Vote for the Saint Louis Science Center!

The Saint Louis Science Center has been recognized as one of the top science centers and free museums in the United States of America! We’re honored that Newsweek magazine has nominated our institution for their Readers’ Choice Award in the Best Free Museum category. We hope that you will vote for us!   Voting has… Continue reading

The YES Program’s Agriscience Component Highlights the Intersection of Health and Agriculture

Support science for our future. Make a gift to the Science Center’s YES Program to help support the Science Center’s education programs. Header image photo credit: Harmony Cooper, YES Teen It was a sunny Saturday on September 24—perfect weather for a collaborative project and a special moment in the Youth Exploring Science (YES) Program’s Agriscience… Continue reading

Greenhouse Update: Light for Life

When we talk with our younger guests about hydroponics, we like to start off with a seemingly simple question: what does a plant need to grow? It seems like such an easy question to answer, but the more you start thinking about the answers, the more complex the question becomes. Somebody once asked the question… Continue reading

Greenhouse updates–To Peat or not to Peat

Hello again everyone! For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Chris, and I’m a new part-time facilitator at GROW this summer. Some of you might remember me from last year’s greenhouse blog posts, where I talked about everything from aphids, to fish, to commercial lettuce. Being a YES Teen with the… Continue reading

It’s GROW Time!

We check back in on our plants 11 days after the light cycle was reduced to 12 hours from 18.

Getting started with indoor growing

Lila Waier, owner of Grow Gear in Saint Louis, talks about what equipment you need to get started with an indoor grow. Lila has generously donated equipment and materials to help keep our GROW Lab growing strong.