Science Kids

“Expenses marketing 2,268 office 880 board mtg, training, recruit 919 course supplies 10,397 travel 125 insurance 2,169 state fees 25 science bus costs 6,269 rent 75 total 23,127”

“Equipment 5,673 5,673 less accumulated depreciation 5,673 5,673 total 0 0”

“PAYROLL LIABILITY 0 606”

“Overview of science kids: science kids is a nonprofit with a hub in sheridan, wy, and a satellite campus in cody, wy. Established in 2009, we are in our 14th year of operation. Our mission is to "get kids outside, where great learning happens," with the ultimate hope to encourage curiosity and life-long connections to science. In 2022, the core of science kids remained the same - to offer vibrant classes within the sciences to children ages 6-12 from the sheridan and cody campuses. Our eye was on smart offerings that maximize staff and equipment resources, and provided high-quality learning opportunities to our communities. We also actively increased the number of scholarships we could offer to children who would most benefit from that support. In addition to summertime classes for children, we offer our communities free, family-friendly, science-learning events, often in partnership with other nonprofits and organizations like the brinton museum ("things that go bump in the night"), sheridan community land trust ("unplug" programs), sheridan college ("science saturday" events), and the university of wyoming biodiversity institute ("bat walks"). To accomplish this work, we focused on continued and thoughtful board development, as well as training new board members and building a sense of community within science kids. Financially, science kids continues to strive to meet our fundraising goal of a full-year's worth of operating costs saved by year end. We seek stability and longevity, with enough funds available to respond to challenges and limitations and still meet our goal of offering learning opportunities to our community. In 2022, we called on each campus to turn to their local and regional communities for fundraising opportunities, and we looked regionally and nationally for granting agencies to support our mission. Summer classes are our core: in 2022, both campuses offered a full slate of classes for 6-12 year old children. Demand for classes was high, as it has been in past years, especially for 6-8 year old children. Registrations on both campuses were fast and furious, with "creeks and critters" on the sheridan campus selling out in 8 minutes time, and the waitlist for "hands-on nature" was 31 families long. Our community is eager to take part in science kids classes. Science kids also partnered with the park county school district 6 in cody, wy to offer classes in the sciences to students free of charge. The initiative included classes for children ages 6 to 13 in various classes, serving 128 students free of charge. Our greatest limitations to expansion of summer classes are funding, staffing, and transportation to high-quality outdoor settings with a single, 15-passenger bus for each campus. Those two buses are models from 1995 and 1999, and we care for them vigorously to be sure they are in good working order. Nature wy: an educational online series that reaches across the state and beyond with support from the david b. Jones foundation, we continued to reach digitally across wyoming with nature wy, through our partnership with wyoming pbs. In the summer of 2022, we filmed an additional 6 episodes of nature wy, capturing what science kids does in our summertime classes in short-format videos. Each video is accompanied by full lesson plans for educators and activity guides for caregivers that bring nature wy to life. And the series is nationally award-winning with a public media award for "educational resources for the classroom". The award substantiates what we do as an education-focused nonprofit getting kids outside learning in the sciences. Www.wyomingpbs.org/naturewy community science-learning events: science saturday: science kids, in partnership with wyoming pbs and sheridan college, hosted a special event celebrating wnet's 40th birthday for the nature series, and their commemorative film my garden of a thousand bees (https://www.mygardenofathousandbees.com/). On may 21st, science kids and our partners: 1”