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Type | 501c3 public charity |
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Founded | 2001 |
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Staff | Ken Hess, Founder and President |
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Headquarters | Milpitas, California |
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Members | 12 million K-12 student and teacher visitors |
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Website | www.sciencebuddies.org |
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Science Buddies, formerly the Kenneth Lafferty Hess Family Charitable Foundation, is a non-profit organization that provides a website of free science project productivity tools and mentoring to support K-12 students, especially for science fairs. Founded in 2001 by engineer and high-tech businessman, Kenneth Hess, Science Buddies features STEM content and services to assist students and educators. Since its founding, it has expanded its original mission to provide teacher resources targeted for classroom and science fair use.