Da Vinci Science Center names Scott Babashak, Liz Keptner as official spokesparents

FROM THE EXPRESS TIMES

Da Vinci Science Center has tapped a pair of Bethlehem parents who are familiar to many Lehigh Valley families to help teach about the fun, educational, close-to-home experiences it offers.

Former CBS3 Eyewitness News anchor and WFMZ-TV 69News anchor and reporter Liz Keptner and her husband of eight years, former 69News reporter Scott Babashak, have been named the Da Vinci Science spokesmom and spokesdad.

Keptner and Babashak have a 6-year-old daughter, Sophie, who will appear with them in a series of short videos highlighting Da Vinci experiences from a parent's perspective, a news release says. The videos will appear on the center's new website, set to launch next month, and the couple will be invited to attend events.

They're members of the Allentown attraction. Sophie has participated in summer camps and celebrated her birthday with a party there last fall, the news release says.

“We love coming to the Da Vinci Science Center because it presents affordable and accessible experiences that are enjoyable for Sophie, Scott and me and will help our daughter build a successful life as an adult,” Keptner says in the news release. “We are honored that the Center asked us to serve as its spokesparents, and we look forward to helping raise awareness about it.”

The facility has 10,000 square feet of exhibits and more than 30 programs, focusing on science and mathematics.

Keptner and Babashak left WFMZ-TV to work as reporters for a Fox news station in Sacramento, Calif., in 2004. They returned to Pennsylvania in 2005, when Keptner joined CBS3, where she worked for five years. She left the station in May 2010 and is now executive producer at Valley Social TV.

Babashak is a certified financial planner for GF Pension in Bethlehem.

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