In 1993, the Academy initiated the Community And Urban Science Enrichment Program (CAUSE) through initial funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The program is designed to address the needs to achieve greater participation of under represented minorities in the science and education workforce and to provide quality science education through early intervention to underserved youth K-12. (Read More)
The National Science Foundation has provided significant funding for initiatives in informal science education to the New Jersey Academy for Aquatic Sciences in collaboration with the three other major science museums in the Greater Philadelphia region - the Franklin Institute, the Academy of Natural Sciences, and the Philadelphia Zoo. (Read More)
The New Jersey Academy of Aquatic Sciences - together with the Philadelphia Zoo, The Franklin Institute, and the Academy of Natural Sciences - has launched Families Exploring Science Together (FEST), a family-based science education program targeted to underserved children and their parents. (Read More)
Community Ambassadors in Science Exploration (CASE) is the newest program of PISEC (Philadelphia/Camden Informal Science Education Collaborative), which has a ten-year history of museum-community collaboration. (Read More)
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