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You may have heard “rumors” about a children’s museum coming to
our area – if so, consider yourself in the loop! The Children’s Science
Center (CSC) will open its first location, known as the Children’s
Science Center Lab, at Fair Oaks Mall this month. The lab provides
fun, interactive exhibits, activities and programs for children and
families to explore science, technology, engineering and mathematics
(STEM) hands-on. Focused on children aged 2-12, the lab offers four
experience zones: The Experiment Bar, Inspiration Hub, Tinker Shop
and Discovery Zone.

In addition, the Children’s Science Center Lab offers summer camps,
birthday parties, field trips and other group visits. Campers in their
Adventures in STEM summer camp will get excited about STEM
through fun activities, hands-on labs, engineering challenges, digital
investigations, and more. There are limited spots still available for
camp. Nene Spivy, CSC executive director, is thrilled that after five years
of being a mobile, museum without walls with only weekend and
evening programs, “We now have a museum facility that makes
hands-on learning available any day of the year.” CSC will operate
seven days a week at its Fair Oaks Mall site, in addition to continued
operation of its mobile community outreach programs.

For more information and to register for summer camp, visit childsci.org
E mpowered L earning C enters A dds
N ew B ethesda L ocation
Did you know you can literally change the brain physically and
eliminate barriers to learning – often permanently? Educational
expert Peter Riddle and developmental pediatrician Dr. Richard
Reutter have developed a combination of “outside-the-box”
educational and medical technologies that work directly on the
brain’s processing abilities. Their Empowered Learning Program
directly affects underdeveloped cognitive, visual and sensory-
motor functions – and it works for both kids and adults.

The Empowered Learning Program measures the cognitive,
visual processing and sensory-motor integration functions
of those experiencing learning and/or behavioral difficulties.

Empowered Learning develops individualized programs to
remediate deficiencies, often permanently, which enable the
student to then easily assimilate the content taught in school.

Empowered Learning Centers have helped thousands of kids for
the past 24 years. A new center is now open in the Bethesda, MD,
area, so our DMV kids have close-to-home access to this great
resource. For more information, visit www.eltcenters.com/.

34 June 2015 washingtonFAMILY.com