Times Union: Museum merger underscores dreams of expansion
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Scotia-Glenville Children's Museum merging with CMOST
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="775"] Ten-year-old Schenectady resident Lou Price participates in the Scotia-Glenville Children's Museum's program at a free camp for city kids in Central Park this summer.[/caption]
Albany
The fast-expanding SUNY Poly's Children's Museum of Science and Technology has high hopes of one day running a science outreach program for children across New York state.
Toward that end, CMOST announced Wednesday it intends to merge with the Scotia-Glenville Children's Museum, giving it access to traveling science outreach programs across the Capital Region.
CMOST's existing outreach programs are much smaller, said Pradeep Haldar, a SUNY Poly vice president who is also now CMOST's board chairman.
"We can take some of the programming done at CMOST as well as at (Scotia-Glenville), take the best processes and expand it to many other locations," Haldar said.
Haldar mentioned Utica, Syracuse and Rochester as goals for expansion.
By J.p. Lawrence
Published 9:48 pm, Thursday, January 28, 2016