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By supporting Founder’s Day, you’re investing in STEM education, family engagement, and community enrichment. Your sponsorship helps provide bounce houses, face painting, STEM activity stations, and FREE Museum access from 10:00 am – 2:00 pm, encouraging lifelong learning in science and discovery! Together, we can make Founder’s Day a celebration to remember and inspire the next generation of scientists, engineers, and innovators!
SPONSORSHIPS GOOD FOR 2026 ONLY.
Your sponsorship supports not only Founder’s Day, but also the ongoing success of Discovery Science Place. Any unused funds will be directed to our operating account, helping to enhance exhibits and create new hands-on experiences that inspire curiosity
and learning in young minds.
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Altra
Kelly Community Credit Union
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Diane Kavanaugh
Dairy Queen
Put your name behind discovery every day.
Connect your organization to a hands-on learning experience that thousands of children interact with throughout the year.
Sponsorship Includes:
Exhibit-area logo placement
Discovery Circle recognition
Select social-media recognition
For more than thirty years, Discovery Science Place has been where East Texas children come to wonder, explore, build, imagine, and discover. Teachers trust it. Generations of families know it. More than 72,500 people walk through the doors each year — including about 10,000 students on field trips from 80+ schools across 23 counties.
Children today grow up in a world full of screens. They need a place where they do more than watch. They need to touch, build, experiment, pretend, solve problems, work together, and sometimes knock something down and start over. That is what happens here. At Discovery Science Place, children do not simply watch science. They do science. Play becomes learning. Curiosity becomes discovery. An ordinary afternoon can be the start of a lifelong interest in how the world works.
Tyler is already investing in that future — new school facilities, the CTC, an expanding TJC campus, the medical school at UT Tyler. Discovery Science Place belongs in that story. A STEM Sponsor puts a company’s name and resources behind the hands-on work those students walk into: exhibits, programs, and field trips that make science something they try, not something they only hear about.
Your name and logo are in front of that audience all year — at all five events, in print, on the website, on social media, and on Discovery Circle / kiosk displays inside the museum.
What you’re supporting:
– Night at the Museum — Signature fundraising event
– Founders Day — 1400+ people come for free to enjoy our museum and STEM friends
– Educators Open House — Free for up to 150 local teachers to fellowship, food, professional development hours and experience DSP
– Halloween Spooktacular
– Holiday at Discovery
– Saturday Science Lab
What you receive:
– In-museum recognition on Kiosks and Discovery Circle
– Family night at the museum (only 7 available) and 4 signature event tickets or 25 guest passes and 4 signature event tickets.
– A simple year-end note on student and visitor reach
– Name and Logo at all five events