The Hub will host its second “Lightbulb Lab” on Valentine’s Day. The program is designed to encourage young children to start thinking about what they might want to do when they grow up.

“When things get very expensive, if instead of buying one for each school, we can get the equipment, the people—whoever it is—in one location and be able to share it amongst the schools, it makes it much more cost effective, and not only for the schools, but for the taxpayers of Allen County as well,” Kupferberg said.