PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Providence Children’s Museum has gotten a $50,000 grant from the state’s utility to support an exhibit exploring spatial thinking.
The grant from National Grid supports the ThinkSpace exhibit. It will also go to provide free admission to the museum to 500 low-income families.
Museum officials say spatial thinking is a key to children’s interest and success in the disciplines of science, technology, engineering and math.
Visitors to ThinkSpace can do hands-on experimentation with various shapes and spaces, including rolling a ball through a maze and trying to figure out its path. They can also create chain reactions with dominoes and make three-dimensional objects appear two-dimensional in a “shadow booth.”
