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The mission of CMOST is to instill a sense of wonder and discovery in young minds, inspiring a lifel Don't forget to tag us in your CMOST pics!
The Children's Museum of Science and Technology (CMOST) is the only science center in the Tech Valley designed specifically for kids and parents to Explore, Discover, and Imagine the world of science together.
Operating as usual
05/27/2022
The first and second exhibits installed at CMAS!
05/04/2022
Children, Kindess, and Ice Cream!
05/02/2022
Focus Lab opening was a success! Come visit Saturdays from 9-2. 21 3rd Street Troy, NY. The first of a series of pop-up exhibitions in partnership with The Future of Small Cities Institute, RPI and other Troy public and non-profit entities.
04/26/2022
Fun, educational and free! Opening this Saturday.
Save the Date!
The Focus Lab is opening this Saturday, April 30th from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm in downtown Troy!
Read more here:https://cmssny.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Focus-Lab-Description.pdf
04/19/2022
The Children’s Museum at Saratoga is seeking a highly motivated candidate to serve as an Educator and Visitor Services Assistant.
This is a fulltime position with starting pay at $15-$17/hour depending on experience. The position is scheduled to work Monday through Friday with weekend hours starting June 1st, 2022.
You will find full job description on the Museum's website: https://cmssny.org/about-us/employment-opportunities/
This position is contingent on the satisfactory completion of a background check and references. To apply please send a cover letter and resume to the Director of Education at [email protected].
04/14/2022
Teachers!
If you are looking to book an end of year program for your students check out our website at https://cmssny.org/education/outreach/
Time slots are filling up fast and you don't want to miss your chance!
04/04/2022
If you happen to be in Saratoga-
Science Explorers is back in-person outside the Lincoln Baths!!! 🌞
While the Museum isn't open yet, you can join the fun at 10:30am this Thursday for the first in-person Science Explorers since the doors closed at Caroline Street! See the hustle and bustle of the workers and explore the Museum's new outdoor amenities.
Contact [email protected] for more information.
This program is sponsored by National Grid.
The Museum is moving to the Lincoln Baths! Please consider making a donation today for this pivotal moment in the Museum’s history and become part of what makes it so great! You can make a donation through our website or by following this link: https://cmssny.org/contribute/
The Children’s Museum at Saratoga is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. Federal ID# 14-1739210. Your contribution is tax-deductible as allowed by law.
03/31/2022
Science Explorers: Adriana Ocampo and Craters | The Children's Museum at Saratoga
Learn about the history and science of Adriana Ocampo!
Today for Science Explorers and the last day of Women's History Month we learned about Adriana Ocampo and discussed crater impacts and what they can tell us....
03/29/2022
Free, Fun and indoors. It's cold outside- play inside!
Join the Museum today from 10:30 am to 11:30 am at Colonie Center for a fun program open to the public!
Hope to see you there!
03/24/2022
Hedy Lamarr and Communication | The Children's Museum at Saratoga
Our partner museum!
Today for Science Explorers today we discussed Hedy Lamarr and learned how to make paper cup telephones to talk with friends!Visit the Museum's website at ht...
03/22/2022
Fun, free, hands-on learning!
Join the Museum on Tuesday, March 29th from 10:30 am to 11:30 am at Colonie Center for a fun program open to the public!
Hope to see you there!
03/18/2022
Science Explorers: St. Patrick's Day | The Children's Museum at Saratoga
Happy Belated St. Patrick’s Day!
Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!Learn how to make a rainbow catcher!Thank you to National Grid for sponsoring Science Explorers.Visit the Museum's website at https...
03/04/2022
Women’s history and coding fun❤️❤️
Learn about Grace Hopper's Contribution to modern coding and create a coding bracelet to encode your initials or name! Use the picture of the binary alphabet to make your own coding bracelet. 💻
Find the YouTube video here: https://youtu.be/uQRufAzLLow
Contact [email protected] to learn more about Museum programs.
This program is sponsored by National Grid
02/18/2022
Join us February 18–21, 2022.
Head outside and engage in science!
Each year people from around the world come together to watch, learn about, count, and celebrate birds. Join us in February!
02/15/2022
Story Time!
02/14/2022
Fun and free program!
Join us on Tuesday, February 15th from 10 am to 11 am at Colonie Center for a fun program open to the public!
It's all about animal habitats and there will be real animal artifacts to look at!
