GC1504C Scientia (Traditional Cache) in Kentucky, United States created by Blue&Gray

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GC1504C ▼

A cache by Blue&Gray Message this owner

Hidden : 8/7/2007

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The word science comes through the Old French, and is derived from the Latin word scientia for knowledge, which in turn comes from scio. 'I know'. The Indo-European root means to discern or to separate, akin to Sanskrit chyati, he cuts off, Greek schizein, to split, Latin scindere, to split.

Today, the primary meaning of "science" is generally limited to empirical study involving use of the scientific method.

Source: Wikipedia

This cache is located near the East Kentucky Science Center in Prestonsburg, KY.

The Center is a non-profit education organization devoted to providing science learning opportunities to students, teachers, and the Eastern Kentucky community. It features a planetarium, exhibit hall, and classroom.

A BIT OF HISTORY
Over a period of nine years, the East Kentucky Science Center evolved from a coalition formed to support science education efforts in Eastern Kentucky to the construction of a permanent learning center with a planetarium, exhibit hall, and science classroom.

Low achievement in math and science by area school children captured the attention of several representatives of higher education, public schools and business leaders in 1994. A coalition was formed to support and to improve science education efforts in the region. At a meeting of the coalition, the meeting’s facilitator, John Rosenberg proposed an ambitious plan, a science center with a planetarium similar to the one in Gastonia, North Carolina, the town where he grew up. Rosenberg had already begun laying the groundwork for his proposal, soliciting the support of State Representative Greg Stumbo.

The group decided to act as a consortium with the objective of forming a non-profit corporation. Their goal was to promote the advancement of science, mathematics and technology in the region and to develop an institute. The Consortium determined the Center would provide professional development for teachers, hands-on learning for students, resources to teachers and students through a traveling science van, and information from educational institutions and coal-related industries to the community. The non-profit organization became the East Kentucky Center for Science, Mathematics and Technology. That name was later shortened to become the East Kentucky Science Center.

Outreach education operations began at the Center in 1997 after a series of board-sponsored meetings with focus groups in the region determined that 90% of students didn’t achieve well in science and mathematics and 96% of the residents didn’t understand science and mathematics. The Science Center began developing programs with hands-on activities to help overcome the barriers discovered in this survey.

In 1998, the General Assembly appropriated $2.6 million for the Center; $1.6 million of the funding was earmarked for the building and another million for the Center’s equipment. The Center’s Board of Directors, recognizing that costs were going to be almost double the original estimates, decided to plan for a much smaller, 12,000 sq. ft. facility. The plan included an 85-seat, 40-ft. planetarium, 3,000 sq. ft. exhibit area, 1,000 sq. ft. science classroom, gift shop and offices. In 2000, the Center received an additional $1 million from the state to be used toward the construction of the new center. This funding helped cover additional site preparation costs. Groundbreaking ceremonies were held on the Prestonsburg Community College Campus, November 9, 2001, for the new Science Center facility. Construction of the new Science Center began in September 2002. The East Kentucky Science Center opened its doors of its new facility to the public in March of 2004.

Source: official web site