McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center

As a VENUE: Host your event…

Rent The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center for your next event. Space – the Final Frontier – at your command, day or night, seven days a week! Rental space is available 7 days a week for before and after hours events. Some rooms available for daytime private events; full facility rentals available during Friday and weekend evenings. Rent New Hampshire’s coolest space and make it your own, for: * Anniversary parties * Bar & bat mitzvahs * Class reunions * Investor appreciation events * Milestone birthdays * Company retreats * Annual meetings * Holiday parties * Product rollouts * Retirement parties, * Weddings & receptions * Concerts & more! Four distinctive event spaces are offered:

• Entire Facility: Can accommodate up to 600 people. A unique space that will make a lasting impression on your guests. This space can be used for holiday parties, proms, bar and bat mitzvahs, weddings and more.
• Function Room: Can accommodate up to 100 people. A great space for a meeting, workshop or a smaller celebration.
• Board Room or Classroom: For meeting fewer than 25 attendees.
• Have a Birthday Party at the Discovery Center! Birthday packages are offered.

As a SHOP: Discover unique gifts…

As an EATERY: Food for thought…

Be a DONOR: Show that you care…

• Adopt a Star: Adopt a star in the Discovery Center‘s planetarium and help support the educational mission of the Discovery Center. With your gift you may honor a loved one with a memoriam, celebrate a graduation, a wedding or birth of a child, adopt a star in your own name, or have a quotation of your choice shown next to your star during every Tonight’s Sky planetarium show for one year (Star level) or ten years (Galaxy level).
• Opinions 4 Good Partnership: Looking for a new way to support us? Join Opinions4Good and get paid to share your insights, while also helping to support our mission of inspiring every generation to reach for the stars. As a member, you’ll be offered regular opportunities to take paid surveys online. You can then choose to donate 25% to 100% of your survey earnings back to The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center. This is a great way to donate from the comfort of your own home, and without opening your own wallet.
• AmazonSmile: AmazonSmile is a simple way for you to support the Discovery Center every time you shop, at no additional cost to you! Instead of going to Amazon.com, use your Amazon account at Smile.Amazon.com for all the same purchasing options. Then, choose the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center as your charity, and AmazonSmile will donate 0.5% of your eligible purchases to support our educational mission!
• Donation of Items: If you have items that you wish to donate, please contact us first before bringing them by, as we have limited collections space.

Volunteer: Volunteers are crucial to the success of the Discovery Center! Through the efforts of our extraordinary volunteers, the Discovery Center is able to provide quality programs and events that benefit our many visitors.

NASA Space Grant STEM Interns: The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center seeks candidates with STEM backgrounds to work with educators, day campers, and the public at the Discovery Center this summer. Our NASA Space Grant STEM Interns will work with the Discovery Center’s Education Team to develop age-appropriate, STEM-based curricula and daily activities for the Center’s summer STEM day camp series for ages 5-14, and serve as lead summer camp teachers and counselors, creating an enjoyable, safe, challenging educational STEM camp for all Discovery Center campers. Camp topics include astronomy, programming, and meteorology. Staff and programs at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, including day camps and STEM Interns, will follow NH State Guidance for COVID protocols to ensure the safety of campers, staff, and the visiting public.