By Brittney Snider | Project Leader
Forum to Advance Minorities in Engineering, Inc.’s (FAME, Inc.) outreach initiative, STEMulate™ Change, was accepted into the Change the Equation™ STEMworks database as a promising STEM learning program model that meets a “high bar for effectiveness.”
Change the Equation, a nonprofit, non-partisan partnership of CEOs, works at the intersection of business and education to ensure that all students are STEM literate by collaborating with schools, communities, and states to adopt and implement excellent STEM policies and programs.
STEMworks showcases the nation’s leading STEM education programs that make a real impact on students. Every STEM program accepted into STEMworks meets a high bar for excellence and rigor. Business leaders, funders and STEM advocates from across the nation use STEMworks to find proven and highly-scalable STEM education programs to help them maximize their impact on STEM education.
The STEMulate™ Change model is one of very few programs to receive this recognition.
In 2014, FAME engaged over 260 youth ages 9-18 at community centers and schools in interactive, hands-on STEM experiences through afterschool and summer programming. Our goal for the STEMulate™ Change program is to expose large numbers of Delaware’s youth to STEM in order to ignite interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.
Now having completed its first full year of operation in 2014, STEMulate™ Change’s 4 to 10 week curriculums are uniquely project-focused and designed around Global and American Icons who have made significant contributions in the STEM world. For instance, one of our curriculums focuses on the astronaut, Mae Jemison, who was the first African American woman to travel in space. Program participants are engaged in STEM education through her real-life experiences and hands-on activities which include visual and performing arts, designing and building, calculations, and much more.
Program curricula, which are aligned with Common Core Standards, teach children to solve problems in small groups through the completion of projects. The benefits of this program are considerable as students gain problem-solving skills, improved ability to work in a team, self-confidence, and increased STEM knowledge and interest.
We just completed a 10 week afterschool program serving 17 students at Thomas Edison Charter School in Wilmington, Delaware!
FAME is excited to expand this program throughout New Castle County in 2015 to serve at least 1,000 at-risk youth in afterschool and summer programming at schools and community centers!
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