls through air-powered tubes into the clouds, watch them tumble through a landscape inspired by California’s local flora and fauna, and then become designers themselves by building pathways that unleash a spectacular “brainstorm” of over 200 cascading balls. It's a joyful celebration of creativity, collaboration, and ideas in motion.

 

Climate Quest

Climate Quest is an arcade-style game where you are the hero! Pick challenges about food, water, fashion, or animals and make choices that help the planet. Every good decision boosts your score and shows how little actions can add up to big changes when we all work together. Play through different levels, earn badges, and see how you can be a climate champion in your home, school, and community.

Featured Activities

  • Dia de los Muertos: Light Up Paper Flowers

    Celebrate Dia de los Muertos with light-up paper flowers! Learn about circuits to create beautiful light-up paper cempasúchitl (marigolds) and other flowers from around the world, including California poppies, lotuses, cherry blossoms, and more!

  • Trash Grabbers

    Level up your planet-saving skills! Use mechanical motion and DIY skills to design and test a trash grabber. Consider how trash might interact with different environments and iterate on your design to help become the changemakers of tomorrow.

  • Putt Putt Paradise

    Inspired by mini golf and arcade games, this new hands-on activity turns a game of chance into an engineering challenge! Design, build, and test a device to propel a golf ball through obstacle courses inspired by real mini golf games.