Protected: Mr. Ben Dickow
Benjamin Dickow is the founder and chair of the LA STEM Collective, a new intermediary organization to integrate and make more accessible the out-of-school time / expanded learning resources in Greater Los Angeles. Dickow also serves as the President and Executive Director of the Columbia Memorial Space Center, a space museum and hands-on STEM learning center located in Downey, California, where he is the City’s Library Director, as well.
Dickow’s work is informed by over 25 years of experience in education. He has served in major museums in cities such as Chicago and Los Angeles; as the Creative Director at a large museum design firm; as a director for a resource center of the National Science Foundation; and as a consultant, developing science and children’s museum experiences and leading master planning initiatives for organizations.
Dickow holds a degree from the University of Chicago and has been fortunate to be able to use a number of different media to engage the public with learning outside of the classroom including exhibits, print, the web, and as an on-air correspondent for the PBS television program “Wired Science.” In 2008, Dickow founded the community-based Westside Science Club, which worked for 10 years to bring interactive learning experiences to underserved youth in LA in partnership with low-income housing providers.