The Chicago Sun Times Gave Our Summer Program a Shout-Out
Elijah James wrote about STEAMbassador William Slaughter, Executive Director Natasha Smith-Walker and Project Exploration’s summer camp students.
Inside Project Exploration’s Newest STEM Learning Center, and the young people who are already writing their futures from it
PE’s newest STEM Learning Center quietly opened this spring inside Frederick Douglass Academy High School, “The Jewel of Chicago’s West Side” — already carrying this kind of energy. The kind that doesn’t wait to be invited. The kind that has a plan. The kind where doors are open and young people like Nevaeh, are walking in mapping out their futures like the room was built for them . . . for her.
Because it was.
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...
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.”