About the Project

In the 21st century, we’ve seen an evolution in education that has gone from Project-Based Learning to STEM to STEAM. Out of this evolution, we now have the makerspace movement that gives students the ability to create whatever they can imagine and prepare themselves with skills for jobs that haven’t been created yet. This grant will expand our current after-school program to include a C-STEM makerspace as well as bolster our teachers’ ability to teach STEAM curriculum with the educational goals of supporting the 4 C’s: Collaboration, Communication, Creativity, and Critical Thinking as well as enriching the math and science state standards. With help from UC Davis C-STEM, we plan to give our current “STEM Den” science room a makeover and turn it into a C-STEM makerspace where students can work in teams on various projects of their own design.