02/13/2022
Our partner museum has programs on social media Tuesday and Thursday!
02/08/2022
Looking for fun outdoors? Check out our friends in Rensselaer!
02/04/2022
Our partnership has allowed programming to continue to reach the children throughout our region.
It makes the staff so happy to get messages like these ones from Paige Elementary after their Iroquois Ingenuity class! This is a big Thank You from everyone here at the Museum!
01/27/2022
Habitat Hunters at Shaker Road Elementary School today!
Thank you for hosting the Museum!
01/19/2022
"I was so happy to be back in the classroom teaching! The kids were inquisitive and engaged in hands on learning" Dawn
01/10/2022
Winter is here! Shoveling, sledding, and ice- great time to learn about states of matter! Learning through play!
12/31/2021
Booking Outreach to schools and community centers around the Capital Region for 2022!
[email protected]
12/03/2021
So happy to be back in the classroom. CMOST is at DPS in East Greenbush today. Thank you for hosting us. CMOST traveling STEAM programs are available for schools, libraries or community centers!
Email [email protected]
09/30/2021
09/02/2021
Some exciting news to share!
Want to learn more? Follow this link:https://cmssny.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/CMOST-CMAS-FINAL-Release-8.31.21.pdf
04/11/2020
Somebunny needs your support...
What has four lucky feet, two floppy ears, and one pink nose? Annabelle, the Official CMOST Assistant to the Easter Bunny! Wishing all our fans, friends, and families a Hoppy Spring from the Children's Museum of Science and Technology (CMOST)!
FUN FACT: Annabelle is one of the only animals at CMOST that doesn't lay eggs. Can you name another one? Click "See More" for the answer.
The care and attention to Annabelle and the dozens of other animals at CMOST is ongoing, as are our efforts to sustain science and technology education through CMOST once the COVID-19 crisis is behind us.
Please help us spread the word through your social media channels that donations of ANY size are greatly appreciated! Donate here: https://78663.blackbaudhosting.com/78663/Individual-Contribution
Answer: African Pygmy Hedgehog
03/16/2020
Mo Willems Is Hosting A Livestream Doodle Starting Today
Who couldn’t use a smidgen of pigeon? 🎨
Yes! Said every parent of littles everywhere.
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Troy, NY
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| Tuesday | 10am - 5pm |
| Wednesday | 10am - 5pm |
| Thursday | 10am - 5pm |
| Friday | 10am - 5pm |
| Saturday | 9am - 5pm |
| Sunday | 10am - 4pm |
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Happy New Year! Sending best wishes for a play-filled, STEAM-tastic 2020 🥳
Leash Training Elmer!
We are slowing leash training Elmer. As you can see, Elmer is very food motivated!
Last chance for Medieval Mayhem!
Last chance for Medieval Mayhem!
Weekly camps - STEAM field trips - Daily activities #[email protected]!
CMOST staff members have a lot of patience!
Make it and Taste it - Learn how to make butter.
Today during Farm to Museum Day visitors got the chance to help our educators make butter from scratch.
Skyline Toolbox Landspeeder
Visitors were able to build a working landspeeder with Skyline toolbox. Visit our Play Space to see what you can create!
CMOST Staff were joined by students from Susan O'Dell Taylor Middle School for A Day In the Life of the Hudson River. Approximately 5,500 children participated in this event along the length of the estuary. The children performed a variety of experiments to determine water quality, measure tides and currents, and observe the river. We even saw some awesome fish and a bald eagle. What a great day!
Campers got their cool science demo. #scienceyoucaneat.
CMOST on Spectrum News
VP Catherine Gilbert had a fun chat with Julie Chapman on Spectrum News Capital Region this morning
Engineering challenge!
CMOST will be open 10-5 everyday during Spring Break week 4/17/17-4/23/17!
Chemistry fun during this morning's Science Cart activity.
Time Warner Cable News: Students explore Hudson River Ecosyste...
We had a great day yesterday exploring "a Day in the Life of the Hudson River" with students from Abram Lansing Elementary school at Schodack Island State Park.
A sneak peek into our #DayofPlay activity
Join our educator, Allison, as she shows you her technique for looping rubber bands to attach dowels together in this really fun and creative building activity. Join us at The Musuem on Friday for our #DayofPlay activity and we'll all build great structures together as we put on our engineering hats!
