STEM PUSH Network

Helping Students on a Path to College by Embedding College Supports into Pre-College STEM Programs

In STEM PUSH, the networked improvement community, or NIC, is our learning engine.

Pre-college STEM programs test small changes to their programming and gather data about whether these changes are leading to improvements in how well they serve Black, Latina/o/e, and Indigenous students.

Over time, the “tests of change” that individual programs conduct help us learn collectively what works for which students, under what conditions.

In this issue, we share the learning from one of the Embedded STEM College-Going Support change ideas. Specifically, we explore how pre-college STEM program leads supported guest speakers to better connect with youth.

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NACAC’s Journal of College Admission features STEM PUSH: Pre-college STEM programs teach students
about scientific inquiry, research, and much
more. Yet many of these out-of-school
programs that are equity-focused often aren’t
considered in college admission because
there’s too much variability across programs
for admission offices to evaluate. A national
alliance called the STEM PUSH Network is
working to change that.

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