New exhibit on toys opening at OH WOW!

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Visitors to OH WOW! the Roger & Gloria Jones Children’s Center for Science & Technology, 11 W. Federal St., can explore a new exhibit beginning Tuesday called “Toys: The Inside Story.”

“Toys” includes 12 hands-on stations illustrating the simple mechanisms commonly found in toys and lets visitors create their own toy-like combinations of gears, pulleys, linkages, cams and circuits.

With the help of the SenSource Corporate Volunteer Program, the toys display will be installed in OH WOW!’s Rotating Exhibit Gallery on Monday.

SenSource is an Ohio-based, privately held technology company providing foot- and vehicle-traffic monitoring analytics since 2002. Each quarter, SenSource selects a nonprofit project, and a group of SenSource employees spend the day volunteering.

“Toys: The Inside Story” is the second new exhibit at OH WOW! this fall,” said Suzanne Barbati, executive director. “We ... thank SenSource Corporate Volunteer Program for helping assemble the new addition to our STEM collection.”

STEM is the acronym for science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

The toys exhibition was developed by the Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich, Vt., with funding from a National Science Foundation grant awarded to seven museums across the country that comprise TEAMS (Traveling Exhibits at Museums of Science).

For information, call 330-744-5914, or visit www.ohwowkids.org.