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Application: Financial Aid for Museum Programs

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Roberta Pailes Fund Application

  • Roberta Pailes educated students of all ages about natural and cultural history for more than three decades at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. Generations of Norman residents came to know her through school programs, archaeology labs and summer programs. She shared her love of all things wild and her ethic of caring for nature with legions of children. Roberta also served the greater Norman community on many boards including Parks, Sutton Urban Wilderness and many planning commissions and study groups. She believed that people will care for what they know about. Children who play in and explore wilderness will grow up to be adults who choose to protect wildlife and natural landscapes. This fund honors and continues her legacy by making museum education programs available to empower children to learn about the world around them.

    Families with children ages 3 to 17 who can demonstrate financial need* may apply for program fee waivers from the Roberta Pailes Fund. *Please upload a copy of the Free and Reduced Lunch Award Letter with your application.

    Fee waiver criteria: Applications are available on a first-come, first-served basis

    Members and non-Members may apply Fee waivers are available for any paid education program for youth, teen, or family (not adults) Each family may receive a waiver once per child per semester, and a maximum of two waivers per family per semester (Spring, Summer, and Fall) Please submit a separate fee-waiver application for each child and each program.

    Waivers apply only to program fees, and exclude museum admission, K-12 classes, Teen Volunteers, and ExplorOlogy

    Families will be notified via email and will be contacted to complete registration

  • Funding Application

  • What Program are you most interested in attending?

    Please select up to two programs.

  • Qualifying Program Information

  • (Requirements)

  • (Examples of qualifying programs)

    Please identify what program if any you are currently enrolled in that would qualify you for this funding.
  • Max. file size: 2 MB.