Hunter
12/27/22
The Iowa Children’s Museum has received a grant from the Bayer Fund to support their Storytime Stem program.
The Gazette reports that the program reaches out to first-graders in rural school districts with hands-on, experimental learning opportunities.
The grant was awarded earlier this month, and comes from the Bayer Fund, a non-profit that works to assist families in underfunded communities.
STEM education focuses on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.
Jeff Capps is executive director at the Children’s Museum. He tells the Gazette that the funds will provide new coding robots and supplies for a computer science activity for the first-graders that brings a fairy tale to life.
The Bayer Fund has granted over $75 million to charitable and nonprofit organizations over the past five years. The Children’s Museum, in Coral Ridge Mall, features exhibits on a wide range of interactive subjects and is open Tuesdays through Sundays from 10am to 6pm. They will be closing at 4 on New Year’s Eve.