NAVIGATING A NEW AGE OF DISCOVERY
SKILLS FOR A RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD
A Letter From the President & CEO
At The Tech, we teach STEM, but more importantly, we teach curiosity, creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking. We teach the mindsets that help people navigate an era of accelerating change. Our design challenges, global education programs, and focus on emerging technologies like AI spark the problem-solving skills that shape a better future.
Our region sits at the epicenter of the tech industry that generation after generation changes the reality of our lives. When The Tech was founded in 1988, the personal computer was revolutionizing the world.
Today, artificial intelligence is reshaping how we learn, work, and create. As technology evolves, The Tech remains a trusted space for our community to explore these changes and a beacon to the world, championing the unique combination of skills and mindsets needed for the future.
Here at home, The Tech launched AI literacy programs, hosted National AI Literacy Day for the second year, and opened new galleries like AI Sandbox, Dream Garden, and Pixel Playground, where visitors can explore emerging technologies hands-on. That same spirit of curiosity and collaboration drives our signature program, The Tech Challenge, which expanded significantly this year, engaging 7,000 students globally in solving complex design problems through teamwork and ingenuity. Across all programs, The Tech reached more than 2 million learners worldwide
These achievements reflect a shared belief that technology should serve people. The Tech ensures that students, educators, and families, especially those from underrepresented communities, see themselves as builders of the future, not bystanders to it. In an age of noise and uncertainty, science centers like The Tech remain among the most trusted public institutions. They are places where complexity is met with curiosity, respect, and truth.
The challenges ahead, AI, climate change, misinformation, are immense. Yet The Tech’s history shows that when people come together to learn and imagine, solutions emerge. The collaborative spirit that built Silicon Valley continues to thrive here.
Katrina Stevens is the President & CEO of The Tech, where she is dedicated to creating inspiring and impactful learning experiences for young people around the world. She is the first educator and first woman to lead The Tech.
Matthew Sapp is an Assurance Partner at Ernst and Young and has eleven years of experience with The Tech as the Board Vice Chair, Chair-elect, and service on the Executive and Finance committee.
14,067 Museums for All Visits
2,000,000 Students Reached Worldwide
46 The Tech Academies Fellows
323,905 Visits to The Tech Interactive
8,666 Tech Challenge Participants in North America and Kenya
73,155 Student Field Trip Participants
284 Volunteers
100+ Interactive Exhibits
2,920 Member Households
19,756 Volunteer Service Hours
THE TECH INTERACTIVE
The Year of AI for Good
FY25 marked The Tech’s official Year of AI for Good. This theme resonated across the Interactive, from new exhibits and curriculum to community programs designed to inspire conversations about the role of science and technology in a changing world. The year was book-ended by a new exhibit about our annual Tech for Global Good Laureates and the 2025 Global Humanitarian Dr. Fei-Fei Li, whose work exemplifies how humancentered AI can advance knowledge, empathy, and global well-being.
NEW GALLERIES: AI, IMAGINATION,
AND INCLUSION
Dream Garden
Opened in spring 2025, Dream Garden invites visitors to explore how artificial intelligence can enhance creativity and sensory engagement. The immersive installation uses computer vision and responsive design to allow guests to interact using movements of all kind; even head and mouth movements. These innovative additions allow those with mobility challenges to engage with the exhibit.
Visitors have described Dream Garden as both inspiring and calming: a space where technology, art, and mindfulness converge. The gallery also models a design philosophy that The Tech will carry forward — creating interactive experiences that are accessible, inclusive, and joyful for every visitor.
AI Sandbox
Adjacent to Dream Garden, the AI Sandbox demystifies artificial intelligence and invites dialogue about its possibilities and ethical implications. Through interactive exhibits like Transformirror and Pose Detection, visitors unpack how AI systems see, learn, and make decisions. This gallery is a space where new AI ideas, art and technology will engage audiences in the future.
