Session
2025 Poster
Location
Brigham Young University Engineering Building, Provo, UT
Start Date
5-5-2025 9:55 AM
Description
Although women make up 51% of the U.S. population and underrepresented minorities comprise 32.8%, they are significantly underrepresented in the STEM workforce, accounting for only 35% and 26.6%, respectively (Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, Annual Social and Economic Supplement, 2021). This SEEK project was designed to help close that equity gap by increasing access to hands-on STEM education for children, with a particular focus on engaging girls and students from underrepresented minority groups.* Westminster University, with its strong history of community engagement, proposed to continue engaging in community work with the goal of also establishing a new partnership with Guadalupe School, a K–6 charter school where 96% of families live in poverty and 80% of students are English language learners. NASA funding supported the continuation and expansion of Westminster's hands-on science programming at Title I schools, enhancements to STEM programming at the SLC Public Library, and the launch of new initiatives at Guadalupe School. Additionally, it supported the university's Science Saturday STEM Camps, held on campus, one in the fall for middle school girls and one in the spring for high school students.
Favorite SEEK K-6 Experiments
Brigham Young University Engineering Building, Provo, UT
Although women make up 51% of the U.S. population and underrepresented minorities comprise 32.8%, they are significantly underrepresented in the STEM workforce, accounting for only 35% and 26.6%, respectively (Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, Annual Social and Economic Supplement, 2021). This SEEK project was designed to help close that equity gap by increasing access to hands-on STEM education for children, with a particular focus on engaging girls and students from underrepresented minority groups.* Westminster University, with its strong history of community engagement, proposed to continue engaging in community work with the goal of also establishing a new partnership with Guadalupe School, a K–6 charter school where 96% of families live in poverty and 80% of students are English language learners. NASA funding supported the continuation and expansion of Westminster's hands-on science programming at Title I schools, enhancements to STEM programming at the SLC Public Library, and the launch of new initiatives at Guadalupe School. Additionally, it supported the university's Science Saturday STEM Camps, held on campus, one in the fall for middle school girls and one in the spring for high school students.