Home & Community Workgroup
STRATEGY - Increasing access to STEM education and careers in the home and community.
LONG-TERM OUTCOME
Out-of-school time programs providing high-quality and culturally responsive STEM opportunities are accessible to all girls and Black and Latinx Philadelphia students.
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SHORT-TERM OUTCOMES
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Philadelphia OST providers have access to frameworks to define and measure high-quality and culturally responsive STEM programming.
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​​Information on high-quality STEM programs and opportunities (including ​OST programs, internships, scholarships, etc.) is readily available to all Philadelphia families and community members
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​​Free resources for STEM in-home education are accessible to all Philadelphia families and communities
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​​Wrap-around, supportive services are readily available to all girls and Black and Latinx Philadelphia students accessing high-quality and culturally competent STEM programs in all Philadelphia neighborhoods.
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MEDIUM-TERM OUTCOMES
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Philadelphia OST providers adopt consistent frameworks to define and measure high-quality and culturally responsive STEM programming.
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Utilization of high-quality STEM programs and opportunities (including OST programs, internships, scholarships, etc.) increases among girls and Black and Latinx Philadelphia students
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​Utilization of free resources for STEM in-home education increases among girls and Black and Latinx Philadelphia students or their families.
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​​Utilization of wrap-around, supportive services (accessed via high-quality and culturally competent STEM programs in all Philadelphia neighborhoods) increases among girls and Black and Latinx Philadelphia students and their families​
Co-Chairs
Manager of Outreach, Education & Research
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
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OST STEAM Coordinator
Congreso de Latinos Unidos, Inc.
High-quality and Culturally Competent
Out-of-School STEM Framework
In alignment with the long-term goal that Out-of-School time (OST) programs providing high-quality and culturally responsive STEM opportunities are accessible to all girls and Black and Latinx Philadelphia students, the Home & Community Workgroup is creating a tool for providers to adopt consistent frameworks which will help define and measure high quality and culturally competent STEM programming. This tool is based, among other sources, on the Access to STEM Framework from the Million Girl Moonshot, a movement of STEM Next Opportunity Fund. Our aim is for this tool to evolve into a rubric that will give OST programs a standard to progress towards.
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The Workgroup is currently hosting guided workshops with OSTs from the greater Philadelphia area to validate the framework.