Pixel Playground
Pixel Playground celebrates creativity and technology. Guests design roller coasters, experiment with physics in a playful way, create generative art in Wave Atlas, and use AI to identify animals they have built in Animaker. Together, these experiences remind visitors that innovation begins with curiosity and play.
INNOVATION IN LEARNING EXPERIENCES
Bridgetopia
In July 2024, The Tech launched Bridgetopia, a new Tech Studio experience where young engineers designed, built, and tested bridges. By year’s end, 23,878 participants had become bridge builders, learning the principles of tension, compression, and teamwork.
Mushroom Bricks
In March 2025, our most popular BioTinkering Lab experience invited visitors to grow and shape their own biodegradable building materials. With expanded options for species selection and openended design, the new iteration engaged 6,421 guests in sustainable innovation in FY25.
STEM Tour: Taking The Tech on the Road
The Tech’s education team launched its first-ever STEM Tour, bringing portable exhibits and activities to three elementary schools in East San José. Every student on each campus participated — an outreach milestone that extended The Tech’s impact directly into the community.
FIELD TRIPS & FACILITATED EXPERIENCES
Learning by Doing, Together
Field trips and facilitated experiences are central to The Tech’s mission — helping students and teachers spark curiosity, deepen understanding, and make STEM learning tangible. Students don’t just watch — they design, test, and iterate.
FIELD TRIPS BY THE NUMBERS
73,155
Field Trip Participants
50%
Field Trips from Title I Schools
43 Workshops 760 Science Labs
21,103 Students served through Science Labs
2024-25 JAMES C. MORGAN GLOBAL
HUMANITARIAN
Presented by Applied Materials
Dr. Fei-Fei Li
Founding Co-Director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) SIGNATURE PROGRAM
TECH FOR GLOBAL GOOD
Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to
Benefit Humanity
Each year, The Tech Interactive gathers leaders from science, technology, philanthropy, and education to recognize five honorees who demonstrate how technology is being used to benefit humanity. In fiscal year 2025, with the theme of AI for Good, The Tech honored four laureates and one Global Humanitarian whose work shows how AI can advance equity, well-being, and sustainability.
The Tech integrates the laureates’ work into exhibits, field-trip labs, and digital resources, giving students hands-on experience with ethical design, and critical thinking.
2024-25 TECH FOR GLOBAL GOOD LAUREATES
farm-ng
Revolutionizing farming with robotics
FLAIR (First Languages AI Reality)
Preserving Indigenous languages through AI
Presented by The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Earth Species Project
Decoding animal communication with machine learning
Presented by Judy & Erica Swanson
Karya
Creating pathways out of poverty through ethical data and AI
Presented by NetApp
SIGNATURE PROGRAM
THE TECH CHALLENGE
Engineering Confidence, One Team at a Time
Now entering its 39th year as the signature program of The Tech, The Tech Challenge is an annual engineering design challenge for students in Grades 4-12, with a focus on building STEM confidence, particularly in girls and groups that are underrepresented in STEM fields. The Tech Challenge takes place over two continents, with challenges happening in San Jose (California), Nakuru (Kenya), and Kisumu (Kenya).
Developing problem-solvers and learning from failure
The Tech Challenge is the foundation of our Design Challenge Learning methodology at The Tech. Teams spend months deeply engaged in the engineering design process, working to solve each year’s realworld problem. Teams document every step of their journey including testing, brainstorming, and most importantly, what they learn through experimentation and iteration. The program culminates in an inspiring showcase where teams put their final solutions to the test in front of a live audience.
The future: local, national and global
Design Challenge Learning lesson plans shared via our website reached an estimated 568,000 students this past year. Our goal is to continue to expand The Tech Challenge beyond our in-person events, so that every year millions of people can use materials produced by The Tech to develop their problem-solving skills.
