Founded | 2017[1] |
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Founder | Sarah McAnulty[2] |
Purpose | Nonformal learning |
Region | International, through the Internet |
Key people | Sarah McAnulty, Executive Director[3] |
Staff | 3[4] |
Volunteers | 1,000+ |
Website | www |
Skype a Scientist is a nonprofit educational organization based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,[5] that enables scientists to video conference with students in classrooms. It began as an informal program in 2017, founded by Sarah McAnulty while she was a graduate student at the University of Connecticut. As of 2019, almost 15,000 classrooms and over 7,000 scientists from a total of 43 countries had participated in video conferencing sessions.