Discovery Museum Gets $75,000 Google Grant

The grant will fund free field trips for low-income K-8 students and expand STEM programming in Las Vegas.

Updated on Nov. 10, 2026 in Scholarships

Discovery Museum Gets $75,000 Google Grant

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Discovery Children's Museum received a $75,000 grant from Google to fund free field trips for K-8 students and expanded STEM programming. The funding expands hands-on STEM education for children and families across Southern Nevada.

Why it matters

Transportation and admission fees create severe equity barriers for local Title I schools, and the grant aims to reduce those barriers. The subsidy targets students who would otherwise be unable to access the museum's programs.

The $75,000 grant covers admission and classroom resources for about 5,500 low-income K-8 students, while school field trip demand rose 64% from 2023 to 2025 as overall museum visitation fell 10%. Whether the subsidy will reverse the visitation decline has not been stated.

The players

Google

Google is the technology company whose grant funds the museum's free field trips and STEM programming.

Discovery Children's Museum

Discovery Children's Museum is a hands-on science and children's museum in Las Vegas that receives the grant and runs the programs.

The details

The museum provides free admission and classroom resources to eligible K-8 students, and expanded National Robotics Week programming offers coding, drone piloting, demonstrations and interactive challenges. The grant also supports Discovery Girls in STEM Day, which gave about 600 girls and community participants free admission and mentorship.

2023 to 2025: School field trip demand rose 64% while visitation fell 10%.
2025: The Google-museum partnership supported robotics and STEM programming.
2026: Discovery Girls in STEM Day provided free admission and mentorship.
November 10, 2026: The museum announced the $75,000 Google grant.

Legacy Partnership

The 2026 grant extends the Google-museum robotics and STEM partnership that supported programming in 2025 into a subsidized field-trip program for low-income students. It builds on that earlier collaboration by targeting access barriers rather than exhibit content.

Families of eligible K-8 students in Las Vegas may gain free museum admission and classroom resources through the subsidized field-trip program. Students at Title I schools face fewer transportation and admission barriers to hands-on STEM learning.

The takeaway

Removing cost barriers to field trips can open hands-on STEM learning to students who would otherwise be left out. Local families should check with their school about eligibility for free museum visits.