THE TECH CHALLENGE BY THE NUMBERS
38 Years 44,000 Participants
CHALLENGE LOCATIONS
San Jose, California
Nakuru & Kisumu, Kenya
NORTH AMERICA
3,998 Students
46% Girls, Young Women, or Nonbinary
37%
Teams from Title I Schools
LESSONS FROM A LIFETIME OF CHALLENGES
A Letter from Greg Brown, Tech Challenge Founder and The Tech Board Member
The Tech Challenge started in 1988, two years before we opened a prototype museum called “The Garage.” The inspiration came from the unforgettable design challenge experiences I had as an engineering student at Stanford. The idea was simple and a little audacious: What if young kids got to tackle the same challenges I worked on in college?
From the beginning, we focused on four things: creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration. And here’s the key — it’s a challenge, not a competition. It’s never been about beating someone else. It’s about solving real-world problems as a team.
Team-work matters. Especially here in Silicon Valley, where students and parents are often focused on test performance and grades. The Challenge gives kids a chance to take on something hard without the pressure of working alone or getting right on the first try. It’s an invitation to try, fail, learn, and try again.
We design each challenge to seem deceptively simple. Can you make an object fly from here to there? Sounds easy, right? But the moment kids test their first idea, they hit a wall (sometimes a real wall) — and that’s when the insights come. They immediately think of ways to improve their design. That is the essence of Design Challenge Learning — a skill successful people apply every day in all aspects of life.
A vital part of The Tech Challenge program is to bring a prototype device to one of our Test Trials. Long before Showcase Day, teams try out their latest designs on our test rigs. Our staff and volunteers point out “flashes of brilliance” in every test, and encourage every team to keep up the good work.
After 39 years, the students still amaze me. Their in-born creativity and natural desire to collaborate are alive and well. Unlike adults, who strive to never make mistakes, children working in teams are surprisingly willing to learn from failure and keep going.
Greg Brown is one of the founders of The Tech Challenge and a member of The Tech’s Board of Directors.
A heartfelt thank you to the individuals, companies, and institutions that support the Tech Challenge by volunteering! From early preparations to Showcase Weekend, this event simply wouldn’t be possible without the dedication of our hundreds of volunteers.
THE TECH CHALLENGE: KENYA
Every Teacher Empowered, Every Child Inspired
The Tech Challenge: Kenya is a bold evolution of The Tech Interactive’s signature engineering design program. In a strategic departure from its North American counterpart, which centers on student teams, the Kenya model begins with teachers, training them to integrate design challenge learning directly into their classrooms.
Aligned with Kenya’s national Competency-Based Curriculum, the program complements traditional styles of teaching knowledge mastery with new opportunities for creativity, collaboration, and hands-on problem-solving. The curriculum catalyzes science learning and innovation in the classroom by introducing the engineering design mindset, which encourages experimenting, iterating, and learning through discovery.
Building a Framework for Scalable Impact
Teacher Training and Certification
Through live and asynchronous Design Challenge Learning (DCL) courses, teachers earn certifications while learning to facilitate inquiry-based instruction. The “Trainer of Trainers” (TOT) model allows educators to return to their schools as mentors, multiplying the program’s reach.
Student Innovation and Team Challenges
Each year, students and teachers collaborate on local engineering challenges that culminate in a public showcase.
KENYA
4,668 Students
47% Girls or Young Women
19,348 Kenyan Educators Trained
1,200+ Schools Reached Through the TOT model
THE BOWERS EDUCATION INSTITUTE
Expanding Educator Leadership and Innovation
Named for visionary philanthropist Ann Bowers, The Bowers Education Institute is the professional-learning hub of The Tech Interactive. The Institute supports teachers and expanded-learning educators in bringing engineering practices into their classrooms through design challenge learning and computational thinking training.
In FY25, The Tech began restructuring the Institute to fully leverage Ann Bowers’ transformative legacy gift and extend its reach beyond Silicon Valley. After more than a decade of deep engagement across the South Bay, The Tech Academies program reached a milestone of high saturation within local partner districts. This year marked the start of a new phase: preparing to scale The Tech’s model of educator training across California and into new communities.
