Project Exploration Summer Camp: Building STEM Interest and Skill Project Exploration has always been present, providing opportunities to young people in our city and exposing them to the most important STEM fields today. A Case Study on Moving the STEM Fence:...
This month’s Mentor of the Moment is Steve Shaheen. After seeing our call to create an intentional impact in our communities, Steve was inspired by PE’s mission to serve underrepresented youth in Chicago to volunteer. As a pipeline engineer at BP, Steve brought his...
Virtual Lunchroom, Innovating Ways to Connect! As we entered a period of uncertainty and imminent quarantine due to COVID-19 at Project Exploration (PE), we took it as an opportunity to innovate and continue to provide opportunities to youth underrepresented in the...
Family Comes First Project Exploration (PE) creates transformative STEM learning opportunities for youth underrepresented in the sciences –particularly students of color and girls — by reducing or removing barriers to STEM education and career possibilities. And, we...
PE’s Exceptional Summer of STEAM This summer, while not what we had planned, was better than we could’ve expected! PE ran two camps – one through the Chicago Park District, where we live-streamed into 15 different parks and one directly into our enrolled...
‘Enter’ the Summer with ‘Inter’ net. A large part of Project Exploration’s mission is to increase youth and family access to quality STEM experiences in formal and informal settings, from cradle to career. As we began to design summer...