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Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation
Mad Science and the Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation understand that when a child has a chronic or life-threatening medical condition, a family's life as they know it comes to a halt. To brighten their lives, a little each day, Mad Science is teaming up with Starlight to benefit children in your community.
Mad Science hosts Hospital Happenings™ events and Great Escapes™ activities, two signature Starlight programs that crete recreational diversions for seriously ill children both in and out of the hospital.
Our entertainment, education and family activity programs have been proven to:
- Distract children from their pain.
- Help children better understand and manage their illnesses.
- Empower children to address the social, emotional, and medical aspects of living with a serious illness.
- Connect families facing similar challenges so that no one feels alone.
Research studies conducted on select Starlight Starbright programs indicate patient benefits such as:
- Reduction in pain and distress.
- Greater willingness to return for treatment.
- Increased sense of peer support.
- Increased knowledge and sense of responsibility for managing disease.
- Increased ability to cope with their disease.
Mad Science of Long Island is actively taking donations that go straight to the Starlight Foundation.
2008 Letter from the CEO of the Starlight Starbright Chidlren's Foundation®
2009 Letter from the CEO of the Starilight Starbright Children's Foundation®
NASA
 The NASA Langley's Center for Distance Learning draws on NASA's extensive resources to develop educational programs that raise the public's awareness of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and their relation to our everyday world. The Mad Science Group is the world's leading provider of science enrichment programs for elementary school-aged children. Mad Science is on a mission to spark the imagination of children everywhere with programs that instill a clear understanding of what science is really about and how it affects the world around us. Working together with common goals, Mad Science and the NASA Langley Center for Distance Learning have created the NASA Academy of Future Space Explorers, an unparalleled after-school program experience that brings the excitement and wonder of NASA's activities directly to children.
We are so excited about working with Mad Science. Like us, Mad Science is on a mission to spark the imagination and curiosity of children everywhere. By providing [children] with fun, interactive and challenging educational programs, Mad Science instills a clear understanding what science is really about, and how it affects our lives every day. Mad Science and the NASA Langley Center for Distance Learning [are] working together to inspire the next generation of explorers.
Jennifer Pulley,
Host of NASA Connect
NASA Langley Center for Distance Learning
Kennedy Space Center
 Mad Science has partnered with the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Cape Canaveral, Florida, to create a live-action production, Mad Mission to Mars: 2025. Incorporating 3D character animation, audience interaction, Mad Science-brand fun learning and a complete range of sound, lighting and special effects, Mad Mission to Mars was introduced to the Centers visitors in May 2001. The show was an instant success, playing to capacity crowds throughout the summer. The show currently plays at a specially constructed permanent venue complete with a Mad Science themed front entrance to the theater.
Mad Mission To Mars: 2025 visited over 30 cities in the summer of 2003, and was sold out for the entirety of 2004. This year, Mad Sciences various traveling stage productions entertained over 1 million people!
Our primary mission at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is to tell the NASA story and to inspire people of all ages to support the exploration of space. Mad Science helps us to inspire young people and their families in a more interactive, engaging and entertaining way than ever before. Were proud to offer our guests this high-quality, educational experience.
Rick Abramson,
Manager,
The Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex
Scholastic
 Mad Science has forged a powerful relationship with Scholastic Inc., the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books. The deal involves the creation of a 12-book series of Mad Science fictional novels for children. Over 1 million copies of the books have already been sold.
Scholastic distributed the series first through the Scholastic Book Club. After realizing the popularity of the series, Scholastic launched a retail distribution program supported by a national marketing campaign. Scholastics remarkable success in the school market and excellent reputation in the publishing industry was a perfect match for the Mad Science brand.
Each title in the Mad Science series represents an exciting mix of fantasy and science, and features main characters with the same energy and humor found in every Mad Science presentation. Set in a sixth-grade science lab, the novels focus on such themes as explosions, spy science, space, optical illusions and the science of sports.
Scholastic continues to introduce young people to the joys of reading with the successful Mad Science series of books, said Jean Feiwel, Sr. VP and Publisher of Scholastic. The exploits of Professor Von Offel and Ethan Flask have inspired kids to learn more about the world of science in a fun and educational way. We are committed to the Mad Science book series which we believe is an evergreen brand that will be around for a long time.
Jean Feiwel,
Senior Vice President and Publisher,
Scholastic
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