We're enjoying our Sunday #tinkering with #littleBits powered Lego cars. Check out what our visitors made!
Join us Saturday at 1:00 PM for #MakeItTakeIt LED stickers and make your own #DIY circuit drawings.
Our camper are putting their #stem skills to the test. They'll be doing a live demo in The Museum today at 3:30 PM. Consider stopping by to check them out and all that they're learning this week.
Ed staff is busy prepping for Thursday's #homeschool #science enrichment program "Earth Science Investigators." There's still time to sign up! Call us at 518-235-2120.
We love #reptiles around here, it's just who we are. If you do too, then visit Operation WILD and check out all the different reptiles in our living animal collection. http://cmost.org/exhibits/nature_space.php. Also, check out this super neat 3D dinosaur the CNSE CMOST education team made! If you'd like to see this as an activity, let us know!
Check out one of our White Catfish swimming around in our Living Hudson River exhibit. Do you know what an estuary is? It is a body of water where fresh water and salt water meet. However, the White Catfish in this tank is from a freshwater estuary, which does not contain saltwater. #hudsonriver #fish
Can anyone guess what the State fish is? We'll give you a couple of hints: we have them here at The Museum as part of our Living Hudson River exhibit and you can watch them in this video (they just got fed so they're pretty excited.) http://www.cmost.org/exhibits/nature_space.php
Mealworms anyone? Actually, I think we'd just stick with the lettuce, but that's not the only staple in the diets of the animals in our Operation WILD collection. Watch as Jamie, a museum educator, explains feeding time at our museum. Stop by for a visit and learn all about plants, animals and natural resources in our Nature Place - we'll have an Animals Live! show today at 11:30 AM: http://www.cmost.org/exhibits/nature_space.php
Our museum educators frequently get asked if snakes drink water & in fact, they do! Watch our Honduran Milk Snake down some. Fun fact about the Milk Snake: it gets its name from a myth that they can milk cows! The truth is that they just like to hang out in barns. Come meet this snake, who is part of our living animal collection in Operation WILD. http://cmost.org/exhibits/nature_space.php
Did you spot the snake?! If you're looking for something to do this weekend, stop by on Sunday at 1PM for our Animal Spotlight program at Operation WILD and participate in activities to learn more about our interesting inhabitants. http://cmost.org/exhibits/nature_space.php
Today's Make It & Take It-Mini-Bots was a lot of fun. Twenty-five boys and girls joined me to build their very own little robots, that they took home with them. Check it out:
Think like an engineer and rev up your problem-solving skills! Our Magnetic Ball Wall allows you to construct pathways that intersect and have ball races with siblings and friends, all while challenging yourself to create new configurations. Fun for all ages!
Watch our Box #Turtles munch on one of their favorite meals! You might be surprised to learn they enjoy some of the same foods as us. Join us this Sunday (4/12) at 1:00 PM for our Animal Spotlight to find out more about Box Turtles. Our daily schedules can be found here: http://cmost.org/plan_a_visit/detailed_calendar.php
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Last September, The Children's Museum of Science and Technology (CMOST) and The Children's Museum at Saratoga signed a management agreement and will reopen in June of 2022 at a new shared location at the Lincoln Bathhouse in Saratoga Spa State Park. This new space will create a regional children’s museum with CMAS managing all aspects of operations, programming, and administration and CMOST expanding their programming. This relocation will feature a larger space with new exhibitions, interactives, classroom space, and access to the natural resources and amenities of the State Park.
In our January "This Month in NYS Museums" newsletter we spoke with CMAS Executive Director Sarah Smith to learn more about what this collaboration will look like and the reimagined space.
Read more: https://nysmuseums.org/MANYnews/12314540
In our January "This Month in NYS Museums" newsletter we spoke with CMAS Executive Director Sarah Smith to learn more about what this collaboration will look like and the reimagined space.
Read more: https://nysmuseums.org/MANYnews/12314540
FREE ONLINE PRESCHOOL FOR EVERYONE IN NOVEMBER!!!
We have had such an outpouring of people interested in our scholarship I’ve decided to use the scholarship fundraiser as a jumpstart and extend the offer to everyone else who has shown great excitement in joining our school family!
This is an amazing opportunity to see Swam City Pre-K in action. I’m confident once you and your children are engaged in the program you’ll LOVE it!!!
