CHANGING LIVES AND INSPIRING LEARNING THROUGH SCIENCE AND WONDER.
Imagine. Design. Play. is open now at the Catawba Science Center. This exhibit features different stations with materials used to build, create, or invent and fosters critical thinking through open-ended play! Put your engineering skills to the test using large-scale building materials to create anything you can imagine. Pool Noodles provided by HSM, Ducktape Imagination Station provided by Shurtape, plus new free play materials for all ages. Plan your visit to IDP and dive deeper into STEM with our monthly programs that help visitors imagine, design, and play in all areas of science. Don’t miss our SPARK programs on the 2nd & 3rd Saturday of the month.
Open Now through May 4, 2025!
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Saturday, March 26th from 10 AM – 12 PM, in the Naturalist Center
Unleash your imagination with the knowledge you know about critters and creatures to build your very own cryptid, at this month's Naturalist Program!
Don't forget to tag us in photos of your artwork! 
Visit the Foothills Collaboratory to participate in these fun activities on-site, and maybe we will display your artwork on the wall!
Questions? Contact the Exhibit Office at exhibits@catawbascience.org or 828.322.8169 x. 338
Took the kiddos and they loved it. Employees were nice and helpful. If your looking for something to do with the kids give this place a shot.
What a wonderful place to visit! Great environment to learn and the staff is very helpful! Hickory is lucky to have great family education and entertainment.
Fabulous and I don’t often give praise. We took our grandson and were there for hours. He loved it and so did we.
We love the Science Center! I take my 2 and 4 year old boys weekly to play and enjoy the exhibits. The staff are wonderful and the classes offered are excellent! We are so blessed to have such an amazing resource in our area.
This place was great. We have kids from 8 to 1 and they all had a great time. What I really liked is most of the exhibits are hands on and that really kept them occupied.
