The Connectory: Add In Your Afterschool STEM Opportunities

[Berry, Tricia S]

This information below was shared from The Connectory (www.TheConnectory.org). Don’t forget to add your afterschool STEM opportunities for youth into The Connectory. Many STEM networks are using The Connectory as a primary place to point the community to find STEM events and opportunities. Make sure you are included!

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Afterschool STEM 101 With students heading back to school in late August and early September, it's a good time for program providers to brush up on Afterschool STEM 101. The Afterschool Alliance is one of The Connectory's collaborating partners and provides resources specifically developed for teaching STEM in the out-of-school-time environment. Below are just a few resources to help program providers brush up this fall: STEM After School: How to Design and Run Great Program Activities: This guide contains information, ideas, and resources to increase student engagement in science-related afterschool programs and provides a general framework to help create and maintain a high-quality program.      FUSE Resource Guide: Frontiers in Urban Science Exploration (FUSE) is a multi-city afterschool initiative. This resource guide details promising strategies for engaging, inquiry-based out-of-school-time STEM education. Curriculum and Activities: A collection of low-cost STEM activities and curriculum developed for and tested in the afterschool setting. Assessment and Evaluation: These resources will help make the case to funders, the media, and the public about the positive impact your STEM program is having on participants. Use these tools to measure impact and outcomes. Professional Development: Explore these resources to help staff and mentors better provide out-of-school-time STEM programming. Funding Afterschool STEM: Resources to help better understand the different types of funding, as well as some funding opportunities specifically for STEM learning.   Add Your Afterschool Opportunities It's that time of the year to start adding your upcoming afterschool STEM opportunities for youth. Our Getting Started Guide makes it easy. The Connectory is free to use and is the go-to resource that helps families and caregivers connect the children in their lives to STEM learning opportunities

 

 

Bulk Uploads for Opportunities We offer a streamlined way to add dozens of opportunities - afterschool camps, workshops, career fairs, competitions, and other time-bound STEM events - to The Connectory. Email us at in...@theconnectory.org and we will send you a customized spreadsheet to complete.

 

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Tricia Berry

Pronouns: she, her, hers

 

·  Collaboration Lead, Texas Girls Collaborative Project

·  Director, Women in Engineering Program

·  Broadening Participation / Diversity and Inclusion Director, Nanomanufacturing Systems for Mobile Computing and Mobile Energy Technologies - NASCENT Center and Center for Dynamics and Control of Materials (CDCM) – an NSF MRSEC

 

The Texas Girls Collaborative Project connects non-profits, K-12 schools, higher education institutions, companies, organizations and individuals across the state of Texas committed to informing and motivating girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Led by the Women in Engineering Program (WEP) at The University of Texas at Austin, TxGCP provides forums, curriculum, best practices and resources to foster collaborations, build capacity of participating organizations, and create a state-wide network of informed and connected informal and formal STEM educators and advocates.

 

The University of Texas at Austin | Cockrell School of Engineering

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