By Rachael Reagan | read it > Wester Elementary students got hands-on experience as Learning Undefeated’s Mobile STEM Lab visited Lubbock. Desurae Matthews is the education program lead for Learning Undefeated. She describes it as a life-changing career and educational opportunity for kids in kindergarten through eighth grade. The Texas Mobile STEM Lab, a product…
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By Emily Bjorklund | read it > GRAHAM, Texas (TNN) – If you’re driving by Graham Junior High School this week, you’ll notice a big blue trailer sitting in the gymnasium parking lot. Inside: a hands-on mobile STEM experience that travels all across the state bringing that kind of education to rural school districts. “It’s…
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How Youth Are Changing the Face of STEM and The World Do you dream of changing the world? All around kids are finding innovative ways to change the course of science, technology, engineering, and math. Students are inventing new technologies that save lives, restore the environment, build connections, and so much more. The best part?…
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Celebrating Women’s History Month with a Look into the History Behind Women in STEM Over the last decade women have slowly but surely gained recognition for their contributions to the STEM field. The demand for talent in STEM has increased tenfold over the last ten years with the number of women in the field following.…
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The Defense Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) Education Consortium (DSEC), supported by U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), has selected four new organizations — including Learning Undefeated — to include in DSEC’s Innovation Bloc Funding for 2021. The selected programs will support the Department’s efforts to strengthen career pathways among military-connected students and groups traditionally underrepresented in STEM, as well as one of its modernization priorities, biotechnology.
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Learning Undefeated brings lessons to students in rural and underserved school districts By Joanne Bloomstein | Diversity in Action [March 202] read it > Since 1997 — and throughout a global pandemic — Learning Undefeated has driven specially outfitted buses, tractor trailers and shipping containers to school parking lots in 18 states including Maryland, Texas…
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WUSA-9 (DC) | More than two weeks after D.C. announced a pilot program to partner with churches to better distribute vaccines to underserved communities in the city, a second church has been added to join the initiative. So far, 321 people have been vaccinated during the program’s three clinics, according to DC Health. Outreach is done by church volunteers and community partners to congregants and residents in the community to sign them up for vaccine appointments.
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USA Today | Churches have often been a cornerstone in the fight against inequities and a trusted source of information and guidance during troubled times.During the pandemic, vaccinations have become the latest public service in a health and economic crisis that has seen places of worship offer canned food, clothing, housing and other assistance. Outside, a teal mobile unit was parked near the fellowship hall. The unit provided by Learning Undefeated is usually a science lab offering students STEM lessons in underserved communities.
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Sojourners | Churches are part of communities; neighbors are familiar with them. They go to services there, they’ve gotten married there, they’ve buried their elders there. It’s critical we have community pillars like this that are safe places, safe havens where people can get vaccinated. That’s what congregations are now helping to do.
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WTTG (Fox-5, DC) | DC Health’s plan is to give out a hundred additional doses on Saturday to residents who have pre-registered to get the vaccine. Dr. LaQuandra Nesbitt “It’s extremely important to me that our residents in Wards 5, 7, and 8 takes the same advantage to get the vaccine as everyone else. And if that means that we partner with members of the faith community to bring the vaccine to their places of worship, and that they have the opportunity to be ambassadors for the vaccine, we’re willing to make those partnerships happen.”
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