Community Engagement
Sci-Port in your Community
Follow where we’ve been! To have Sci-Port at your next event please contact us at education@sciport.org
Easter Egg Hunt at American Rose Center
Sci-Port Discovery Center was a proud event partner at the American Rose Center Easter Egg Hunt and Lady Bug Release on April 9th, 2022.
Rocket Fun at LSUS IDEAS Day
We had a BLAST at IDEAS Day at LSU Shreveport with Science Matters Shreveport launching foam and pop rockets and performing demonstrations to expose elementary and middle school children to the excitement and wonder of science! Take-home STEM kits for each activity...
American Heart Association Heart Walk
Sci-Port Discovery Center was proud to support and be a Community Partner for the 2022 Northwest Louisiana Heart Walk and Run on May 7th, 2022 at Festival Plaza in downtown Shreveport. Sci-Port provided activities and information.
Letter from Executive Director
Friends of Sci-Port Discovery Center As we celebrate the coming of a new year, it is important for us to celebrate the successes of 2021 and reflect on lessons learned. We have been blessed by our members, our visitors, our donors, our staff, our Board leadership, and...
Morphing of the Butterfly!
Sci-Port guests got to experience some of our monarch butterflies' first flight! We went through the educational process of how a caterpillar turns into a beautiful butterfly. First, the caterpillar sheds its skin as it grows like snakes. It will shed about 5 times...
All of Us
A message from Pyxis Partners about the All of Us Research Program. All of Us is a national effort that aims to build the largest most diverse database of health information of its kind that researchers can use to study health and illness. We want to support...
Grant Funded Outreach
Pop Rockets Fly! This past Friday October 15th Sci-Port educators went to McKinney Byrd Academy to engage students in our grant funded outreach program. During this lesson we taught middle schoolers about independent and dependent variables using the scientific...
National Night Out
This past Tuesday October 5th, Sci-Port participated in the National Night out! National Night Out is a nationwide program created for local communities to heighten crime and drug prevention awareness. It is one night annually where we come together to support...
Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!
The votes have been tallied and the winners are in! Our Dining by Design contest winners were “The Enchanted Garden” contributing to the Friends of the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum, “No Rainbow Without Rain” contributing to the Renzi Art and Education Center, and...
Bakowski Bridge of Lights
We are so excited to announce our partnership with the Shreveport regional arts council in our newest project “Bakowski Bridge of Lights”. Sci-Port will be used as the training venue for this, we proudly own the best view of the bridge in town. This project will train...
