Cambio means change.
KidZone Museum, among just five chosen nationwide, has earned the prestigious Cambio badge after completing the year-long Cambio program! In partnership with the Exploratorium and the CCLI, this honor recognizes our commitment to creating culturally relevant and responsive STEM experiences for Latinx communities.
Through this program, we’ve developed a strategic initiative that will enhance our engagement with the Latinx community, bringing innovative and inclusive STEM programming to our visitors.
We’ll reconvene for a summit in 2025 to help reflect learnings for the museum field. Stay tuned for updates on our exciting new projects, including community listening sessions and bilingual programming!
Our Strategic Initiative
About Cambio
Museums pursuing ambitious goals through incremental change.
Cambio is a National Science Foundation-funded professional development project for informal learning institutions—zoos, children’s museums, science centers, and other similar organizations—across the United States.
In practice, Cambio offers a yearlong professional development program, along with resources and tools for museum professionals. We help museums shift internal practices to better create STEM experiences that are culturally relevant, responsive, and sustaining to Latinx audiences.
Cambio’s vision centers on encouraging organizations to shift their practices at all levels by examining the cultural dimensions and intersections of Latinx communities, STEM, and organizational change.
The Cambio experience focuses on incremental change in organizational practice, building on strengths, and improving what they do well, with a goal of long-term transformational change that includes questioning assumptions, examining systems, and changing structures toward more equitable institution-wide change.
To learn more about our participation in Cambio, email Carol at info@kidzonemuseum.org
