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ScienceWorks Needs Your Help To Grow and Thrive!
ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum is a community-supported 501(C)(3) Non-Profit Organization.
We support our community with our mission of inspiring curiosity and wonder through scientific exploration and interactive experiences. Our goal is to encourage our community to participate in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics (STEAM)!
We strive to constantly serve our community in ways that meet your needs for childcare, education, and safe activities for families in the area. Every donation, large or small is a vital contribution towards our goal to be a welcoming space where we spark curiosity and wonder in every guest who visits.
In 2025, we are dedicating ourselves to renewing our partnerships and refreshing our museum. With your help, we will grow our exhibits, create new family events, and help support other organizations doing good work for our community. We just need you to catalyze the dream! We love our community and we hope that you will help ScienceWorks in the coming year! Support your ScienceWorks today, and we promise to continue to support you in new and meaningful ways all year long.
ScienceWorks by the Numbers - 2024
+25,000
Guests welcomed to our museum through daily admission, events, and celebrations
100
Summer Camps funded through scholarships to underserved communities
7,700
Students experienced STEAM workshops and museum visits through their schools
As a low-income family having a place like ScienceWorks available to us has been amazing. We have enjoyed every event we have attended, as well as the regular time spent in the museum. Having the opportunity to attend a summer camp was very meaningful for my child and we hope we can do it again!
-Local Parent, Summer 2024
Our staff are heroes who inspire the next generation of critical thinkers and problem solvers. Without the work they do, we would not have a ScienceWorks.
-Piper Von Chamier, ScienceWorks Board President
I am so appreciative of the efforts you and your team put into making the camp an inclusive and neurodiversity-affirming environment. I highly recommend your camp to other families and look forward to the opportunity for my son to engage in camp again next summer. Thank you for everything you do to create such a positive and enriching experience for the kids.
-Local Parent, Summer 2024
Thank you to the foundations who power our mission.
Their generosity helps us spark curiosity, inspire creative problem-solving, and offer hands-on science experiences for learners of all ages. These partners make it possible for ScienceWorks to grow, innovate, and serve our community with engaging programs, joyful play, and meaningful learning opportunities. We’re deeply grateful for their support.
ScienceWorks Gives Back!
We happily donate day passes to nonprofit community partners for use in their fundraising efforts.
To help manage the requests for donated passes in a manner that maximizes the impact of our limited inventory designated for donations, ScienceWorks has established the following guidelines:
- ScienceWorks can only donate day passes to nonprofit or tax-exempt organizations. We are unable to provide passes to individuals or groups without tax-exempt status. Exceptions may be made for PTAs and PTOs.
- ScienceWorks can not give monetary donations.
- ScienceWorks has chosen to donate passes to local organizations whose work is congruent with our mission. Your organization must be raising funds for education or youth and family services, including medical disorder research and support.
For example, school fundraisers or carnivals, children’s programs, scholarship funds, and services to individuals with medical conditions would all qualify as eligible.
- The donation of ScienceWorks passes must result in a direct cash benefit to your organization.
For example, we will donate passes to be included in a raffle or auction that generates cash gifts for your organization. We do not donate passes to be used as complimentary door prizes, employee or volunteer incentives, or thank-you gifts.
- To request a day pass donation, please click here to complete the request form.
- Once your request has been received and approved, a response and passes will be sent to your organization.
- Donations are limited to 4 passes per organization per calendar year.
ScienceWorks receives many requests for donated passes every day. Please allow time for us to respond to your request and refrain from calling to follow up on its status. Due to the volume of requests we receive, we are unable to return individual phone calls. We appreciate your consideration as we try our best to meet the needs of the communities we all serve!
Note: This does not guarantee donations.
Field Notes - Fundraising News
Discover the impact of your generosity in action. In this section, we highlight the people, partnerships, and projects that keep ScienceWorks thriving. From donor spotlights to behind-the-scenes updates on funded initiatives, Field Notes offers a window into how community support powers hands-on science, education, and resilience. See what your support makes possible.
