Mid-Michigan’s innovative cultural activity center, the Impression 5 Science Center, recently got a $150,000 federal grant its been working toward for years.
Impression 5 Executive Director Erik Larson says the money will be used to build a new life sciences exhibit in the Center’s existing building.
The exact exhibit details are still being worked out, but Larson wants the exhibit to get kids excited about a career in biotech, nanotech and other science-based 
industries.
“This is a way for a cultural center like Impression 5 to get kids and adults thinking about these careers,” he says.
School groups make up a large portion of Impression 5’s visitors. In the past couple of years, districts have been trimming their budgets, so Impression 5’s made a real effort to make sure the exhibits meld with the academic curriculum.
“Impression 5 wants to play an active role in youth career development,” Larson says.
Impression 5 will start working on the design this fall and hopes to have the new exhibit, which will take up 3,000 square feet, up and running within the next few years.
Source: Erik Larson, Impression 5
Ivy Hughes, development news editor, can be reached here.
All Photographs © Dave Trumpie
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