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Tyler Chandler Florida State Director, Afterschool All Stars

Michael Kaurich

Operations Director, STEM Action (Maryland)

Anita Krishnamurthi Vice President, STEM Policy, Afterschool Alliance

Nick Hutchinson, Executive Director, US2020

Director, Professional Development, Association of Science-Technology Centers

James Brown

Executive Director, STEM Education Coalition

MISSION Provide comprehensive after-school and summer

programs that keep children safe and help

them succeed in school and in life.

ORLANDO CHAPTER

3,677 STUDENTS FEMALE 52% | MALE 48%

SCHOOL LEVEL MIDDLE 72% | HIGH 28%

SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS FREE REDUCED LUNCH PROGRAM 88%

ETHNICITY YOUTH OF COLOR 91%

SCHOOLS 13

OUR STUDENTS

Orlando Chapter

• STRATETGIC PARTNERSHIP WITH CITY OF ORLANDO • MAYOR’S SIGNATURE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

OUR IMPACT

Zero arrests over the past 5 years.

Reduced juvenile crime by 42% in partnering schools and neighborhoods.

Deemed “Model Program” status by FL-DOE for 5th consecutive year.

NEED FOR STEM EDUCATION

ON A LOCAL LEVEL

2011-12 Targeted School Sites: 29% of 8th grade students performed at or above the

proficient level in science.

31% of 8th grade students performed at or above the proficient level in mathematics.

On average only 1 teacher per school able to provide high level STEM education.

Less than .05% of all 8th graders moved onto a high school STEM magnet program.

36 middle schools in the district that produced 87 STEM competition teams. Only 3 were from our targeted Title-I schools.

STEM PARTNERSHIP MODEL

NON-PROFIT

CORPORATE GOVERNMENT

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TIERED PROGRAM EXAMPLE

NASA / MIT ZERO ROBOTICS

ASAS Zero Teams:

10-15 students (min. 50% female and 50% minority)

Intensive training for instructors and assistants

Coach – certified teacher

Asst. Coach – ASAS college age counselor studying in STEM field

Mentors – Siemens and Metro PCS engineers

National summer competition that brings together 80+ middle school teams from across the county.

Teams write and design computer codes that control satellites.

Teams compete against each other in a virtual simulator.

State winners then travel to NASA where the codes are uploaded to the ISS.

Astronauts launch the satellites into the zero gravity arena.


TIERED PROGRAM RESULTS

NASA / MIT ZERO ROBOTICS

Finished in the top 3 in the state of Florida region each of the past 3 years.

Won the Florida region in 2014 and defeated 7 other school districts.

Finished 3rd in the nation in 2014.

Only team in the nation to have at least 50% female and 50% minority.

On average, students taking part in competition increased their overall math and science benchmark scores by at least two grade levels.


OVERALL INITATIVE RESULTS

Targeted School Sites

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12.3% of all students entered into a high school magnet program in 2015-16.

An increase from 304 students to 934

students. On average 5 teachers per school now

trained and operating a high level STEM education program

Each site has 2-3 corporate sponsors that provide funding and 10-15 mentors per quarter.

Full STEM Ahead: Afterschool Programs Step Up as Key Partners in Education

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What do kids do in afterschool programs?

• First time we asked questions about STEM in the America After 3PM survey

• Addresses parental perceptions of STEM offerings

• Demand • Access • Satisfaction

This STEM special report funded by:

o Comcast Tech R&D Fund o Noyce Foundation o Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

STEM has taken off in afterschool

• Afterschool is great fit for STEM

• Allows for youth-driven exploration in flexible, supportive environment

• Room for experimentation and failure and time to develop strong relationships with mentors

Parents WANT afterschool STEM

Parents not only report their children are getting STEM opportunities but also strongly believe that afterschool programs SHOULD offer STEM.

Afterschool STEM ensures fairness across places

Afterschool programs help to build STEM fluency and level the playing field: Children from under-represented populations in STEM – girls, African-Americans, and Hispanics – participate in large numbers.

Afterschool STEM has an impact

Afterschool STEM programs not only excite interest but help children gain STEM skills . Most importantly, they help children come to value STEM and identify with it.

But there is work to be done

• Need for more technology and engineering programs

• Marked scarcity of high-

quality STEM programs in rural areas.

• More support and

professional development needed to expand afterschool STEM programming.

Recommendations

• Increase communications with parents.

• Increase technology and engineering programming available afterschool.

• Strengthen partnerships between larger STEM education community and afterschool providers.

Thank you and join us!

afterschoolstemhub.org afterschoolalliance.org/AA3PM

afterschoolalliance.org/STEM

@afterschool4all

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Informal STEM Education: Public-Private Partnerships and Measures of Success

US2020’s goal is to

dramatically increase the

number of science,

technology, engineering,

and math professionals

mentoring and teaching

students through hands-on

projects, with a focus on

serving underrepresented

communities. We look to

create moments of

discovery—life-changing

opportunities for students

to launch rockets, build

robots, write computer

programs, and explore the

farthest reaches of the

universe. Over the next

year, US2020 will serve

20,000 students in K-12

education with volunteer

support from more than

5,000 professionals in

STEM.

About US2020

16.5 million STEM Professionals

20:1 Ratio of professionals to

STEM teachers

2-3x Greater likelihood that an

upper-income student will

have a mentor

$2,400 Added value generated per

employee volunteer

58%

A Majority of Employees are

Offered Access to Volunteer Programs

Variety of Activities Offered to Employees

Corporate Giving Programs

Employee Donation Matching

Non-Skills Based Volunteer

Opportunities

Employees PTO to Volunteer

Skills-Based Volunteer

Opportunities

Maximizing the Effectiveness of Corporate

Volunteer Programs, CEB Corporate

Leadership Council

1. Manager participation and senior

executive communication do not

drive participation, but

involvement is needed to align

against other objectives

2. Sharing participation measures

does not drive participation, but is

important to track ROI

3. Long-term relationships do not

drive participation, but make

administration easier

4. Company grants to charities do

not drive participation, but help to

build new relationships

What Does Not Drive Participation

Four Surprising Findings:

Maximizing the Effectiveness of

Corporate Volunteer Programs, CEB

Corporate Leadership Council

Site Adoption As of November (closed beta), 134

organizations have submitted volunteer

opportunities on the platform. These

organizations represented 24 cities

across 12 states.

Platform Development Site functions as “Match.com for

volunteers.” New site design includes

mobile optimization, analytics

dashboards, and strategic partnerships

with Nepris and LinkedIn for Good.

Timeline We will launch open beta in January

2016. Following QA testing, we will

implement integration with LinkedIn for

Good and promote site launch via

traditional and social media in

collaboration with Ellis Strategies,

Discovery Communications, and the

White House OSTP.

Leveraging Technology

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