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Founded in 1993, Discovery Science Place's mission is "igniting curiosity in young minds through fun, hands-on exploration". We are a community supported children's science museum in Tyler, Texas serving the entire northeast Texas area and beyond.

Committed to inspiring curiosity through exploration, the Buffalo Museum of Science is a non-profit educational institution dedicated to providing relevant science programming and services to children, families, adults, and schools in the Buffalo Niagara region. Through exhibits and interactive science studios designed for multi-generational learning, the Museum showcases its extensive collections of over 700,000 specimens and artifacts representing all facets of the natural world with an emphasis on Western New York. Opened in 1929 in Buffalo’s Olmsted-designed Martin Luther King, Jr. Park, the Museum is currently installing eight permanent interactive science studios to transform its visitor experience by 2017. The Museum also operates Tifft Nature Preserve in South Buffalo, a 264-acre urban wetland preserve on reclaimed former industrial land. Learn more at www.sciencebuff.org.

Mission: Our mission is to inspire the innovator in everyone. Vision: Our vision is to become a resource for innovation.  

MISSION: Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose inspires creativity, curiosity and lifelong learning. VISION: Today’s children become tomorrow’s visionaries. VALUES: Children - We respect children and the adults who support them, striving to understand and respond to their individual developmental needs, learning styles and cultures. Play - We believe play is essential to healthy development and lifelong learning. Integrity - We create experiences rooted in authenticity, a spirit of discovery, and a commitment to excellence. Curiosity - We encourage wondering, asking questions, exploring and inventing. Intersections - We value multidisciplinary exploration, unexpected insights and new connections. Community - We celebrate people, cultures and discoveries, building global awareness and understanding. Learning - We believe that interactive engagement with ideas, materials, the environment, and technology promotes creativity, critical thinking, problem solving and growth.

The mission of Arizona Science Center is to inspire, educate and engage curious minds through science.

The Bakken Museum’s mission is to further the understanding of the history, cultural context and applications of electricity and magnetism in the life sciences and their benefits to contemporary society. Our ultimate goal is to inspire youth to pursue a life in science for the benefit of humanity.

Located in San Francisco, California, the Exploratorium is a public learning laboratory exploring the world through science, art, and human perception. Our mission is to create inquiry-based experiences that transform learning worldwide. Our vision is a world where people think for themselves and can confidently ask questions, question answers, and understand the world around them. We value lifelong learning and teaching, curiosity and inquiry, our community, iteration and evidence, integrity and authenticity, sustainability, and inclusion and respect.

The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History inspires a thirst for discovery and a passion for the natural world.

AWB's mission is to create novel international outreach programs that educate, inform and inspire. To do this, AWB offers programs that expands the minds of people of all ages, and opens up new worlds, and connects people around the globe from different cultures and societies, creating links between our wonderment of the Universe to the worlds of science, education, art and culture.

The IGFA is a nonprofit organization committed to the conservation of game fish and the promotion of responsible, ethical angling practices through science, education, rulemaking, record keeping, and recognition of outstanding accomplishments in the field of angling.

To interpret the natural world through research, education and exhibits; to promote understanding of the evolution and diversity of southern California and the peninsula of Baja California; and to inspire in all a respect for nature and the environment.

To provide bayfront sanctuaries connecting people with air plants of the world, native nature, and our regional history.