Friends Of Drake Well Inc

Programs: Friends of drake well inc. 's primary endeavors, as measured by expenses, are its educational programs. Most expensive and unique is our innovative educational outreach program, meet-u (mobile energy education training unit), at 66,436. Featuring a 44-foot traveling trailer filled with energy exhibits, meet-u offers school students and the general public the opportunity to learn about and experience energy history, current technology, petroleum and petrochemical uses, and the importance and economics of various energy sources through interactive display. Friends of drake well, inc. Also offers meet-u in the classroom, a program that brings hands-on energy lessons directly to the classroom. Over 13,300 people, including 7,164 students, enjoyed and benefitted from the meet-u program in fiscal year 2014/2015. Meet-u is a mutually beneficial cooperative effort between friends of drake well, inc. And the pennsylvania historical & museum commission to operate and maintain the program, services and equipment. This partnered program directly benefits both the pennsylvania historical & museum commission and friends of drake well, inc. By enabling friends of drake well, inc. To directly undertake an educational program for the general public at its own expense while providing highly visible advertising for the pennsylvania historical & museum commission's drake well museum and park. Friends of drake well, inc. 's other educational programs include the annual drake day circus (served over 1,000 visitors at this event modeled on circuses that traveled throughout pennsylvania's oil region during the 1860's); the annual fall gas-up historic engine and equipment show; drake well by moonlight (provided nighttime living history tours of the museum grounds featuring first person reenactments to over 100 visitors); living the lease life school tour program (provided guided tours, exhibits, traditional craft demonstrations and hands-on activities about the history of the early oil industry and how it relates to current energy issues for more than 1,600 students); edwin l. Drake's birthday; wildcatter day at pithole (provided guided exhibit and grounds tours, period music and civil war reenactors for over 320 people visiting pennsylvania's legendary oil boomtown); drake well museum family days (heritage events throughout the year that are for the entire family, including crafts, geneaology workshops, period games, music demonstrations and more); and the annual heritage lecture series (historians and other experts deliver presentations on the people, places and events surrounding the birth of the petroleum industry in pennsylvania and its growth into a global enterprise).

a public focal point of a trip to the drake well museum is the operating drake well replica funded and run by friends of drake well, inc. At a cost of 45,717. The fully functioning steam engine driven well pump is on display and running during museum hours with the added benefit of live demonstrators providing instructive historical information to museum guests.

the friends of drake well, inc. Also provide educational material via its own publications to the general public and its members at a cost of 12,845 in fiscal year 2015. Publications include the oil field journal.

these are all the administrative expenses for program services.