Boeing is committed to supporting early education programs in our community and KidsQuest Children’s Museum received $25K from The Boeing Company Charitable Trust to do just that. This grant supports KidsQuest’s early education programs Discovery Tots Ready, Set Learn, First Experiences and Open Discovery Time, which provide essential early learning education and school-readiness preparation for children age birth to five years.

The funding from The Boeing Company Charitable Trust also launches a unique collaboration between four children’s museums – KidsQuest Children’s Museum in Bellevue, The Children’s Museum of Tacoma, Imagine Children’s Museum in Everett and The Portland Children’s Museum. By using common assessment tools, these museums will identify and recommend a series of best practices for institutions wishing to implement similar early education programs. According to the National Association of Children’s Museums, this is the first partnership of its kind in the United States.

KidsQuest is truly grateful for The Boeing Company Charitable Trust’s continued support of our local children’s museums. The early years of childhood are critical and lay the foundation for future academic success. Creative activities encourage young children to stretch their imaginations, engage in creative problem solving and express themselves artistically. This hard wires their brains for future learning and invites children to learn how to learn. We are proud to have The Boeing Company Charitable Trust as a partner in this fantastic collaboration that will enable us to evaluate our impact on the children in our community.

KidsQuest provides a unique opportunity for the growing number of young families located in East King County to explore, play and learn together in a non-commercial environment. KidsQuest Children’s Museum is a non-profit children’s museum that creates learning through the power of play and exploration that connects children to their communities and the world.