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.

Sense of Belonging and STEM After-School Programs

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

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...
Chicago Learning Days 2022

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...
The WOW Moments Made Me Stay

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...

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