A Year of Collaboration and Creativity
The annual Tech Academies Summer Institute continued to be a highlight of the year: an energetic showcase of educator creativity and collaboration. Guided by five alumni coaches, Fellows designed and tested six new hands-on activities, drawing on feedback from peers and subject-matter experts. Each Fellow also developed a custom STEM project to implement in the 2025–2026 school year, ensuring that student learning remains rooted in real-world relevance and discovery.
NATIONAL AI LITERACY DAY
Building a National Movement for Responsible AI Learning
On March 28, 2025, more than 100 organizations — including The Tech Interactive, aiEDU, Digital Promise, and InnovateEDU — joined together for the second annual National AI Literacy Day, a nationwide initiative designed to ensure that every learner, educator, and community has access to the knowledge and tools needed to understand artificial intelligence and its impact on society.
As one of the four organizations on the national steering committee, The Tech Interactive hosted the San José Educator Summit and Family Day, which combined interactive AI exhibits with hands-on teacher workshops and student demonstrations.
Looking Ahead
National AI Literacy Day 2026 will expand the national network of partner events, and launch a hub of curated resources for educators, parents, and communities.
122 Partner Organizations
86 Events Nationwide
44,000 Website Visits AI LITERACY DAY
FY25 FINANCIALS Revenue
Fiscal year is July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025
The beginning and ending balances for The Tech’s endowment were $24.8 million and $25.4 million respectively. The Tech maintains an operating reserve fund that is used for expenses, when circumstances occur such as unexpected lower earned or contributed revenue, new expenses, or to manage cash flow. The endowment draw was $1.7 million.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Mala Anand Microsoft
Gloria Chen Adobe Systems, Inc.
Juan Cruz Franklin-Mckinley School District
James Deichen Suntrust Robinson Humphrey (Ret.)
Christopher S. Digiorgio Accenture (Ret.)
Carl Eschenbach Workday
Sabrina Farmer Gitlab
Aymeric Gisselbrecht Tsavorite Scalable Intelligence
Shikoh Gitau Qhala
Raquel Gonzalez Bank Of America
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Shannon Hunt-Scott The Scott Foundation
Priya Kannan, Ph.D. Lucas College & Graduate School of Business, San Jose State University
Joe Kava Google
Tina Knauss Treasurer, Knauss Consulting LLC Chair, Finance Committee
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Patrick McGovern
Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Lisa Millora San Francisco Bay University Chair, Development Committee
Jody Mortimore KPMG
Omkaram (Om) Nalamasu, Ph.D. Applied Materials
Janine Pelosi Neat
Daniel Perez Reconext
Matthew Sapp EY Vice-Chair, Chair-Elect
Katrina Stevens President & CEO The Tech Interactive
Ken Washington, Ph.D. Medtronic
Sean White, Ph.D. Inflection AI
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Our volunteers are a community of passionate STEM advocates including students, retirees, engineers, artists, educators, and corporate teams that serve as exhibit guides, lab assistants, community ambassadors, and event volunteers, including:
Techtastic Outreach Team Members work with historically marginalized groups with traditionally limited access to STEM educational opportunities at offsite events.
The Tech Challenge Volunteers help in many roles to make our signature design challenge possible.
Done-in-a-Day Corporate Volunteers from corporate partners like PonyAI, Hitachi, SEER, Morgan Stanley, Samsung, SCIEX, EY, and Adobe contribute hundreds of hours of service during Done-in-a-Day opportunities.
CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIPS
Join companies and foundations that share our belief in technology for good. Partnerships may include sponsorships, matching gifts, and custom engagement opportunities that align with your mission.
LEGACY AND PLANNED GIVING
Join the Tech Legacy Society by including The Tech in your estate plans. Planned gifts help secure the future of STEM education in Silicon Valley and beyond.
GIFTS OF STOCK OR SECURITIES
Contribute appreciated assets to maximize your impact and potential tax benefits.
MEMBERSHIP
Membership is more than admission — it’s belonging. Members enjoy free admission, early access to exhibitions, and invitations to special events while directly supporting programs that inspire the next generation of innovators.
Learn more at thetech.org/membership