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STEM-on-the-Go Mobile Digital Fabrication Vans promote transdisciplinary STEM learning through visits to locations in the DSEC hub regions. Programming includes STEM career explorations, including the integration of AI with digital fabrication.
The STEM Professional Learning Community provides practical professional development for STEM educators. Members of the professional learning community are invited to field trips and institution visits organized for the STEM Student Learning Community. This enables them to interact with students outside the classroom and create personal connections.
STEM Saturdays are themed days where students are exposed to a specific topic aligned with activities to create a big build to take home and tinker with through exploration. The topics vary each month.
The STEM Student Learning Community supports STEM majors at PGCC by offering academic skills workshops, experiential learning opportunities, trips to STEM facilities, and visits to potential transfer institutions.
The STEM Student Program is a 5-month hybrid STEM camp program for middle and high school students. The program integrates theater arts with STEM content to promote creativity, literacy, innovation, and STEM identity.
The STEM Student Research Group provides opportunities for student research. The goal of this program is to expose undergraduate students to authentic research. This program is held primarily during the academic year; however, the possibility to continue undergraduate research into the summer term exists. Students participating in this research opportunity meet weekly during the fall and spring semesters. Students can present their research at student poster sessions in the local area.
The STEM Teacher Program is an 8-month hybrid program that helps educators teach STEM content by emphasizing each component—Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics—through an artistic, student-centered framework. The program uses the curriculum from the STEM Student Program.
STEMKAMP is a 5-day camp held each summer in locations throughout the country. Military-connected students in grades 3–8 participate in hands-on, low-tech, inquiry-based STEM content with a creative theme developed each year. The STEMKAMP approach encourages student persistence through failure and problem solving.
Sinclair STEM Summer Camp brings together students rising to their 11th and 12th year of high school or starting their first year at Sinclair after high school graduation to participate in a program that prepares them for success in their postsecondary education in STEM. Participants gain college and career readiness skills, learn about supports at Sinclair, improve their math skills, and increase their awareness of STEM careers and pathways.
The Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge (JIC) annually rewards 300 middle school student semifinalists in the Society’s middle school STEM research competition. Students receive $125 each through the society’s partnership with DoW STEM.