PURCHASE, N.Y.—Mastercard said it went “over the moon” for yesterday’s solar eclipse.
Mastercard reached out to schools and students near the company’s O’Fallon, Mo. Operations and Technology Center, located west of St. Louis and well-within the 2,945 mile “path of totality.”
According to MasterCard, schools and students in the area benefitted from:
- A donation of 50,000 pairs of eclipse viewing glasses to the St. Louis Eclipse Task Force for distribution to schools in need, enabling students to safely view the eclipse
- A partnership with the Jennings School District in St. Louis to host a viewing party for 600 students at Northview Elementary School. The students were filmed pre-eclipse, to get their thoughts on this once-in-a-lifetime experience
- Livestream of the eclipse, using a split screen interface, so viewers could enjoy the eclipse on one side of their screen, while experiencing the reactions and emotions of some of the elementary school children at the same time
- An annual membership to the St. Louis Science Center, courtesy of Mastercard, for each Northview’s 600 students, encouraging their interest in learning more about space, science, technology, engineering and math