Science must go well beyond our museums and classrooms, to give kids enough opportunities to build critical thinking skills in the U.S.

We often think of science in terms of museums, a lab table with a boring experiment, a chemical reaction, or an equation we had to memorize. While these things fit the definition, at Kids Science Labs the way we think about hands-on science is “A perspective to approach the world”. We are all scientists because we are all interested in learning.  From designing a house, to running faster, getting rid of that nasty cold, figuring out why the light bulb keeps blowing out, or trying to win a court case - we are all searching to know more. This is especially true in young kids and exactly what makes hands-on science a key feature of every kids' life. Why does the juice spill, why is the car so noisy, why can't I jump off the couch...they want to know and their natural curiosity is best met with doing real hands-on science.

The fact is that we love seeing innovative solutions to basic problems. We are often struck by creativity when someone makes an observation or develops a product that it striking in its simplicity, beautiful in its ability to solve a key problem, and makes us go “why didn’t someone think of that before, it was so obvious?”.