Starting in October, Art of Science Learning Incubators for Innovation in San Diego’s Balboa Park, Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry and Worcester’s EcoTarium will bring together 30 cross-disciplinary innovation teams of STEM professionals, artists, educators, business leaders and students. Participants will learn arts-based techniques for generating, transforming, prototyping and communicating creative ideas, which they will apply to civic innovation challenges and the development of new educational projects that integrate the arts into STEM learning. The civic challenges chosen by each community are water resources (San Diego), urban nutrition (Chicago) and transportation alternatives (Worcester).