The Exploration Place to offer free programs for northern schools
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PRINCE GEORGE — Thanks to an $80,000 grant from the Drax Foundation, The Exploration Place will offer free school visits and programs for northern B.C. elementary, secondary and post-secondary schools in the 2023-2024 school year.
Funds from the Drax Foundation’s first round of granting, with the goal of supporting education and skills development in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM), as well as improving green spaces, enhancing biodiversity, and supporting Indigenous communities, will be used over the next two years to update, redesign, and expand the Museum’s school programs in collaboration with staff experts, teachers, and post-secondary educators. In this first year, it will also support the removal of financial barriers that can be challenging for teachers.
The result will be updated, curriculum-linked programs, increased outreach to classrooms and visiting classes, and an expansion of travelling programs to classrooms in the North over the next three years.
The Exploration Place is one of three organizations chosen in Canada to be beneficiaries of a total of $150,000 in grant funding from the Drax Foundation.
