MINOT, ND (KXNET) — A local nonprofit helping kids find their voice in the arts is getting a major boost and a new home. Full STEAM Ahead is receiving a $50,000 grant from the Minot Area Community Foundation to support the nonprofit's recent purchase of a new permanent location.

Full STEAM Ahead blends the arts with topics like science, technology, engineering and math. Leaders say the new location gives the non-profit a stable classroom, lab, and performance space, meaning more seats for kids, more volunteers trained, and a better flow for families.

"Full STEAM Ahead has been around since 2017, Make a Scene Kids Theatre started in 2015, so we're going on 10 years, and we've always rented," Full STEAM Ahead executive director Allison Auch said. "We've kind of been in the cycle of that, w

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