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-first 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 862 school districts 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 27 million annual visitors to our Web site.
Past honorees and leadership include Carol Bartz, William K. Bowes, Jr., Craig Barrett, Charles Geschke and John Warnock, Pierre Omidyar, George Rathmann, Gordon Moore, Bill Hewlett, Jim Clark, and Andrew Grove.
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The Exploratorium's 31st Annual Awards Dinner will be held on Wednesday, May 14, 2008. This year we're delighted to honor Dr. William J. Rutter with the prestigious Director's Award, Dr. Donald Kennedy with the Public Understanding of Science Award, and The George Lucas Educational Foundation with the Outstanding Educator Award.
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Past Awards Dinners
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