why support House of Science?
Quality
We ensure a high quality product and service across all regions through comprehensive training, support and audits.
Value
We know teachers value our comprehensive solution to science through regular monitoring using online surveys.
Impact
Students are engaged, learning key science concepts and progress in literacy and numeracy as a result of our resources.
Get Involved
We rely on community involvement on many levels, from volunteering locally to deliver and maintain resource kits, to partnering with us on a national level to develop new resource kits. Every bit counts, so if you're interested in getting involved with the House of Science, get in touch!
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Volunteer with us
Are you available regularly for a few hours a week? Want to help us out? Check out our locations and sign up as a volunteer.
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Partner
Looking to partner with us to make a huge impact? Talk to us about sponsoring a school, branch, or set of resource kits.
Donation
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Give a little
Make a direct contribution through our Givealittle page to support our initiatives.
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Legacy Fund
Strengthen our lasting impact by getting in touch with the Acorn Foundation and contributing to our legacy fund.
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Global Giving
Extend your support by participating in our GlobalGiving project, ‘bringing science to all NZ kids’.
National Partner
Wright Family Foundation
The Wright Family Foundation supports individuals to achieve their full potential through education, health and environmental initiatives throughout New Zealand. The foundation has walked alongside House of Science since 2015 enabling the growth into more regions and resource translation into te reo Māori.


It was amazing!!! We absolutely loved it and the kids got a real buzz out of all the activities that we did. We wish that we could have had more time but we had to share with other classes. It was so easy to use and it really brought science alive in the classroom. We are going to move into a renewable energy inquiry after such a successful, motivating and inspiring week with your kit. Thank you so much. Catherine Steenson Teacher and Learner in room 3.
Electric Future
Catherine Steenson
Marfell School
The children absolutely loved this kit. The whole class was engaged and excited the whole time. It was my favourite science kit so far and the children said the same. The range of materials was very interesting for the children and they loved exploring the concepts of floating and sinking. The ‘flinking’ activity was their favourite. Great fun, great learning! Thanks so much. I have told all my colleagues that I highly recommend this kit – particularly for younger learners.
Float my boat
Bronwyn Bateman
St James Catholic School
As this was a new curriculum for us at Tarawera High School we were learning together (students and teacher) about the science kits, vocabulary for science as well as experiments. Great hands on resources for students to do investigations with as well as inquiry learning
Raewyn Houia
Tarawera High School
Kit overall was fantastic, and the students loved working out all of the components! Ph scale was great – could have spent on whole lesson on this alone!
Who-Dunnit
Amy Thompson
Opawa School
The tamariki loved this Science kit, they were able to look at some of the food in a different way, the experiments were awesome. Nga mihi nui ki a koe, koutou ko nga tangata I awhina ki te whakahaere tenei mahi Putaiao.
Food for Thought
Robyn Davey
Tamarongo School