You will have 4 prerecorded sessions (about 30 minutes each) available to you each weekend in November. This is preschool on demand so watch, pause, and rewind when it’s convenient for your family!
YES, I want FREE online preschool taught by a teacher with a master’s degree in early childhood education!
Comment below: HOORAY FOR PRE-K! and send me a DM saying “FREE.” I will message you back with directions to access your new online preschool beginning Halloween weekend!
Now, GO, comment and DM and then tell everyone you know to hurry and sign up before it’s too late!!!
We have had such an outpouring of people interested in our scholarship I’ve decided to use the scholarship fundraiser as a jumpstart and extend the offer to everyone else who has shown great excitement in joining our school family!
This is an amazing opportunity to see Swam City Pre-K in action. I’m confident once you and your children are engaged in the program you’ll LOVE it!!!
You will have 4 prerecorded sessions (about 30 minutes each) available to you each weekend in November. This is preschool on demand so watch, pause, and rewind when it’s convenient for your family!
YES, I want FREE online preschool taught by a teacher with a master’s degree in early childhood education!
Comment below: HOORAY FOR PRE-K! and send me a DM saying “FREE.” I will message you back with directions to access your new online preschool beginning Halloween weekend!
Now, GO, comment and DM and then tell everyone you know to hurry and sign up before it’s too late!!!
There’s rumors that you guys are closed for good. Is this real? 
Happy Friday everybody!
Meet our reptilian friends in corresponding order of the photos: corn snake, blue-tongued skink, and ball python. Check out their unique coloring and patterns on their scales!
Did you know reptiles typically shed their skin more frequently when they are young? To learn more check out this quick easy read:
https://www.petplace.com/article/reptiles/general/shedding-in-reptiles/
Thank you to The Children's Museum of Science and Technology (CMOST) for transferring the animals to us! They are doing well in their new home.
Meet our reptilian friends in corresponding order of the photos: corn snake, blue-tongued skink, and ball python. Check out their unique coloring and patterns on their scales!
Did you know reptiles typically shed their skin more frequently when they are young? To learn more check out this quick easy read:
https://www.petplace.com/article/reptiles/general/shedding-in-reptiles/
Thank you to The Children's Museum of Science and Technology (CMOST) for transferring the animals to us! They are doing well in their new home.
Hello friends, How are you? Let's talk about a Virtual Art program via Zoom or pre-recorded art demonstrations using recycled materials that I have produced for kids & families.
Best regards,
Michael Albert
Best regards,
Michael Albert
Our next featured Bestie winner is The Children's Museum of Science and Technology 🔬, which won the Children's Museum category!
The Children's Museum of Science and Technology (CMOST)
Live snakes 🐍, rabbits 🐇, owls 🦉 and lizards 🦎, anyone? Toddlers, preschoolers and elementary school-age kids have fun in Dino Discovery 🦕, play with gravity on the Magnetic Ball Wall and create their own inventions using kid-sized tools 🔧 in Tinker Space. Shhh! 🤫 There’s even a Sensory Science Room, a quiet and calming space.
Check out the complete list of People & Places Besties winners here: https://www.crlmag.com/besties-2020/
The Children's Museum of Science and Technology (CMOST)
Live snakes 🐍, rabbits 🐇, owls 🦉 and lizards 🦎, anyone? Toddlers, preschoolers and elementary school-age kids have fun in Dino Discovery 🦕, play with gravity on the Magnetic Ball Wall and create their own inventions using kid-sized tools 🔧 in Tinker Space. Shhh! 🤫 There’s even a Sensory Science Room, a quiet and calming space.
Check out the complete list of People & Places Besties winners here: https://www.crlmag.com/besties-2020/
Hi Friends! I hope all is well with you. We are working hard to bring all of our spring open houses online. Would you please share our next virtual open house for Middle School on Wedneday? Here is the event page- https://www.facebook.com/events/277363253657467/
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Planet Parker & CMOST camps are now open for summer registration!
Can you share info about your programs for homeschoolers?
TIA!
TIA!
Ring In The Noon Year With Frozen Science at The Children's Museum of Science and Technology (CMOST)
Searching for kid-friendly parties for New Year's Eve? Head to The Children's Museum of Science and Technology (CMOST), Colonie Center, or Bethlehem First Night 2020 Celebration with Bethlehem Chamber. For more details: https://bit.ly/2PtD8da