Program areas at STEM Santa Fe
STEM Circles (aka Summer Camps)STEM Santa Fe provides week-long STEM summer camps for girls, boys, and non-binarystudents in grades 7-12. From June 5 to July 21, 2023, we held seven camps with theunique themes of Aviation and Aerospace, Building a Laser Harp, 3D Design and Printing, Patterns: The intersection of Art and Math, Building a Solar Tracker, and STEM Pathways for All. Camps were held at Santa Fe Community College, the Santa Fe Jet Center, Northern New Mexico College in Espanola, Nambe Pueblo, and San Ildefonso Pueblo. We had 112 students register this year, and delivered a total of 3,690 contact hours.
STEM ScaffoldSTEM Santa Fe delivers in-school STEM/STEAM enrichment projects designed to beimplemented with 1.5 hours weekly instruction over eight weeks. The projects align with national Advancement Via Individual Determination and Next Generation Science Standards and build students' programming, engineering, math, analysis, and teamwork skills through themes that include Sun Tracker, Laser Harp, Smart Greenhouse, Heart Drum, and One-Lane Bridge. In the 2023-2024 school year, we served Capital High School, Espanola Valley High School, and the Santa Fe Indian School with 295 students participating in the program, for a total of 3,540 contact hours.
STEM Pathways for Girls (SPFG)STEM Santa Fe offers an inspiring monthly STEM program dedicated to girls and non-binary students in 5th-8th grades. The program kicked off on Nov. 4, 2023, with a day-long conference allowing the students to expand their knowledge of STEM careers and educatioonal requirements (keynote speech,hands-on STEM workshops led by women STEM professionals, The Bradbury (LANL) Challenge Tomorrow trailers and STEAM fair). SPFG extended throughout the school year with 7 monthly two-hour, project-based workshops led by women STEM professionals. Overall, SPFG delivered 870 contact hours.