Each spring at its Annual Awards Dinner, the Exploratorium celebrates great achievements in science, art, and technology by honoring special individuals chosen by their peers for their groundbreaking accomplishments, discoveries, or theories. Now in its thirty-second year, the Dinner is the Bay Area’s premier event in its realm, referred to as the "Oscar Night of Science."
The Awards Dinner, which annually raises over $1 million, is also the Exploratorium’s major fundraising event, enabling the museum to continue its prodigious work. Funds generously provided through the Dinner allow us to develop and maintain the 650+ educational exhibits that are the heart of educational programming for training teachers in the greater Bay Area as well as in 47 states. The funds also enable us to reach out to underserved audiences in the community, and to make science content easily understandable and freely available to the 28 million annual visitors to our Web site.
Save the Date!
This year's Awards Dinner, Women in Science: Inspiring Women in the Field, will be on Monday, May 18, 2009. We hope you will join us as we celebrate the tremendous accomplishments of our honorees: Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson, the first woman president of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden; computer scientist, IBM Fellow and recipient of the Turing Award Frances Allen; Red Burns, Arts professor and Chair of the Interactive Telecommunications Program in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University; Google Vice President and computer engineer Marissa Mayer; and Helen Quinn, particle physicist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
Questions? Contact Adrienne Moon at 415-353-0424.
Past Awards Dinners
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