Explore. Learn. Create. Grow.

2017 ANNUAL REPORT

45,444total visitors

Isabella CountyMidland CountyGratiot County

Clare CountyMecosta County

Montcalm County

123 fieldtrips

100volunteers

2,293volunteer

hours

230birthdays

6,471Facebooklikes

33%4%

13%

10%

7%

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The Mt. Pleasant Discovery

Museum’s vision is a world where

educational discovery enhances the

life of every child.

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We celebrated our 5-year Anniversary!

Our mission is to enhance

the community by inspiring

creativity, learning, and curiosity.

WEEKLY PROGRAMMING

EVENTS

CHANGE IN NET ASSETS $48,863

NET ASSETSDECEMBER 31, 2016 $1,805,521

NET ASSETSDECEMBER 31, 2017 $1,854,384

Supporting Services: Management & General FundraisingTotal Supporting ServicesTotal Expenses

$58,290$66,743

$125,033$587,570

EXPENSES

$462,537$462,537

Program Services: Museum OperationsTotal Program Services

REVENUE AND OTHER SUPPORT:$230,538

$6,078$50,041

$109,753$54,273$49,133$35,718

$97,304$3,595

$636,433

Cash ContributionsIn-Kind ContributionsFundraisersOperating Revenue: Admission Tickets Memberships Parties and Programs Retail Gift ShopGrant RevenueUnrealized Gains & LossesTotal Revenues & Other Support

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Pat’s Tai Ji FunLittle STEMmersThe BEST LakeGlow NightBowties and Bourbon GalaMarvelous Movies Day CampEat Healthy, Be HappySensory NightsEarth Day EverydayUnderwater Science AdventuresDiscover Saudi ArabiaGreenhouse GuruSchool's Out for SummerKids and CultureBlood DriveInternational Day of PlayMusic for the MuseumPancakes for PlayCostume PartyFall Fun DayWinter WonderlandMPDM’s 5th Birthday PartyMasquerade: A New Year’s Eve Party

Music TimeKids at ArtScience Sundays

Animal AnticsYoga

Life size Lite BrightLight Up Drumbone

Xbox Kinect WallLight and Magnet Table

Plasma Ball

The Luminary Lab gives children the hands-on opportunity to explore light. Visitors can design a picture on our Lite Bright, make music on our light-up drumbone, move with our interactive projector wall, build on our magnetic light table, and watch the gasses in our plasma ball.

MicroscopePop-Up CamperLife Size Ant Hill Climber

PleasAnt Park invites children to explore the wonders of nature through this visually pleasing exhibit. A mini-camper and pretend campfire welcome visitors to use their imagination in a unique and colorful Isabella County park setting. Children can climb through a hollow log to reach the micro-universe of an ant habitat and explore the ant climber equipped with a slide. PleasAnt Park also features a microscope to give visitors the opportunity to bring into focus some of the world’s smallest components.

EXHIBIT FEATURES

EXHIBIT FEATURES

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FIRST LEGO League is an organization that encourages youth to practice imaginative thinking and teamwork. Teams are guided by adult coaches to research a real-world problem such as food safety, recycling, and energy. They are challenged to develop a solution. They also must design, build, and program a robot using LEGO MINDSTORMS® technology, then compete on a table-top playing field.

Our FIRST LEGO League team was for kids in upper elementary school born between 2005-2007. The students placed 12th out of 36 teams at their first competition and did very well in all of their judging. Thank you to our Team Coach, Jessie Stevens and Assistant Coach, Ashlie Hinkle.

LED LIGHT PROJECT

Thanks to the generosity of the Saginaw Bay Watershed Initiative

Network and the Dow Corning Foundation, the Mt. Pleasant

Discovery Museum was able to replace and retrofit the museum

lights. The installation of LED lights took place in December helping us to save funding on

electricity and repairs.

The Mt. PleasantMINDBENDERS

BOWTIES & BOURBON

The Mt. Pleasant Discovery Museum hosted our first annual

Bowties and Bourbon gala. This bourbon infused culinary

competition raised over $40,000 for the museum. The winning

restaurant was Antlers Fireside Grill represented by Dr. Keating

and Dr. Moutsatson.

