The Science Experience

Our primary goal is to raise awareness of advanced science, technology, engineering and mathematics principles to the people in our service area. The area is underserved and much of the population is low income (23% live below the poverty line) .

Our secondary goal is through the use of this type of informal learning we can have an impact on the quality of life for the over 4 million people (1 million of whom are children) who inhabit our service area (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties in CA).

Benjamin Franklin said; "Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn." We believe that providing an informal interactive learning experience will enhance the education of the area students and encourage them to stay in school, complete their high school education and continue on into either a two or four year institution.

We currently have the capacity to use outreach with our interactive and robotic exhibits and programs to engage students (and adults) in fun ways to learn concepts to which they are not otherwise exposed. When we occupy our initial building we will be able to present more advanced exhibits that will further excite the population that we serve. In addition we will be able to work more closely with local institutions of higher learning in providing teacher professional development.

Since our inception in September 2011, we have introduced technology, and scientific and engineering principles to about 60,000 school children. Most of these children had never seen many of the concepts we introduced, much less had the opportunity to interact with them. We have built trust with the educational community and have worked closely with educational institutions on grant proposals. We have won grants from NASA, Mitsubishi Motors of America, Union Pacific Foundation, Time Warner Cable, the San Bernardino Community College District, California State University at San Bernardino, and the University of California at Riverside. We helped the California State University at San Bernardino develop a grant request.