Upcoming events
Shreveport-Bossier Maker Faire at the Barksdale Air Show (STEM Zone)
Saturday March 29 & Sunday March 30, 2025. The Maker Faire is proud to bring its Makers to the BAFB Air Show! There is no cost for exploring the STEM Zone and speaking, interacting, and learning from our amazing Makers! With 200,000 visitors anticipated at the weekend-long event, there should be at least 10,000 visitors at the Hangar Full of STEM if not more. Plus, you can go outside the Hangar to watch the amazing Air Show too!
Shreveport-Bossier Maker Faire – Get Energized at Sci-Port Discovery Center!
Saturday, April 12, 2025. Admission to the Shreveport-Bossier Maker Faire is free with General Admission to Sci-Port Discovery Center. Add-on activities (e.g., soldering workshops, or custom creations) can be purchased separately from vendors.
ONGOING SPONSORED PROGRAMS
New! Admissions & Outreach Assistance to all 10 LASTEM7 Parishes by Centerpoint
Admissions assistance to Sci-Port Discovery and Outreach assistance to your site
New! Admissions Assistance for Caddo Parish
Please contact reservations@sciport.org first to reserve your date
New! Admissions Assistance for Bossier & De Soto Parishes
New! Admissions Assistance for Bossier & De Soto Parishes
Please contact reservations@sciport.org first to reserve your date
KeY Programs of LASTEM & NLASTEAM Alliance
"Bars without Barriers," Prison Outreach - Teaching Incarcerated Fathers How to Be STEM Role Models
This is a training program in which returning citizens in the Caddo Correctional Center’s Re-entry program are trained to engage their own children in hands-on STEM (science, technology, engineering and math). With support by IMLS, Grayson Foundation, the Beaird Family Foundation, and LASTEM
Community Engagement
Our Community Partners and Hosts like Sci-Port can come to you for out-of-school time events, STEM fairs and festivals. Featured in this photo is LASTEM Outreach Associate, David Isaacs, presenting the Van de Graaff generator.
FIRST Inspires
FIRST Inspires
Sci-Port Discovery Center and LASTEM Region 7 is home to two community-based FIRST Teams: FIRST TECH Challenge and NASA-sponsored FIRST Robotics Competition.
#Summer of LASTEM and beyond
Join Our FIRST Robotics Team!
High school level NASA-sponsored FIRST Robotics Competition Community-Based Team #9708 meets at Sci-Port Discovery Center. We are still recruiting students. The competition will be held April 2-5, 2025 in Kenner, LA.
Be an Astronomer!
With GSK Science in the Summer(TM), the Franklin Institute's NGSS-aligned programming puts the child (2nd-6th grade) at the center of the learning experience. Each Be a Space Scientist! activity highlights a real-world career through a story that invites children to play the role of a person in that career: Astrobiologist, Planetary Geologist, Robotics Engineer, Rocket Engineer, and Spacesuit Designer. Programming is at no cost to participants. Stay tuned for summer 2025!
Have a BRITE Summer!
Have a BRITE Summer!
Building Relevance and Identity to Transform Experiences (BRITE) is An online program for teenage girls aspiring in STEM potential. Scan the QR code to register. Programming is at no cost to participants. This program has been completed.
Past sponsored Programs
Admissions Assistance for Caddo Parish
Admissions Assistance to all 10 LASTEM7 Parishes by Centerpoint
Admissions Assistance for DeSoto & Bossier Parish
Funded by ACT447 off the Regular Legislative Session of 2023, Supported 3,815 students & teachers field trips and 6,986 outreach participants.
Admissions Assistance for DeSoto & Bossier Parish
Admissions Assistance to all 10 LASTEM7 Parishes by Centerpoint
Admissions Assistance for DeSoto & Bossier Parish
Thanks to a grant from Verizon, 479 students & teachers from 8 different schools enjoyed free admission to Sci-Port.
Admissions Assistance to all 10 LASTEM7 Parishes by Centerpoint
Admissions Assistance to all 10 LASTEM7 Parishes by Centerpoint
Supported by a grant from Centerpoint, 2,528 students & teachers visited Sci-Port from 38 schools across Region 7.
NASA Aeronautics Museum in a Box Cohort 1
In collaboration with NASA and Central Creativity, Sci-Port/LASTEM Region 7 produced 100 prototype Museum in a Box kits for Aeronautics. Kits contain 14 different activities. Cohort 1 was held with Barksdale Airforce Base homeschool groups.
NASA Aeronautics Museum in a Box Cohort 2
Cohort 2 is a convergence of two programs - using the NASA Aeronautics Museum in a Box kits at Caddo Correctional Center Re-Entry Facility for "Dads without Barriers" where incarcerated fathers teach their children STEM. Note: there were 50 high school kits and 50 middle school kits. A generous grant from Capital One supported the high school kits. Each kit contains a student guide with career information for every activity.
NASA Aeronautics Museum in a Box Cohort 3
Cohort 3 was held at Northwestern State University STEM Pioneers led by Dr. Jafar Al Sharab. Student is testing one of the activities in the book. Stay tuned for a video from Cohort 4, held at Stockwell Elementary led by LEAD STEM member, Ida Smith!