>> I think what I love about it is the impact that we make on a day-to-day basis.
The Institute is an educational institution.
We serve almost 300,000 schoolkids a year, both with actual visits to the institute
and some of our special programs.
We serve another 200,000 students with vehicles
on the road doing science programming from Virginia to Connecticut.
We also have programs in Egypt in which we're helping to build STEM schools in Egypt, science,
technology, engineering and math schools.
So really making an impact as an educational institution.
We're also helping with teacher professional development.
We have a magnet high school in Philadelphia that has emerged as one
of the top public high schools in the Commonwealth as well.
So really, that educational stint is great.
Additionally, yeah, I think without a doubt in this environment, funding is always an issue.
The Institute revenue, earned revenue is a big part of what we do and we try to diversify that,
but also we're very fortunate to have generous contributions from individuals, corporations
and foundations and, and there is no doubt though that trying to do that mission
in this economy and in this environment is always difficult to do.
Also, I think the fact that science, technology, engineering and math is just so important,
that there are jobs out there and we need to reach as many people as we can, both children
and adults and, and help them understand that and help them get interested in the science
and technology that are out there.
I would also say one of the continuing challenges we have as, as, as universities
and other have is government funding continuing to drop and how we adjust to that.