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Breaking Ground on Building Block Club: A Q&A with Our STEAMbassadors
For this month’s feature, we wanted to highlight our Building Block Club (BBC) Program and two STEAMbassadors that are leading this program for the first time, this fall. Jessica Cervantes, new to teaching, used to be a...
Sense of Belonging and STEM After-School Programs
By Program Evaluations Manager Miguel Angel Vazquez III, and Communications and Outreach Manager Benjamin Cummings Illustration by Benjamin Cummings for Project Exploration. As human beings, we naturally seek a sense of belonging within the social systems we are a...
Week One! A Photo Essay
We’re two weeks into Fall Program at the West Side STEM Learning Center at Bethel New Life (SLC) and It Takes a Village Leadership Academy in Bronzeville, and we’re already having moments of excitement, curiosity and connection! At 3:00, when students first arrive at...
What’s New for Fall 2025?
This fall, Project Exploration is launching 22 programs across 8 sites, serving students from Kindergarten through 12th grade. For the first time, we’re introducing our Building Block Club (K–2nd grade) at two new schools—It Takes a Village in Bronzeville and Catalyst...
STEAMbassadors Approach Social Emotional Learning in the Classroom
Read about how our Year-Round STEAMbassadors interested in psychology approach social emotional learning in the classroom.
Summer Day for Sisters and Brothers for Science: A Photo Essay
This summer, the children of Project Exploration are hard at work! Our PE Summer Camp fills their days will enriching experiments, activities, and STEM lessons. Though this photo essay, we join the children in the Sisters for Science and Brothers for Science (6th-8th...
Education, Advice, and Dreams: an Interview with Christopher Hayes
For this week’s newsletter, our esteemed communications team member Cameron Ames sits down with our One Summer Program Coordinator Christopher Hayes, born and raised in Chicago—who passionately sparks the love of STEM in young minds. Hayes is training to be a...
Project Exploration x YPP: Who are the Young People’s Project (YPP)?
Who are the Young People’s Project (YPP)? and how are they collaborating with Project Exploration this summer? Watch the video above to hear from Tyla Banks and learn about how YPP is training our STEAMbassadors to be program facilitators and also Math Literacy Workers!
Meet Some of Our New STEAMbassadors
Meet STEAMbassadors, Jared, Alexa and Joseph and learn about where they will be for the summer!