Sponsored by the Hine Memorial Fund of The Youngstown Foundation, Mahoning Valley Hospital Foundation, Eastern Ohio Area Health Education Center, Sweeney Chevrolet and J. Ford Crandall Foundation.

Celebrating the drive of individuals to engage in their world – building on their life experiences and circumstances, exploring adaptive equipment and technologies that can be used to help each of us passionately engage in life! The Drive to Excel area features Silly Faces an interactive video installation by artist Amanda Long.

Sponsored by the Cafaro Family Foundation

Featured in the Avionics area is the Airplane Shooter, requiring visitors to fashion their own paper airplanes and launch them at a variety of targets. Thanks to the Lallo Family, “Big John’s Flight Trainer” was recently installed on our experimental bi-plane.

Sponsored by First National Bank

In Brain Power, test your knowledge of budgets, wants versus needs and saving with the Brain Quiz. Remember to complete your withdrawal from the ATM, and enter our FNB-sponsored monthly drawing for $25.

Sponsored by The Solomon & Post Families, Edward W. Powers Charitable Fund, The Hine Memorial Fund of The Youngstown Foundation, Junior League of Youngstown, The Gubany Family in memory of Helen Gubany, Fred & Mary Lou Alexander, Bruce & Carol Sherman and Kanics Inclusive Design Services, LLC. Additional sponsorships are available.

Young children are constantly exploring. All their senses are used to observe and draw conclusions about objects and events through simple scientific investigations. Kids in the Kitchen was designed by Faniro Architects and built by Crowe Cabinets, providing an opportunity for our youngest visitors to experience the Farm to Table cycle.

Sponsored by WFMJ TV 21

Think you would make a good meteorologist? Report the weather forecast using the OH WOW!® Green Screen or experience it first hand in the Hurricane Chamber.

Sponsored by The Howard Solomon Family

Creativity, problem identification and problem solving with members of your team are your tasks in the Engineering WOW! ZONE. Construct the Catenary Arch. Test your skills at the Magnet Wall or Lego Table. Build a Gear Train by interlocking different sizes of gears together.Explore what you can move with air. A-mazing Airwaves was recently re-designed thanks to the Miller & Sokolov Families in honor of Ezra.

Sponsored by Veeraiah Choudary & S. Lakshmi Perni

Our Stream Table allows guests to create channels and dams that release and stop the flow of water. Force water uphill, using the Archimedes Screw or build systems that divert and capture water at the Erosion Table. Not wet enough?

Sponsored by The Home Savings & Loan Charitable Foundation

Create your own compositions on the Rhythm Machine and the Pipe Organ. Dance through the beams of the Laser Guitar and shout to the world in the Echo Tube.

Sponsorship Available

Control the illusion of filmed power at the Video Browser!

Sponsored by The Youngstown Foundation, Frank & Pearl Gelbman Charitable Foundation, The Schwebel Family Foundation, Renee & Steve Giangiordano, Thomases Family Endowment of the Youngstown Jewish Federation, Chris & Kristin Jaskiewicz, and The William M. Neckerman, Jr. Charitable Foundation

This 3700’ Maker Space provides a NEW! interactive experience each time you visit, featuring Deming’s Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) continuous improvement process. Come and tinker, using real materials and tools.