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Brothers4Science: Volcanoes & Dinosaurs Ruled the Maker MOB Event!
“Jurassic World was brought to life at the Maker Mob event on December 14, 2017!”
Explore Engineering: Money and School and Cars! Oh My!
“Explore Engineering Fall 2017 program flew by so fast!”
Sisters4Science – Funston: Looking Towards the New Year!
The fall semester in review by S4S Facilitator Sandra Munoz!
Sisters4Science – Spencer: Cardboard + Spoons = A Pin-Ball Machine!?
The Sisters4Science made pinball machines out of cardboard boxes and spoons!
Dusabling, reclaiming what belongs to you! In Memory of Bryant Williams
STEM Professionals Impact At Project Exploration (PE), we value building relationships with students, but we also cultivate relationships with STEM Professionals. In many cases, these relationships have opened up opportunities for our youth, partnerships to increase...
Jaclyn Carmichael, Program Director shares her busy Fall!
Jaclyn Carmichael, Project Exploration Program at DML Hello everyone! My name is Jaclyn Carmichael and I am the Program Director for Project Exploration! It has been a busy time of travel these past couple months for me and I wanted to share a little about what I’ve...
Authentic STEM Experiences Help Change the Face of Science
Project Exploration (PE) works to find ways to engage our participants in real-world and authentic experiences. In our middle school programs, we provide trips to various STEM rich institutions in Chicago to build their understanding of STEM in everyday careers. With our high school programs that focus on a STEM specific discipline, identifying authentic experiences becomes more creative. However, with effective partnerships we find organizations willing and ready to help us fulfill this goal!
The role of STEM mentors, it makes a difference!
One of the cornerstone principles of Project Exploration (PE) programs is to provide our students with mentors and role models that will be positive influences on their education and personal goals. One of the ways PE does this is in the training and development of our STEM Facilitators to provide engaging and interesting activities for our students! Not only is it important for our Facilitators to be engaging, we also need them to be relatable to our students. This is the way in which to really establish connections with our students that will keep them coming back to program!
Meaningful experiences in STEM Learning make a difference!
Project Exploration has been committed to developing STEM learning opportunities in the Austin community and thrilled to bring Sisters4Science to Spencer Elementary Technology Academy. Arionna an 8th grader at Spencer joined Sisters4Science because the name peaked her interest, she was curious, she loves chemistry and wanted to try something new.