🌍 Big Data & Big Ideas: Science on a Sphere at LSC + STEM at iCode! 🛰️📊

Event: Science On a Sphere Educational Programs

When: Ongoing Field Trips & Live Programs (Available online or in-person at LSC)

Where: Weston Family Lab for Earth and Space Exploration at Liberty Science Center (Jersey City, NJ)

Event link: Liberty Science Center – Science on a Sphere

Who it’s for: Pre-K through 12th Grade

Why we love it 💛 Data has never looked this cool! Liberty Science Center offers the only publicly available NOAA “Science On a Sphere” in New Jersey. This stunning, six-foot spherical visualization globe displays hundreds of high-resolution animations using authentic, real-time data from NASA and NOAA. Depending on your child’s grade level, LSC educators use the sphere to teach everything from basic weather patterns (Pre-K) to complex climate change models and plate tectonics (High School). We love seeing complex data brought vividly to life!

How this event aligns with iCode Princeton 🌈⚙️ The incredible visualizations you see on the sphere are completely powered by computer science! Before a hurricane track or an earthquake can be projected onto a globe, scientists have to use code to collect, analyze, and model millions of data points. At iCode Princeton, we teach the exact programming languages used to make this happen:

• 📊 Data Science & Python: For older students, the “wow” factor of seeing tectonic plates shift is just the beginning. In our advanced Python and Java Belts, kids learn how to write real-world code to sort data, build analytical models, and solve complex problems, just like the scientists at NOAA!

• 🌦️ Cause, Effect & Coding: For our youngest learners, understanding how weather changes from season to season is an exercise in logic. In our STEAM Junior Program, we take that natural curiosity and teach kids how to use block coding to program cause-and-effect sequences.

• 🌍 Simulate Your Own World: The sphere models our planet, but what if your child wants to build their own? In our Game Development Track, kids use 3D engines to build interactive digital worlds, programming their own rules for gravity, physics, and weather.

Join the fun, then keep the momentum going at iCode 🎒🚀 Start by exploring the forces that shape our planet at Liberty Science Center, then bring that curiosity to iCode Princeton where we turn data and logic into real-world tech skills!

👉 Explore iCode Princeton: https://icodeschool.com/princeton-nj

🟣 Progression-based Belts (K–12): https://icodeschool.com/princeton-nj/belts/

🔍 See what’s running now: https://icodeschool.com/princeton-nj/activity-finder/

🎟️ Ready to start coding? Book a Free Trial Class: https://icodeschool.com/princeton-nj/book-a-free-trial-class/