From Deseret News archives:
Tech group will help Leonardo
Meeting last week, council members said they would do what they can to help the development and fund-raising efforts for The Leonardo at Library Square, a planned arts, culture and science center at the former main library in Salt Lake City.
Project officials discussed the development's potential and needs with the council, saying they want to open the center in late 2005 or early 2006.
The project would have three partners operating at the former library: Global Artways, the city's arts education program; the Center for Documentary Arts; and the Utah Science Center.
Several council members said the science center which will have hands-on, interactive activities for people from fourth grade on up could be helpful in getting youngsters interested in tech careers.
"If you think about why we choose the career we're in, I'd say that 75 percent could say it was one person or one experience," council member Suzanne Winters said. "This science center would turn on the general population to the opportunities in science and engineering technology."
Those were the kind of comments Joe Andrade likes to hear. He's in charge of the Utah Science Center component.
"Four hundred thousand people per year going through a place like this can't help but be affected and informed with respect to their awareness" of science and technology, he said.
Mary Tull, development director for The Leonardo at Library Square, said experiences that will be offered there will be "exploratory, experiential, high-quality," and emphasized that its officials expect to work closely with schools and teachers on the development.
"It's important to point out that our audience for the Leonardo is adults and kids that will respond to being treated as adults. It's not a kids' museum," Andrade said. "The whole idea is to celebrate and empower creativity, invention, innovation not just in the hard science and technologies, but also looking at the arts and culture and so forth."
Andrade suggested that council members could be involved individually, encourage employees to volunteer their time or effort, work on attaining corporate sponsorships or in-kind donations, or provide leadership and connections that could benefit The Leonardo's development.
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