Carl Sagan Discovery Center
at The Children's Hospital
at Montefiore

 

The Montefiore Medical Center, as part of its plan to construct a state-of-the-art children's hospital facility in the Bronx, New York, is creating The Carl Sagan Discovery Center. The Sagan Center will be the Nation's first science learning project developed in conjunction with a major children's health care initiative and housed within the walls of a children's hospital. An extraordinary program of science learning and discovery is being developed that will be integrated into the very fabric of the children's hospital. Educational software and Web sites will be important elements along with computers and custom-designed communications tools available for the children and their families to connect with the larger world of learning. The rooftop will feature a summer garden, planetarium, and observatory. NASA supports this project and has offered access to our image library of photographs to adorn the walls. Perhaps we can provide two-dimensional projections that allow the bed-ridden patients of the hospital to take virtual flights over Mars from their hospital beds. We are also discussing a partnership that might include virtual surgery and telemedicine applications and programming.

Stay tuned for more details about this exciting venture.

If you would like more information visit us at http://www.montefiore.org/about/development/childrens/index.html