The site won a Parents' Choice Award in 2008.
Wolfram Research's staff organizes and edits the Demonstrations, which may be created by any user of Mathematica, then freely published[1] and freely downloaded.
The Demonstrations run in Mathematica 6 or above and in Wolfram CDF Player, which is a free modified version of Wolfram Mathematica[2] and available for Windows, Linux, and macOS[3] and can operate as a web browser plugin.
[4] Each Demonstration page includes a snippet of JavaScript code in the Share section of the sidebar.
The website is organized by topic, for example: science,[5] art, and biology.