Bay Area Discovery Museum

The Bay Area Discovery Museum will continue its mobile engineering lab program, which serves schools and libraries throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. The mobile engineering lab program delivers research-backed, hands-on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) learning experiences for pre-K through 5th-grade students that align with the Next Generation Science Standards. This work will directly respond to critical community needs created or exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, including mobile and socially distanced classrooms and access to STEM enrichment programs. During the 2021/2022 school year and summer, the museum will deliver 74 school programs of approximately three to four sessions each for 5,300 pre-K through 5th-grade students, along with 12 library and community programs for 1,200 children. The program will prioritize serving Title I schools and schools with the widest identified achievement gaps.