Tulsa Regional STEM Alliance

TRSA collaborates closely with more than one hundred partners across the community to ensure youth have access to excellent STEM experiences beyond the school day. In 2022, collaborations with seven community partners as part of the North Tulsa STEM Hub created 907 youth experiences and ten out-of-school events. Forty-nine partners received grants totaling $142,285 to support after-school programs, summer camps, and family night experiences. Through the extensive collaborations, youth evaluations indicated statistically significant positive changes in all 21st-century skills and attitudes toward STEM, including how students see themselves as a STEM person.

TRSA works to create opportunities and conditions for our partners to meet their mission by promoting evidence-based learning opportunities, evaluation services, networking, and continuous improvement. In 2022, new collaborations aimed at creating the infrastructure for digital badges that will be offered to youth across the ecosystem. For the initial year, alignment with existing provider partners was prioritized so that the resulting badges would be easily and meaningfully incorporated into their existing projects and valued by providers, youth, post-secondary institutions, and employers alike.

TRSA provides extensive professional learning opportunities to empower and equip PK-12 teachers and informal educators to bring high-impact learning opportunities for their students. In 2022, programs such as Exponential Growth, Code.org, and SENSEational Science, and 33 additional professional development experiences served 599 educators from 89 school districts, totaling 4,259 hours of hands-on professional learning for educators across the greater Tulsa region.

other various programs conducted

through 2022 including summer and

school year stem camps, programs,

and competitions.