Fab Lab Unlocks Barancik Foundation Match

The Giving Coast

Pictured: Fruitville Elementary teacher Leah Pollard-Lane uses Lending Library kits in her classroom. Provided photo.

The Suncoast Science Center/Faulhaber Fab Lab has successfully met a fundraising challenge from Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation, unlocking a full $450,000 grant to support a three-year expansion of its Science Lending Library: a program that provides free, hands-on STEM kits to local classrooms and homeschool families. To learn more, visit www.suncoastscience.org

Pictured: Fruitville Elementary teacher Leah Pollard-Lane uses Lending Library kits in her classroom. Provided photo.

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