Creative Learning Alliance July 2024 Newsletter

Full STEAM Ahead

Picking Up STEAM

The Creative Learning Alliance (CLA) is excited to recognize the success of their recent events and to invite the community to their upcoming activities! Read below for more details from their e-newsletter.

Thank you!

Thank you to W.R. Corley Memorial Trust for your generous grant!

Announcing the Schroeder Family Exploreum:

The cat is out of the bag! 300 S. Main, Joplin officially has a name. The Shroeder Family Exploreum will be a home for innovation, a center of creativity, a driver of curiosity, and a birthplace for the dream of becoming an engineer, a math teacher, an inventor, an astronaut, an architect, an urban planner, a doctor, a graphic designer… Thanks to the Schroeder family for their lead donation, Kathy Eck for the name, Anne McLaughlin for our gorgeous new logo, and Sign Designs for the banner!

In conjunction with the name announcement, CLA is pleased to announce the public phase of its capital campaign to develop the science center. Donate here.

Upcoming Events

Join CLA for their upcoming events, including:

  • August 15, Dog Days of Summer at Third Thursday
  • August 24 – Dinosaurs STEAMagination Exploration Lab, 1-2 pm
  • September 14 – George Washington Carver Prairie Day, 9 am – 3pm

Volunteers Needed!

Whether you have an hour or a day, whether it’s just your or a group, whether you have special skills in any of the tasks listed below or not, CLA has a space for you to volunteer in!

Current needs include:

  • Data entry
  • Engaging with families at events
  • Painting
  • Powerwashing
  • Small drywall repair

Have a group that would like to volunteer? Contact Neely at 417.850.7137.

About The Creative Learning Alliance: 

The Creative Learning Alliance is a hands-on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics) based attraction that exercises curiosity, promotes exploration, and develops imagination for people of all ages through interactivity. The nonprofit is run by a volunteer board of directors working to develop a new science center for the region. Find the Creative Learning Alliance at CreativeLearningAlliance.org or on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok @creativelearningalliance.

Reference:

Neely Myers, Executive Director
Creative Learning Alliance
417.850.7137

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