About the Project

We would like to foster the minds of our diverse thinkers, inventors, and change makers by growing their STEM identity. We want our learners to visualize themselves as scientists, mathematicians, engineers, coders, or other related fields as well as feel a sense of empowerment that STEM is around them in their daily lives. Activities we hope to provide are responsive, thought-provoking experiences that spark curiosity and values what our learners think and have to say. With inquiry and purposeful play, we’d like to encourage and empower children to demonstrate agency for learning as they wonder, explore, discover, hypothesize, and experiment to grow their understanding of the world they live in. Being intentional will help students relate their experiences and what makes them who they are to those of people in STEM related fields. By seeing role models who may come from similar backgrounds, at an earlier age, it may play a crucial role in the types of interests they might want to pursue in the future. Having access to science, math, and technology resources, tools, and materials will help us achieve our goal to immerse students in STEM activities that follow the engineering and design processes as well as mathematical talks, routines, and investigations, providing time and space to wonder, question, think critically, problem solve, and investigate ideas further to understand and learn concepts deeper. With intentional moves, we can help our students cultivate their STEM identities, encouraging equitable success, and retention of learning for all students.