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Carol Seanez, Native American Science and Engineering Program with the University of Arizona Office of Early Academic Outreach

As Navajo STEM educator, and past participant of  Native American Science and Engineering Program with the University of Arizona Office of Early Academic Outreach, (NASEP) Carol Seanez would like to see greater appreciation for, and inclusion of Indigenous knowledge and practices in STEM disciplines.  “You know, the scientific method is to observe, think of a…

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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…

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September 2022 Newsletter

In STEM PUSH, the networked improvement community, or NIC, is our learning engine. Precollege STEM programs try out small changes to their programming and gather data about whether these changes are leading to improvements in how well they serve Black, Latinx, and/or Indigenous students. Over time, the “tests of change” that individual programs conduct help…

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August 2022 Newsletter

Pre-college STEM programs (PCSPs) serve an important role for students in their STEM journeys. These programs connect students with the scientific community by engaging in high-quality STEM content such as cutting-edge research, or the latest engineering practices, experiences that students cannot get in their schools. Students learn important, transferable, skills like problem solving, experimental design,…

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STEM PUSH Network Accepts Three New Communities to Join Network; Arizona, Cleveland, New Jersey join to Work for Reforms in STEM College Admissions

PITTSBURGH – Three new communities will join the STEM PUSH Network, a National Science Foundation INCLUDES Alliance, to work for systemic change in post-secondary admissions. The Arizona SciTech Institute, the New Jersey STEM Pathways Network and the NeoSTEM Ecosystem in Cleveland, all Ecosystems associated with the STEM Learning Ecosystems Community of Practice, are the second…

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Twitter Chat – Increasing Enrollment of Underrepresented Students in STEM Programs

A Collaborative Conversation with the STEM Push Network, Remake Learning and the STEM Learning Ecosystems Community of Practice  We know the college admissions system is broken. It’s rife with systemic inequity. It relies on outdated standardized testing standards. How do we fix it? What can we as Ecosystem partners do? Remake Learning’s Pittsburgh Regional STEAM…

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Northeastern Illinois’ Center for College Access – Building Resumes and Supports for Underserved Students

Aaron Cortes works to give underserved students some of the advantages that privileged youth enjoy, things that he and many others who work with Northeastern Illinois University’s Center for College Access and Success, didn’t have when they were growing up. “Many of us who come from underserved communities were never given opportunities to choose what…

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Science is a ‘wonder’: Rockefeller works to help ensure that more students can embrace science

Rockefeller works to help ensure that more students can embrace science NEW YORK – Students who participate in Rockefeller University’s LAB Experience program may have an opportunity to examine their own DNA. Hundreds of New York middle and high school students come to the university’s RockEDU Science Outreach Laboratory for a look at the life…

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SLECoP reacts to 2019 College Admissions Scandal

At a recent SLECoP watch party of the Netflix documentary Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal we relived the drama of the 2019 scandal that saw wealthy parents working with college admissions coach, Rick Singer, to cheat and buy their children’s way into elite universities. We had a lively chat filled with outrage at “Aunt Becky”…

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Participation in the STEM PUSH Network will support the continuous improvement of your programming while creating a mechanism to benefit your students’ postsecondary pathways. 

Benefits of Participation

  • Connect to a national project supported by the National Science Foundation.
  • Increase the coherence of STEM programming in your ecosystem by supporting the linkages between PCSPs and higher education.
  • Learn how to use improvement science as a mechanism for continuous improvement.
  • Build deep connections with other regional STEM ecosystems and many PCSPs from across the country.