By NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The focus for Giving Tuesday for Cosmosphere is scholarships for Cosmosphere Camps.
"There are students all across the United States and this year, the world, we have some international students who have already registered to come to our summer camps," Mimi Meredith said. "They won't all be able to do it without scholarship assistance."
Cosmosphere really had to help last year to get kids to camps.
"We have depleted all of our scholarship funds, which is a little bit disconcerting to me," Meridith said. "I don't want to turn anyone away, but last year, as you can probably imagine, it was a big need. Lots of parents were off of work due to the pandemic and they wouldn't have been able to get their kiddos to camp, had it not been for the benevolence of our scholarship donors."
Cosmosphere Camps show the hands on reasons behind the schoolwork that kids are doing.
"It makes everything that they are learning in school relevant," Meredith said. "All of those STEM subjects, they can see how it all fits together. Even more, we work on applying all of the sixteen career pathways identified by the Kansas Department of Education in our camps, so they can be exposed to a lot of different career opportunities."
To give, go to cosmo.org/get-involved/giving and scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the drop down menu and select Scholarships.