NNSS Outreach & Engagement | April – June 2024 spotlight

Year-round, NNSS employees make a difference in STEM education and community outreach. Learn more about our April to June 2024 highlights.

Sparking STEM and Community Care

By the numbers

$75,000+

Given to 11 organizations

422

NNSS volunteer hours by 65 employees

NNSS sponsorships

Las Vegas Science & Technology Festival | Giant Expo Sponsor
More than 9,000 members of the Southern Nevada community flocked to the World Market Center Saturday, May 4, featuring hands-on NNSS demonstrations, featuring infrared imaging, laser beams, high-speed cameras, electromagnets, Fire & Rescue robotics and 1950s Seagrave fire engine, a gas gun, fiber optics and more.

Project 150 | Scholarship Partner
The NNSS provided $5,000 in scholarship and $1,000 in gift card funding for 96 Project 150 scholarship program recipients. Project 150 provides resources to homeless, displaced and disadvantaged Southern Nevada students and empowers them to pursue higher education.

A page from an event program congratulates scholarship recipients and shows NNSS logo and media branding.

Event milestones

Volunteerism with DISCOVERY Children’s Museum
NNSS Student Programs interns volunteered their time to support preparation activities, including die cutting, sorting and packaging different materials, and cleaning, for the museum’s Independence Day and Superhero Day events.

Students stand behind a banner promoting STEM outreach
Students prepare craft supplies at a table

Las Vegas Science & Technology Festival | Science in Schools
NNSS science and technology leaders presented STEM activities in elementary schools across the Las Vegas valley as part of the Science in Schools initiative to engage the community’s youth.

STEM Saturdays
The NNSS wrapped its ever-popular STEM Saturdays series in April with a spotlight on industrial hygienists’ work to protect employees from health hazards. Presented by the NNSS, Clark County School District Career and Technical Education, and the Atomic Museum, STEM Saturdays feature presentations by NNSS subject matter experts who facilitate the connections between STEM and their chosen career path. Nearly 600 members of the community registered this season.

National Rebuilding Day and Month
As proud partner of Rebuilding Together Southern Nevada, which revitalizes the homes of veterans, seniors and individuals with disabilities by providing repairs at no cost to the homeowners, more than four dozen NNSS volunteers assembled in a Henderson, Nevada, neighborhood to provide critical renovations for a couple in need.

NNSS employees stand in front of a house with a sign that reads "We secure America's future."

In the classroom
From the College of Southern Nevada’s Empowering Women in Tech to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Science Day events, NNSS employees volunteered their times in classrooms to impart their best practices for a successful STEM career path.

A NNSS employee begins a presentation in a university classroom.
NNSS IT employees present to a classroom of women.

In the news

Interns in action! NNSS Student Programs volunteers give back to DISCOVERY Children’s Museum
NNSS serves as proud partner of Project 150 scholarship program
STEM Saturdays season unlocks career pathways for students
Hand in hand: NNSS volunteers revitalize home for local couple
VIDEO: Sparking STEM discoveries at the NNSS-sponsored Las Vegas Science & Technology Festival Giant Expo