The Tech Museum of Innovation

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2009 to Jun 30, 2010

Signed

Apr 20, 2011

Return Version

2009v1.7

Gross Receipts

$15,666,814

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

The Tech Museum offers an array of standards-based science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education programs, including labs, summer camps, bilingual weekend workshops, after-school programs, and The Tech Challenge program. Making up The Tech Museum's Year-Round Second Classroom, our labs, camps, workshops, and programs are aligned with California's STEM education standards. They also use design challenge learning strategies, whereby students explore real-world problems in depth, and then work together in teams that follow scientific and engineering methods to prototype solutions. The Tech Challenge likewise offers design challenge learning that complies with California STEM standards. This signature program invites teams of students in grades 5-12 to design, build, document, test, and present a solution to a real-world problem. For the past 24 years, The Tech Challenge has reached out to different ethnic and socioeconomic communities to introduce students not only to STEM concepts, but also to the thrill of hands-on learning and real-world design.

Activity 3

The Tech Museum's staff and volunteers welcome over 500,000 visitors annually and provide multilingual interpretation services for the permanent galleries and traveling exhibits. They also assist visitors with ticketing, choosing programs, and assessing educational opportunities such as IMAX film presentations. More than 15,000 members help support the museum, including more than 5,000 local educators. The Membership Department hosts more than 200 birthday parties and community celebrations annually. Additionally, the Special Events team hosts more than 200 corporate receptions, events, and parties. Because of support from a local sponsor, The Tech Museum offers free admission on the second Sunday of each month.

Filer

EIN

94-2864660