Creativity! Cultivating an Essential Skill for Future Entrepreneurs

How do we prepare children for the 21st Century workforce using creativity in museums?

CCC Seven Components of Creativity

IMLS 21st Century Learning and Innovation Skills

IBM “Redefining Competition” Report

Imagination and Originality Creativity and Innovation Business Model Changes

Flexibility Visual Literacy Invite Disruptive Innovation

Decision Making Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

Change the Enterprise

Communication and Self-Expression

Communication and Collaboration Comfortable with Ambiguity

Motivation Scientific and Numerical Literacy Score high on Innovation

Collaboration Cross Disciplinary Thinking Alter the Status Quo

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Top Three Rankings of the Seven Components of Creativity across the 87 Sites

Participating Science Centers and Museums City State

Adler Planetarium Chicago IL

Adventure Science Center Nashville TN

Air Zoo Portage MI

Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum Ann Arbor MI

Arizona Science Center Phoenix AZ

Boston Children's Museum Boston MA

Bruce Museum Greenwich CT

Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention Gainesville FL

Cape Fear Museum of History and Science Wilmington NC

Carnegie Science Center Pittsburgh PA

Center for Aquatic Sciences Camden NJ

Centro Criollo de Ciencia y Tecnologia del Caribe Caguas PR

Chabot Space & Science Center Oakland CA

Children’s Science Center Herndon VA

Children's Creativity Museum San Francisco CA

Children's Museum of Illinois Decatur IL

Children's Museum of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA

Children's Museum Tucson Tucson AZ

Coca-Cola Space Science Center Columbus GA

Connecticut Science Center Hartford CT

Corning Museum of Glass Corning NY

CuriOdyssey San Mateo CA

Delaware Museum of Natural History Wilmington DE

Discovery Center Murfreesboro TN

Discovery Center Museum Rockford IL

Discovery Center of Idaho Boise ID

Discovery Museum and Planetarium Bridgeport CT

Discovery Place Charlotte NC

ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center Burlington VT

Hagley Museum & Library Wilmington DE

Explora Science Center & Children's Museum of Albuquerque Albuquerque NW

Exploration Place Wichita KS

Garden State Discovery Museum Center for Learning Cherry Hill NJ

Gateway to Science Bismarck ND

Grout Museum District Waterloo IA

Gulf of Maine Research Institute Portland ME

Harvard Museums of Science and Culture Cambridge MA

International Museum of Art & Science McAllen TX

Kentucky Science Center Louisville KY

Kidspace Museum Pasadena CA

Lake Superior Zoo Duluth MN

Lander Children's Museum Lander WY

Lawrence Hall of Science Berkeley CA

Living Arts & Science Center Lexington, KY

Louisiana Art & Science Museum Baton Rouge LA

Marbles Kids Museum Raleigh NC

Maryland Science Center Baltimore MD

McWane Science Center Birmingham AL

miSci (Museum of Innovation and Science) Schenectady NY

Montshire Museum of Science Norwich VT

Museum of Discovery and Science Fort Lauderdale FL

Museum of Life and Science Durham NC

Museum of Science & History Jacksonville FL

Museum of Science & Industry (MOSI) Tampa FL

Museum of Science, Boston Boston MA

North Museum of Nature and Science Lancaster PA

Orlando Science Center Orlando FL

Palouse Discovery Science Center Pullman WA

Pensacola MESS Hall Pensacola FL

Peoria Riverfront Museum Peoria IL

Powerhouse Science Center Durango CO

Putnam Museum and Science Center Davenport IA

Reuben H. Fleet Science Center San Diego CA

Rochester Museum & Science Center Rochester NY

Science Center of Iowa Des Moines IA

Science Central Fort Wayne IN

Science Factory Children's Museum and Exploration Dome Eugene OR

Science Museum of Minnesota Saint Paul MN

Science Spectrum Lubbock TX

Sciencenter Ithaca NY

Sci-Port: Louisiana's Science Center Shreveport LA

Space Foundation Colorado Springs CO

SPI (Science Play-Space Initiative) Mount Vernon OH

St. Louis Science Center Foundation Saint Louis MO

The Bakken Minneapolis MN

The Franklin Institute Philadelphia PA

The Leonardo Salt Lake City UT

The Muse Knoxville Knoxville TN

The Springs Preserve Las Vegas NV

The Tech Museum of Innovation San Jose CA

Imagination Station Toledo OH

Town of Normal Children's Discovery Museum Normal IL

Turtle Bay Exploration Park Redding CA

Union Station Kansas City Kansas City MO

Virginia Living Museum Newport News VA

Virginia Museum of Natural History Martinsville VA

EcoTarium Worcester MA

IMLS recognizes the need for children and youth to develop 21st Century Skills to equip them for success in a fast-paced, technological world. One of the pillars of learning and innovation skills is creativity. IMLS adapted and defined what creativity skills look like in a museum or library context with a view to creating some building blocks to grow individualized programs specific to a particular museum or library’s mission that will inspire young people to flourish within their communities and their careers – see the IMLS categories in the pink box to the right. In a recent 2010 study, CEOs of major corporations identified creativity as the most important skill for successfully navigating our increasingly complex world – see the IBM categories in the blue box and circles to the right.

Creativity Garden, funded in 2015-2016 by Disney, provided creativity-enhancing experiences to more than 75,000 children and youth (aged 6 to 14) through nearly a quarter of a million hours of programming, focused on reaching traditionally underserved populations. The 87 minigrants were distributed to a wide range of ASTC-member institutions in both urban and rural settings covering 38 states, including Puerto Rico. The museums varied in size with 24% representing very small institutions (less than $1million Annual Operating Income (AOI)), 25% small ($1 to 3million AOI), 39% medium ($3 to 10million AOI), and 13% large (greater than $10million AOI). The Center for Childhood Creativity white paper, Inspiring a Generation to Create: Critical Components of Creativity in Children provided the key research for the project. Participating science centers and museums were asked to incorporate at least three components of creativity into their programming.

How would you match the CCC Seven Components of Creativity (green) and the IMLS 21st Century Learning and Innovation Skills (pink) with the IBM creativity skills (blue) that employers are looking for? Sort the green and pink magnetic strips to match the blue circles below

Program Managers: Lesley Markham and Wendy Hancock Creativitygarden.org

Program types provided by the participating science centers and museums

Participating Science Centers and Museums Definitions of Creativity from the Center for Childhood Creativity (green); the Institute of Museum and Library Services; and the IBM Redefining Competition report