Future STEM Professionals: National Society of Black Engineers Jr.
Help me give my students, Members of the National Society of Black Engineers Jr., funding for transportation, and be inspired by a visit to North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University and International Museum of Civil Rights.
This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.
My Students
Our school is a diverse urban middle-high school that serves 560 amazing, young scholars from throughout Charleston County, SC. We provide a rigorous STEM-focused, college prep curriculum that offers project-based learning that brings math & science to life through hands-on, real-world based curriculum. While many of our students enroll at the school reading and performing math below grade level, through hard work, determination, and high academic expectations, they are able to graduate on time and ready for college. Over 50% of our students qualify for free and reduced-price lunch.
At our school, we focus on high academic standards and meeting the needs of ALL of our students.
To achieve these goals, we seek ways to provide our students with creative, innovative, engaging, and meaningful learning experiences. As we work to prepare our students to be career and college ready, we strive to do so that is inspiring, encouraging and motivates our students to seek learning that is driven by their curiosity and experiences.
My Project
Scholars will travel to visit North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University to attend an informational meeting and campus tour. They will also meet with North Carolina A & T scholars to understand the demands and rigor of college life while learning about the support systems established to help them achieve success. We will also plan to visit the International Civil Rights Center & Museum to learn about the struggle for civil and human rights and the nonviolent protests of the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins.
This trip is designed to inspire our scholars to increase their commitment and dedication required to achieve acceptance into a rigorous program while gaining exposure to the support systems that will help them achieve success.
This trip is part of our National Society of Black Engineers Jr. program, designed to help promote and develop student interest in STEM career fields. It is also to help provide support in order to increase the number of minority students studying engineering. We want to encourage our students to seek professional careers in engineering or related fields and to understand the opportunities and the work ethic required to pursue these pathways.
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