Whether you are strolling or scrolling, you will have fun learning something new with the Poe Center’s unique features and exhibits. From our playground to our website, interactive learning is only a visit or click away.
On-Site Features
Visitors engage with museum-quality exhibits, interactive technology, and hands-on learning.
Online Exhibits and Experiences
Visit one of Poe’s beautifully designed and interactive online exhibits. Each site features dozens of informative hotspots covering a wide-range of health-science topics.
Neural Fortification Fortnite Island
Designed for middle – high school students, players embark on a journey to make healthy nutritional, social, and growth mindset choices to fortify resilience within themselves. Challenges empower players to make connections between their choices and brain health, putting them in charge of their own neural development.
Take a fruit- or veggie-themed selfie!
Use your mobile device and scan the QR code or click the button to take a fun veggie selfie.
Share the selfie with your friends to remind them to eat lots of colorful vegetables such as tomatoes, broccoli, and carrots!
Poe & Grow Garden
Roll over each element of Poe’s digital garden to learn helpful facts and find valuable resources for growing a year-round garden for your school or community.
Online CookWELL Kitchen
Cooking and kitchen skills can help develop healthy food choices, preferences, attitudes, and behaviors. Click through Poe’s digital kitchen to learn more about the basics of preparing meals and snacks, along with important kitchen skills and safety skills.
Prescription Medicine Safety Toolkit
Prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications, and household chemicals have their dangers, and must be properly used, secured and disposed of. This online exhibit provides important information to help create safe homes and communities for youth and adults.
Health History Mural
To commemorate the Poe Center’s 25th anniversary, North Carolina artist Nicholas Bragg created a one-of-a-kind mural which captures Poe’s past, present, and future within the context of world history. This online version of the mural allows you to explore the Poe Center’s history anytime, anywhere!