STEM PUSH Network

The Native American Science and Engineering Program (NASEP) at gives high school students a comprehensive understanding of a career in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) fields.

The year-long program connects students with academic professionals and industry representatives from STEM-related interests, gives one-on-one college coaching, facilitates interactive workshops, and family events to effectively prepare students for the college admissions process.

At NASEP students receive necessary information about academic success, and are exposed to different STEM career paths.

https://nasep.arizona.edu/

From hands-on STEM learning to advising to tutoring to near-peer mentorship - STEM PUSH Network members offer invaluable resources and services to our next generation of innovators, problem-solvers and creators.

Meet the 40+ pre-college STEM programs working to prepare all students - especially those most underrepresented - for STEM careers and post-secondary success.

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With the intention of making computer science more approachable, especially for groups historically underrepresented in technology fields, PBS KIDS recently debuted a new animated series: Lyla in the Loop

Seven-year-old, Lyla uses STEM skills like critical thinking to solve challenges in her everyday life - empowering other young people, including Black girls like herself, to see themselves as innovators.

PBS Kids’ Lyla In The Loop Brings Black Girls Into STEM PBS Kids is making strides in computer science education with its new series, Lyla In The Loop, which premiered recently.

🔎 Remembering the WHY behind the launch of STEM PUSH - a National Science Foundation (NSF) INCLUDES Alliance working to broaden participation in STEM. 🔎

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The college admissions landscape has undergone significant transformations recently, placing higher education institutions at an interesting crossroads.

As demographics shift and the needs of students evolve, innovative leaders in higher education are reimagining traditional admissions processes to create more inclusive pathways to college.

We sat down with self-proclaimed systems changer Robert Gould, vice president for strategic enrollment management at Augsburg University, for a broader conversation about inclusive admissions practices.

A Misalignment of Systems: Meeting Student Demand in Higher Education In recent years, the landscape of college admissions has been undergoing a significant transformation. From rapid-paced emerging technologies and skills-based learning trends to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on ending the use of racial categories in college admissions, institutions of higher educati...

Stories have the power to alter broader attitudes and affect behavior. Stories have the capacity change the system.

Download the latest issue of the STEM PUSH Newsletter and get ideas, strategies and examples for using storytelling and strategic communications to expand your mission.

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Over the last four years, STEM PUSH has made strategic communications a key strategy to move systems change in college admissions.

In our latest newsletter, we cover the power of storytelling in sustaining, scaling, and growing our mission of ensuring opportunity for Black, Latine, and Indigenous students in STEM.

https://ow.ly/p2jH50TuG6a

Communicating Impact: Leveraging Storytelling STEM PUSH understands the power of strategic communications and storytelling in sustaining, scaling, and growing our mission of ensuring opportunity for Black, Latina/o/e, and Indigenous students in STEM.

With our Fall convening quickly approaching, let us reflect on our March convening takeaways. We covered:

♠️ College Admissions advice straight from admissions officers
♠️ Practical measurement for practitioners with limited time and resources
♠️ Understanding of accreditation for the first cohort of programs

See what you missed: https://ow.ly/BWyn50ThJNH

March 2024 Newsletter: Co-Creating the Future: STEM PUSH Convenes From Ohio to Florida, to California, to Oregon, pre-college STEM programs from around the nation gathered in Pittsburgh for the Spring 2024 STEM PUSH convening.

Common App has expanded direct admissions efforts with 116 colleges offering proactive acceptance letters to first-generation and low-and-middle-income students.

Common App allows students to apply to more than 1,100 member colleges in one place. STEM PUSH works with Common App to increase the visibility of student experiences in pre-college programs.

https://ow.ly/Wxr450ThByo

Common App to expand direct admissions effort The online portal will offer proactive acceptance letters from 116 colleges during the 2024-25 application cycle.

🤖 AI is reshaping the college admissions process. From helping admissions officers move through hundreds of thousands of applications to students leveraging AI with college essays.

Will this improve equity?
https://ow.ly/xoHt50ThzVw

Colleges are using AI in admissions. How can they do it right? Some colleges receive tens of thousands of applications every year. Admissions officers are turning to Artificial Intelligence to help with the screening. What that could mean for who gets into college and how.

On 8/30, STEM PUSH will join four NSF Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES-funded alliances and the National Science Foundation (NSF) INCLUDES Coordination Hub for a webinar on how Improvement Science to create equitable systems change in STEM.

Each Alliance will discuss how they build effective networks and discuss the challenges of complex systems change.

Join and explore strategies and tips on 8/30 at 10AM PT / 1PM ET
https://ow.ly/EHMS50T734B

Self-evaluation is an important skill for students to learn. In a recent improvement cycle, 31 programs, like Oregon MESA explored equitable approaches to document students' growth and performance.

See what the Network learned about assessment, self-reflection and more: https://ow.ly/cQtk50SWNFc