Mississippi Science Fest returns to the capital city Sept. 15-17 – SuperTalk Mississippi

Academic, fun-filled occasions are coming to the capital metropolis because the Mississippi Science Fest (MSF) is about to return to Jackson’s LeFleur Museum District from Friday, September 15 by Sunday, September 17.

The LeFleur Museum District will supply exhibitors, particular occasions, and applications at these 4 websites: the Mississippi Youngsters’s Museum, the Mississippi Museum of Pure Science, the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Museum, and the Mississippi Sports activities Corridor of Fame and Museum.

In accordance with the Mississippi Youngsters’s Museum Director of Training Monique Ealey, MSF goals to advertise areas of science, expertise, engineering, and arithmetic (STEM) to younger individuals by hands-on expertise from consultants of their respective fields of examine.

“The entire objective of the Mississippi Science Competition is to advertise STEM schooling and so we invite exhibitors who’re within the STEM trade,” Ealey mentioned in an interview with SuperTalk’s Rebecca Turner. “They supply hands-on experiences for youngsters and households after they come and they’re additionally in a position to be launched into the workforce. So, there’s some workforce improvement there.”

Main League Baseball govt, architect, and concrete planner, Janet Marie Smith, is that this yr’s particular visitor speaker. Smith, a Jackson native, has constructed and managed renovations of a number of main and minor league baseball parks within the U.S. She was additionally inducted into the Mississippi Sports activities Corridor of Fame in 2021.

Together with the LeFleur Museum District’s MSF, the Mississippi Youngsters’s Museum in Meridian will likely be providing “Science Saturday” on Saturday, September 17. Extra info on this yr’s MSF might be discovered right here.