Who Is Edheads?
The Edheads Difference
Edheads has decades of research to back the success of our approach. But stats never tell the whole story. To truly understand what Edheads means to the world, you just need to talk to some of the STEM professionals who were introduced to science through Edheads. We don’t create content—we nurture futures.
Edheads alum are all impacted by Edheads’ brand of fun, interactive, career exploration while in grades 2-12. They were motivated to pursue their current STEM careers by engaging with our content.
What We Do
Edheads has reached millions of K-12 students—allowing them to ‘test drive’ STEM careers, while reinforcing their science and math curriculum. By capturing student imaginations and igniting career aspirations, Edheads empowers students to pursue fulfilling, productive careers in science, technology, engineering and math. We tie school to work by reinforcing basic skills and demonstrating how they are applied in STEM careers.
How We Do It
Through corporate philanthropy, sponsorships, partnerships and donations, Edheads—a 501c3 non-profit organization—creates exciting educational games, stories, videos, and experiences that inspire today’s K-12 students to become the STEM leaders of tomorrow. We believe every student should have the opportunity to fulfill their dreams and career aspirations.
Over 150 million students have used Edheads’ free games and content so far. Help us reach even more!
Teachers value Edheads, with 97% strongly agreeing that they would recommend Edheads to a colleague.
Students love Edheads and 95% of them would recommend our site to their friends. Many share URLs when we test new content.
We reach diverse students in all 50 states and numerous foreign countries every week of the school year.
Who we are... behind the stats...
Leadership
Edheads relies on the passion of our staff and volunteers to keep providing our award-winning STEM content.
Gail Wheatley
Executive Director | LinkedIn
Gail has a passion for fun and informal education and a great deal of experience in informal learning institutions and science education. She brainstorms ideas with team and volunteers, establishes partnerships with scientists, surgeons and people and corporations that do interesting things. Gail writes the grants and the storyboards for the activities, manages the projects overall, crunches lots of numbers and works with the Board to do the long term planning for Edheads. She’s always on the lookout for great new ideas and people who have them. She lives with two monster Westies (no, that is not an oxymoron) whose current science experiment is determining how many times they can dig up an apple tree before killing it.