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Founded by Sally Ride in 2001.1
Sally Ride Science was founded in 2001 as a company by astronaut Sally Ride, along with Tam O'Shaughnessy, Karen Flammer, Terry McEntee, and Alann Lopes, with the goal of increasing interest and participation in STEM fields among young people.
The organization developed out of Ride's earlier science education initiatives in the 1990s, when she researched contributing factors to lower participation in STEM fields. She began planning educational outreach programs and creating educational materials aimed at increasing student interest.
Sally Ride Science was relaunched as a nonprofit program at the University of California, San Diego on October 1, 2015. It is based at UC San Diego Extension, and its programs are coordinated jointly by UC San Diego Extension, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and San Diego Supercomputer Center. Currently Tam O'Shaughnessy serves as executive director and Karen Flammer is director of education.
From Wikipedia’s article on Sally Ride Science, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4