Relaunching LabVenture

Announcements | Dec 31, 2018

Three years ago, a team of GMRI staff, project partners, vendors, and advisors began building an unparalleled learning experience for Maine’s middle school students, thanks to breakthrough funding from NASA.

Students gather around one of the interactive learning kiosks in our new LabVenture space, while one delighted student in a superman shirt holds a live lobster. Teachers and GMRI leaders smile in the background.
In this video, Chief Education Officer Leigh Peake gives a behind the scenes look at the LabVenture experience.

When we reimagined the LabVenture experience, we recognized we needed a renovation of the physical and technical infrastructure of equal scope and ambition.

Leigh Peake Chief Education Officer
Leigh Peake Chief Education Officer

“Our world is changing rapidly. Never before has there been instant access to so much information, and never before has it been so important to have the skills to critically evaluate what we read and hear.”

Don Perkins Former CEO & Founder
Don Perkins Former CEO & Founder

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