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Stageright Corporation

Vicki & Jeff Tuma

Bryan Wieferich, CFP

Women's Medical Center, PC

UP TO $499Advance Physical Therapy

ALG Lakeside, LLC

ALM Properties, Inc.

Bandit Industries, Inc.

Barberi Law

Taren & David Barberi

Nancy Beckwith - In memory of Clara Custer

Barbara Birckner

Broadway Barber Shop

Eli Buccilli

Central Michigan Hand Therapy

Century 21 Realty & Associates

Charles R. Lux Funeral Home

Liz & MJ Conway

Coyne Oil Corporation

Ewa & Joe Czyzyk

Daniel R. O'Neil Attorney at Law

Liz & Kevin Daum

Krista & Keno Davis

DeShano Community Foundation

Ireta Ekstrom

Amy & Jim Ervin

Ed Fisher

Fox Pediatrics

Monica & Malcolm Fox

Gratiot-Isabella Regional Education Service Dist.

Gray's Furniture & Appliances Inc.

Green Tree Cooperative Grocery

Green's Towing & Recovery

Guys and Dolls Photography

Hall & Bolles, P.C.

Merrie & Arnold Hammel

Christine & Thomas Hammond

Harrison Lion's Club

Ruth & Edwin Helwig

Hope Network

Neuro Rehabilitation

IA Egger Private Foundation

J. Ranck Electric, Inc.

Kim Jensen

Russell Jones

Scott Kastning

Bob Kohrman

Lois & Tom Kromer

Laser Connection

Latitude Media LLC

Nancy Lewis

Lauri & Aaron Liscomb

Carolyn & Ronald Lutz

Pat McGann

Mid-Michigan Agency

Gisela Brunhilde-Moffit

Mordica Sales Associates

Mt. Pleasant Agency

Northern Logistics

Claudia Pastorelli

RE/MAX of Mt. Pleasant

Amy & Tony Powell

Michele & Martin Punke

Chris & Jake Rowley

Kayla Slezak

Alison & Jeff Smith

Brian Smith

JoEllen Delucia & Nathanial Smith

Stageright Corporation

Summit Petroleum Corp.

Mary & Ron Tecklenberg

Dennis Thavenet

Trillium Fine Clothing

Devra & Tom Tuma

Margerita & Nick Wilson

Gail Woodruff

Shawn L. Zimmer, D.D.S.

Marni Taylor

Lon Morey

Mt. Pleasant Area Community Foundation

Mt. Pleasant Rotary Club

HEXAGONSBoge, Wybenga & Bradley, P.C.

Sue Carey

Central Michigan Orthopaedics

CGS Hospitality, LLC

Contour Engineering, Inc.

William Dittenber

Lori & Tim Driessnack

Lee & Jim Fabiano

Jennifer & Jay Fields

James Fields

GreenStone Farm Credit Services

Dr. Michael Hoff

Home Depot

Isabella County Parks

Krapohl Ford Lincoln

Hometowne Realty, LLC.

Andrew Marks

McGuirk Sand-Gravel

McLaren Central Michigan

Media Image, Inc.

Members First Credit Union

Annette Messinger

Mid Michigan Medical Center-Gratiot

Adam Mock

Morbark, LLC

Mr. Electric of Central Michigan

Optimist Club of Mt. Pleasant

Pitt Ohio Express

Pleasant Optics

Pohlcat Golf Course Inc.

Qdoba Mexican Eats

Southwind Restaurants, LLC

Kristine & Dr. Ray Ribitch Jr.

Robert F. Murray & Company

Ryan Schlicht State Farm Insurance

Judy & Sid Smith

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WORKER BEEDorsay Foundation

DRONESThe Morey Foundation

HONEYEleanor & WilliamMartin

Michigan MasonicCharitable Foundation

POLLINATORSThe Alden and Vada DowFamily Foundations

Dow Corning Foundation

Rollin M. Gerstacker Foundation

Isabella Bank

The McGuirk Families - Sandy (McGuirk) & Pat Dean, Chuck & Jennifer McGuirk, and Rick & Julie McGuirk

Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs

Morey Montessori PTO

Sandra & Dennis Olson- In memory of Dr. & Mrs. WM. E. Hersee

Saginaw Bay Watershed Initiative Network

NECTARLisa & Lance Ferden

Graff Chevrolet-Mt. Pleasant, Inc.

