Ignite Afterschool

Calling All Program Directors!
What do afterschool and summer programs budget for STEM PD and Training? Help the OST field find out!
 Take this brief (7-minute) Program Director survey offered by the National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST)
 Contribute to important research on OST STEM PD and Training
 Link to Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ProgDirSurveyCostofSTEMPD

As the school year ends, summer opens the door to experiences young people don’t always get during the school year. This is when they can try things for the first time, like building robots or coding an app to solve real-world problems.
These moments help young people build confidence, explore what they’re interested in, and start to see where STEM can take them.
That’s why we’re working with partners across the field, including the National Summer Learning Association, to help programs design summer experiences that connect to real career experiences and skills.
We recently shared tools and insights from STEM Next’s Career-Connected Learning Framework at NSLA’s Summer Planning Bootcamp. You can find all the resources we covered in the Summer Bootcamp
Resource Toolkit here: https://bit.ly/4nE3urm

As the school year ends, summer opens the door to experiences young people don’t always get during the school year. This is when they can try things for the first time, like building robots or coding an app to solve real-world problems.

These moments help young people build confidence, explore what they’re interested in, and start to see where STEM can take them.

That’s why we’re working with partners across the field, including the National Summer Learning Association, to help programs design summer experiences that connect to real career experiences and skills.

We recently shared tools and insights from STEM Next’s Career-Connected Learning Framework at NSLA’s Summer Planning Bootcamp. You can find all the resources we covered in the Summer Bootcamp

Resource Toolkit here: https://bit.ly/4nE3urm