Newark Museum Explorers Program

In addition, students attend workshops focused on leadership training, public speaking, team-building, and museum-based art and science projects that promote STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) learning. Group trips to other institutions of culture and learning are another important part of the Explorers experience. Over their three to four-year tenure in the Program, participants must commit to spending six after-school hours per week in the program during the school year, in addition to 30 hours of community service per year, and 25 hours per week each summer. 

Since the Program began 22 years ago, more than 270 students have graduated from the Explorers Program. Over the past 10 years, 100% of students graduating from the Program attended institutions of higher education. In the summer of 2017, the Program began accepting students in their freshman year of high school.