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...

Uncovering what makes a learning ecosystem thrive!

Uncovering what makes a learning ecosystem thrive! Project Exploration Continues to Look at Assets in Austin On Thursday, August 1st, PE, along with Chicago City of Learning, Digital Youth Network, and Northwestern and DePaul Universities, hosted an Austin...

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