By Andrea Zeek
The University of Iowa has partnered with the Iowa Children’s Museum to produce a new hands-on exhibit that will use an interactive skate park concept to teach physics principles.
The 3,000-square-foot exhibit, scheduled to open in 2018, will invite children to design their own skateboarding courses and platforms using both virtual and physical building blocks. Funded by a three-year, $1,275,430 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), it will become a permanent fixture at the museum, located in the Coral Ridge Mall in Coralville, replacing another physics-based exhibit called “Notion of Motion.”