STEM

Inglewood Girl Scouts Earn Prestigious Gold Awards

Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles (GSGLA) announced that Girl Scout Kennedy W., a recent high school graduate from Da Vinci Communication High School, and Girl Scout Mishari P., a recent high school graduate from Morningside High School, have earned Girl Scouting’s highest honor, the Gold Award.

L.A. County Sponsors 2nd Annual Tech Empowerment Day

On Wednesday, October 4, Los Angeles County hosted the 2nd Annual Tech Empowerment Day at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The private invitation-only event provided 6,000 middle and high school students from across the county with the opportunity to learn more about science, technology, engineering, and math.

Jamani King, Stimulating STEM program manager (Stimulating STEM)

Lack of exposure and not knowing what’s available are the major obstacles between students of color and careers in the Science Technology Engineering and Math fields, said Jamani King, outreach coordinator and manager of the Stimulating STEM program initiated this summer by King, USC’s Information Sciences Institute and Amazon.

Destiny’s Child Kelly Rowland Kicks off Disney’s Dreamers Academy

Kelly Rowland proved an inspiration to 100 young and impressionable students who descended upon Disney World for the four-day 2022 Disney Dreamers Academy. Serving as this year’s celebrity ambassador for the program, Rowland led the students – called Dreamers – and others in a parade along Main Street in the Magic Kingdom. “This program really touches me,” Rowland declared. “I know how important it is, especially for students of color, when you think of the STEM aspect of this. We need STEM and STEAM because there’s such a big void there.”

Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation Launches Science of Baseball Home Kits to Address Learning Loss

The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation (LADF), in partnership with Science of Sport, announced today the distribution of 100 at-home Science of Baseball Kits to support students from Tibby Elementary School in the Compton Unified School District, and the Girls Academic Leadership Academy (GALA) and Boys Academic Leadership Academy (BALA), which are the first only all-girls and all-boys public STEM academies in all of the Los Angeles Unified School District and the state of California. To support the demands on teachers with distance learning and the need to provide STEM resources, LADF and Science of Sport are providing monthly teacher trainings and classroom visits, “Dugout Chats,” from the Dodgers’ Baseball Operations team focused on careers in STEM.