Program areas at Seattle Universal Math Museum
SUMM continued to develop, collaborate on and participate in multiple free math community outreach programs and activities to promote positive experiences, engaging with our local and broader communities. Expenses include staff, consultants, advertising and promotion, conferences, travel and association memberships to further our mission, and support the organization to provide creative, dynamic and research-supported math education programming. Grant for $10,000 included for support for our future educational outreach van.
SUMM continued to develop potential prototype exhibits to be included in future programming and exhibit spaces, including future travel to schools, libraries, and community centers in our local communities. These prototype exhibits demonstrate our dedication to immersive and interactive math experiences, and may be further developed into more permanent exhibits at our future museum space. Staff, consultants and various project expenses are included in this fiscal year's expenses, and funding came from a $125,000 grant in a previous year.
SUMM continued with multiple math education programming in partnership with multiple organizations, schools, libraries, community centers and other museums to facilitate learning math in a fun, hands-on way for all ages of participants. In FY24 we hosted more than two hundred events and reached over ten thousand participants at various sites, many with partner organizations. We received grants and donations to cover about 70% of expenses, and 75% of our events were held in "communities of opportunity" with highly diverse populations.
Studio Infinity started three projects in the latter half of the fiscal year, sponsored by Seattle Universal Math Museum, and following the mission to spark each and every person to love math. Projects were displayed in diverse venues around the United States.