Raised in Seattle, Amber Kern grew up going to Pacific Science Center. She rode the 20-foot-tall high rail balance bicycle — a true test of her trust in gravity — and blew bubbles at the annual Bubble Festival.
Now 42, she’s passed on her interest in science and love of Pacific Science Center to her 13-year-old twin girls, Sarah and Suri Kern, both of whom want to be neurosurgeons when they grow up and rave about the center’s summer dissection camp.
“It was nice to be exposed to that environment because I felt like I could talk to other people who like science as much as I do,” Suri said.
The Pacific Science Center property, adjacent to Seattle Center though privately run as a nonprofit, was built as the federally sponsored United States…