2018 Opening Minds to Science: The Saint Louis Science Center’s Report to the Community

This annual report presents an overview of Saint Louis Science Center audience data gathered through a variety of evaluation studies conducted during 2018. This report includes information on the Science Center's general public audience demographics and visitation patterns, gives an overview of visitors' comments about their Science Center experience, summarizes major trends observed in the Science Center's tool for tracking educational programs, and presents highlights from three exhibit evaluations: front-end evaluation for GameXPloration, formative evaluation for augmentations to the Smithsonian’s Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission, and summative evaluation for Mission: Mars.