“We’ve been dedicated to education, serving our community and broadening the horizon in the STEM field.” “We’re just super excited to be involved in this,” said Pathfinder board member Katie Horal. Pete-based nonprofit, is the lead agency on the project. Rouson said, specifically mentioning outreach to communities like Childs Park and Campbell Park in South St. “We need to make sure that minority children have access to this place,” Sen. Rouson spoke about how his Stanford Ph.D.-educated brother Damian Rouson has said that he discovered a passion for computers when he learned computer programming language at the Science Center in 1979. This feeds into STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).” “I was very vocal about how important this was,” Cheney said about her lobbying efforts with her House colleagues. Linda Chaney to sponsor a $500,000 funding request during this year’s legislative session that was approved by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Rouson then teamed up with Pinellas-based Republican state Rep. City officials had initially announced that they had intended to raze it and use the land for affordable housing, and perhaps use some of the land for expanding a nearby wastewater treatment plant. Blackmon has said he began thinking of reviving it after the city purchased the building that housed the Science Center from CareerSource Pinellas in 2019. Darryl Rouson – both of whom say they used to regularly visit the Science Center – began making the public campaign in 2020 to help restore the center. “We also have private donations in the six-figure range, so we’re looking good right now funding wise.”īlackmon and Democratic state Sen.
Petersburg City Councilman Robert Blackmon. “We right now just got word from Congressman (Charlie) Crist’s office that we’re in the draft appropriations of $3 million in the bill,” said St.
House Appropriations Committee has approved $3 million for the Science Center
That could be the case after a group of Pinellas-based lawmakers convened at the facility on Friday to discuss the funding that has been approved to restore and rehabilitate the once vital education center. Petersburg be filled with young people learning about science once again? Will the moribund Science Center of Pinellas in St.
0 kommentar(er)
