Nonprofit science center opens in LA
OCT 18, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024751
Los Angeles Times : Iridescent, a nonprofit science and discovery center, opened Saturday near downtown Los Angeles. Another studio is set to open in New York next month, and others already operate in the San Francisco area. President and founder Tara Chklovski, who has studied physics and aerospace engineering, started the Iridescent program two and a half years ago to inspire girls and inner-city children to pursue careers in engineering and the sciences. Among the program’s backers is the US Navy, which has given a $2.3 million grant “in hopes of ‘developing future engineers and scientists’ who will be the technological brains behind the military’s brawn in years to come,” according to Los Angeles Times writer Scott Glover.
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