Bowers Institute at The Tech has a variety of workshops delivered by our professional development specialists and trusted community partners. Following your workshop, we provide resources and offer additional support via collaborative webinars with your fellow workshop participants. Dive into design thinking and engineering or tackle technology integration, all presented as tools for project based learning across grade levels. See everything Bowers Institute has to offer educators!  

Make Learning Irresistible

Science centers are a prime location for exploratory and imaginative learning. Check out what EdSurge has to say about What Schools can learn from a science museum that makes learning irresistible for kids. 


Design, Make, Code Workshops

Technology integration is one of the most sought after and demanding aspects of teaching in a 21st century classroom. Couple that with students who have been using smartphones since they could tap a screen. If you feel underprepared or intimated using technology to teach your students design or project based learning, you should know that doesn’t have to be the case. Scaffold your technology integration throughout the year with Raspberry Pi 101, Programming Arduino, and Raspberry Pi, Sensors and Design Thinking.

The Tech’s Bowers Institute and our partners have a full fall schedule that will have you and your class saying “Tech Yeah!”

Field Trips 2017-18  

Science Labs, Innovation Labs, and IMAX oh my! We are now accepting field trip requests for the 2017-18 school year. A field trip to The Tech is guaranteed to inspire your class of  young innovators to build a robot, stop a cyber criminal, genetically engineer a creature, design a virtual world, and much more.

To book your one-of-a-kind field trip, call Group Reservations at 1-408-294-8324, option 3.

Field trips are available Monday to Friday from September 18, 2017 to June 8, 2018.

Don’t forget to ask about special pricing on Science Labs—interactive 90-minute learning experiences for your full group—for September and October!  


Need more information on any of the workshops above? Visit our webpage for full descriptions of our Bowers Institute PD workshops or email bowersinstitute@thetech.org  


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