Friends of Saturday Academy

Summer camps: full-day, full-week summer camp program offered. 25 camps ran serving k-12 grade students for a total of 277 individual students reached. 61% qualified for free-and-reduced lunch. Saturday Academy (sa) provide more than $25,000 in scholarship support and tuition assistance. Camps took place at the university of portland.

School residency program: offered 66 after-school residency's in 29 schools across 5 districts in Oregon and southwest Washington. Sa served 744 students of which 79% were historically and systemically excluded.

Career pathways - ase and steam career tracks: the apprenticeships in science and engineering (ase) program places high school students in eight-week, full time summer internships with a mentor in a business, government agency, or university laboratory whose work is in the areas of science, technology, engineering, or math. Applicants (over 400 students annually) have workshop opportunities to learn college and job-finding skills such as crafting an essay, cover letter, or being interviewed. During the internships, students are exposed professional stem careers, enabling them to make choices about high school classes, college, and career trajectories. This program executed 73 internships in fy23.

Steam career tracks: steam career tracks supported a cohort of 19 students in 9-12 grade. 82% were from historically and systemically excluded communities and 61% qualified for free and reduced lunch. Students explored key social emotional learning units alongside workshops that introduced them to a wide range of professions intersecting science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics. This program was offered entirely free of charge.