Jay's Sporting Goods

Isabella Community Credit Union

Mercantile Bank of Michigan

Modern Woodmen of America

United Way of Gratiot & Isabella Counties

FLOWERSCommunity Advancement Network

Fisher Companies

LaBelle Management Inc.

Doug and Melissa Labelle Family Foundation

Abby’s of Frankenmuth

Adelaide’s Bistro

Antlers Fireside Grill

Air Zoo

Art Reach of Mid-Michigan

ASL Students of CMU

Association of Recreation and Event Professionals

Camille’s on the River

Castle Museum

Chase’s Place Food Truck

Chippewa Nature Center

Chippewa River District Library

Chippewa River Water Festival

CMU Center for Excellence in STEM Education

CMU Child Development and Learning Lab

CMU College of Medicine

Cops & Doughnuts - Central Precinct

Domino’s Pizza

PARTNERS

McLaren Central Michigan (2)

Judy L. Wybenga, DDS & Craig Downer, DDS & Herbert L. Wybenga, CPA

Qdoba Mexican Eats

Mt. Pleasant Optimist Club

Hometowne Realty, LLC

The Eye Site

Women’s Medical Center

Pleasant Optics

The Mt. Pleasant Discovery Museum

welcomed over 3,900 visitors during our 2017

Discovery Days. Discovery Days are sponsored

days, allowing us to open our doors to the

public free of charge. DIS

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Evart Farmer’s Market

Fireside Grill

FIRST LEGO League Robotics

Gray’s Furniture

Graff Chevrolet

Grand Rapids Children’s Museum

Grand Rapids Public Museum

Great Start Collaborative

Green’s Towing & Recovery

GreenTree Cooperative Grocery

ICE Arena

Impression 5 Science Center

Isabella Conservation District

Isabella County Transportation Commission

Jump Station

Kelli Walton

Kids ‘N’ Stuff Children’s Museum

LaBelle Management

Local Author: Kate Pickens

Mary Ellen Brandell Volunteer Center

Max & Emily’s Eatery

Michigan Blood

Midland Center for the Arts

Mid-Michigan Children’s Museum

MidMichigan Health

Morey Courts Recreation Center

Mr. Electric of the Tri-Cities

Mt. Pleasant Comfort Inn & Suites Hotel & Conference Center

Mt. Pleasant Farmers Market

Mt. Pleasant Parks and Recreation

Music Man Dan

National Science Teachers Association of CMU

One Twenty South

Parks and Outdoor Recreation Coalition

Peace, Love, Hoop, LLC

Pere Marquette District Library

Play on the Way

RedBloom Yoga

Sandcastles Children’s Museum

S.A.V.E.

Stir

Tales N Tunes with Tricia

The Gourmet Cupcake Shoppe

Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture and Lifeways

9&10 News

95.3 WCFX

CORE DISCOVERY TEAM

Liz ConwayExecutive Director

Lisa PhelpsOperations and Finance Director

Alexis StraubEvents and

Marketing Director

Ed Zebrowski, ChairmanMedia Image, Inc.Ali Smith, Vice ChairwomanCommunity MemberAmy Ervin, TreasurerMercantile BankJake Rowley, SecretaryCentral Michigan University

David Barberi, DirectorBarberi Law FirmLisa Ferden, DirectorIntegrated Database SystemsDani Montini, DirectorGeneral AgencyTim Otteman, Director Central Michigan UniversityJim Parsons, DirectorCentury 21 - Central RealtySharon Schaar, DirectorRenaissance Public School AcademyJudy French Smith, DirectorCommunity MemberShelly Smith, DirectorCommunity MemberAngie White, DirectorCommunity Member

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The Mt. Pleasant Discovery Museum is a vital part of my family’s life. Since its initial construction when we wondered what was this building with a silo was going to be, to now being a part of my family’s routine, we have come to depend upon the Museum to help our grandchildren grow into boys and girls that love to learn and explore new things.

Sincerely, John DenHeeten

MPDISCOVERYMUSEUM.ORG(989) 317-3221

5093 E. REMUS RD. MT. PLEASANT, MI 48858