-New traveling exhibit engages kids with interactive & educational entertainment-
Flint, MI – The Sloan Museum of Discovery in Flint will open “2theXtreme-A Radical Interactive Exhibit” on February 1, 2025. The highly engaging exhibit will feature approximately 32 different stations where guests will participate in snowboarding games, music, video, fashion, photography, cyber security design, dance and many other activities. The interactive exhibits are organized into six themed main stations:
• Outdoor Action … Adventure Sports
• Build Your World … Environment
• Future Style … Style and Design
• Kickin’ It … Entertainment
• Game Plan
• Robotics and Space
“Today’s young people are the innovators of tomorrow,” said Todd Slisher, executive director of Sloan Museum of Discovery. “With fun, hands-on exhibits such as 2theXtreme, Sloan Museum aims to inspire the next generation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians,” stated Slisher, who was also instrumental in bringing the traveling exhibit to Flint.
2theXtreme is ideal for kids in middle school, but recommended for kids ages 8+.
2theXtreme is produced by Evergreen Exhibitions in collaboration with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, National Society of Professional Engineers, MATHCOUNTS and the Society of Women Engineers.
The 5000 square foot exhibit will open February 1 and will run through May 11 inside the FUN Gallery exhibition hall. An entry ticket for the 2theXtreme exhibit is $5 per person in addition to general admission fees and will include access to all four of Sloan Museum of Discovery’s primary hands-on gallery spaces.
General admission is free for all Genesee County residents, active military and their immediate family members, military veterans, teachers and members of Sloan Museum and Longway Planetarium.
Tickets are now on sale at SloanLongway.org/Xtreme.
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About Sloan Museum of Discovery
Sloan Museum of Discovery and Longway Planetarium are overseen by the non-profit Flint Institute of Science and History (F.I.S.H.) with a mission to engage communities on a learning journey in history and science. Located within the Flint Cultural Center Campus in Flint, Michigan, Sloan Museum of Discovery opened July 16, 2022, with four primary hands-on learning galleries and one exhibition hall for special traveling exhibits.
The original Sloan Museum opened in 1966 as the Sloan Panorama of Transportation, named after long-time General Motors president, chairman and CEO Alfred P. Sloan.
The new Sloan Museum of Discovery is nearly twice the size at 107,000 square feet and completely re-built into a re-imagined world-class, hands-on science and history museum. It is supported in part by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and Michigan Arts and Culture Council (MACC). Sloan Museum of Discovery programs are funded in part by the Genesee County Arts Education and Cultural Enrichment Millage.
Learn more at www.SloanLongway.org.
