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PE Speaks at the White House
On December 12th, the White House Office of Science is Technology Policy, in collaboration with the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, hosted the White House Summit on STEMM Equity and Excellence. Among the...
REGISTER: FREE Project Exploration Winter Break Camp – Jan 3rd – 6th, 2023
Calling All Chicago K-8th Grade Students! Join Project Exploration for a FREE Winter Break Camp, where you can get to know local wildlife with the Lincoln Park Zoo, learn to code and use it to create animations and models to solve problems, build your own roller...
Calling All STEM Professionals: New Volunteer Opportunities with PE Students
Multiple volunteer opportunities have emerged with Project Exploration (PE) as we enter our 23rd year of creating transformative learning experiences for youth underrepresented in STEM, and we hope you will join us to support Chicago students and families. In...
Chicago Learning Days 2022
Chicago Learning Days was a blast! Huge thanks to our community and STEM partners who helped make it a success! Project Exploration believes that it's important to engage with students of all ages to provide holistic learning opportunities and resources that allow...
The WOW Moments Made Me Stay
Seeing young women enthusiastically create, inquire, struggle, and persevere alongside strong female mentors is inspiring. Such was the backdrop when Natasha Smith Walker joined PE’s team as Executive Director in 2013. She met one of PE’s STEM Facilitators, Nedume, a...
“STEMpowered” Women You Should Know: PE Celebrates Women’s History Month
Project Exploration is proud to celebrate Women's History Month by recognizing the female leaders who make an impact on PE students and in STEM broadly. From board members to PE's Executive Director, these women are responsible for making STEM accessible for hundreds...
Spring Programs Spotlight
Project Exploration (PE) has created transformative learning opportunities for youth underrepresented in the sciences–particularly students of color and girls – for more than 23 years. While Fall program sessions are intended to expose students to and get them...
2022 Spring Partners Spotlight
Since 1999, Project Exploration (PE) has worked to change the face of STEM. With equity at our core, we serve youth from communities historically underrepresented in the STEM fields, and work to remove barriers that prevent black, brown, and low-income youth and young...
Lifting Up Black Leaders in STEM: PE Celebrates Black History Month
“When you launch in a rocket, you’re not really flying that rocket. “The deeper the journey into inner space, the further the possibilities in outer space.” – this is very important – so you don’t have to carry the return fuel when you go there.” “Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.”