Discovery Science Place Celebrates 30th Anniversary with Founder’s Day Event May 13
May 8, 2023
Discovery Science Place Celebrates 30th Anniversary with Founder’s Day Event May 13
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The Discovery Science Place will recognize its 30th anniversary this year with an all day Founder’s Day Celebration on Saturday, May 13. The event includes both free, family-friendly day activities as well as evening, adults-only events for cost at the museum, located at 308 North Broadway in Tyler.
“We are so excited to celebrate 30 years of igniting curiosity in the young minds of East Texas and surrounding areas,” said Carol Whiteside, DSP executive director. “We hope you can come celebrate with us on May 13.”
Family-friendly activities will be 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. and include inflatables, dunking and photo booths, food trucks and face painting. Adults-only events will be 7 – 10 p.m. and include a silent auction and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles exhibit admittance. Cost is $75 per single adult and $100 per couple.
For tickets, visit https://30years.givesmart.com, or text “30years” to 76278.
For more information, contact Whiteside at 903.405.3714 or cwhiteside@uttyler.edu, or Tami Urias, DSP development director, 903.705.6813 or TamiUrias@discoveryscienceplace.org.
Event sponsors include Christus Trinity Mother Frances; Brookshire Grocery Co.; Cavender’s; Austin Bank; Raising Cane’s; Mary’s Alterations; Diane and Jonathan Kavanaugh; and VeraBank.
The Discovery Science Place, a UT Tyler center, features more than 20,000 square feet of hands-on exhibit space, a 12,000-plus square-foot annex to house traveling exhibits and diverse educational programming designed to ignite curiosity in young minds through hands-on exploration. Founded in 1993, the DSP is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. General admission tickets are $8 for children and $10 for adults. More than 60,000 guests visit each year.
For more information, visit www.discoveryscienceplace.org.
With a mission to improve educational and health care outcomes for East Texas and beyond, UT Tyler offers more than 80 undergraduate and graduate programs to 10,000 students. UT Tyler recently merged with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler (now known as UT Tyler Health Science Center). Through its alignment with UT Tyler Health Science Center (HSC) and UT Health East Texas, UT Tyler has unified these entities to serve Texas with quality education, cutting-edge research and excellent patient care. Classified by Carnegie as a doctoral research institution and by U.S. News & World Report as a national university, UT Tyler has campuses in Tyler, Longview, Palestine and Houston.