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Stepping Stones Museum Uses Grant To Set Up Energy Maze At Calf Pasture

NORWALK, Conn. -- A grant from Energize Connecticut will allow the Stepping Stones Museum for Children and the City of Norwalk’s Recreation and Parks Department to team up to bring a fun and free museum experience to visitors at Calf Pasture Beach this summer.

Stepping Stones Museum for Children and Norwalk’s Recreation and Parks Department will bring a fun and free museum experience to visitors at Calf Pasture Beach this summer -- the museum’s Conservation Quest Maze.

Stepping Stones Museum for Children and Norwalk’s Recreation and Parks Department will bring a fun and free museum experience to visitors at Calf Pasture Beach this summer -- the museum’s Conservation Quest Maze.

 Photo Credit: Stepping Stones Museum For Children
by The Daily Voice

The museum’s Conservation Quest Maze will be installed at Calf Pasture for visitors to explore from Saturday, July 13, weather dependent, through Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 2. It conveys important energy conservation messages as children and adults explore the 2,200-square-foot, visually spectacular maze. 

“We are excited and we hope beach visitors of all ages will find simple ways to become environmental stewards and make thoughtful choices about energy use," Rhonda Kiest, executive director of Stepping Stones Museum for Children, said in a statement. "We are grateful to the City of Norwalk and its Recreation and Parks Department for their support as fantastic community partners and for hosting this important, interactive and fun museum experience at this very unique venue.”

In keeping with a joint commitment to inspire children to become good environmental stewards, Stepping Stones and the Norwalk Recreation and Parks Department invite beach patrons to take a fun, interactive journey through the Conservation Quest Maze. The maze teaches children and families fun lessons about energy – what it is, where it comes from, how it’s used and why it’s so important to use it wisely. It shares facts and challenges visitors to take responsibility by using less energy. At the end of their journey, visitors are encouraged to make personal commitments to conserve energy, protect the planet and promote healthy living.

The Conservation Quest Maze:

  • Explores energy use at home, in business, manufacturing and transportation;
  • Compares nonrenewable and renewable sources of energy;
  • Presents ways to save with light bulbs, electricity and recycling;
  • Shows what happens to trash and offers solutions to reduce what ends up in landfills; and
  • Examines energy-saving inventions and the future of energy.

The Conservation Quest Maze builds upon Stepping Stones Museum for Children’s commitment to energy conservation education and environmental responsibility and highlights its environmental initiatives, including a green roof, a wind turbine, rain gardens, the use of renewable resources in our building materials and much more. 

Energize Connecticut is an initiative dedicated to empowering Connecticut citizens to make smart energy choices, now and in the future. Its provides Connecticut consumers, businesses and communities the resources and information they need to make it easy to save energy and build a clean energy future.  

Stepping Stones is located at 303 West Ave., Norwalk. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.. Admission is $15 for adults and children. Children under 1 are free. To learn more, call 203-899-0606 or visit www.steppingstonesmuseum.org.

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