EvolvingSTEM Afterschool Program at the Homewood Community Engagement Center
Abstract
Our EvolvingSTEM (evolvingstem.org) program addresses the critical need for engaging, equitable learning practices that support student success and promote a well-educated, diverse STEM workforce. Pitt Seed funding will support our efforts to provide an afterschool program to underserved students from the Pittsburgh Public School system at the Homewood CEC’s modern laboratory space. Students will design, conduct, and analyze their own bacterial evolution experiment under the guidance of Pitt undergraduate mentors. Student projects will utilize cutting-edge laboratory and computational techniques, including bioinformatic analyses of genomic DNA sequencing data.
Principal Investigator
Vaughn Cooper
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Select Collaborators
Abigail Matela
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Steven Abramowitch
Bioengineering
David Boone
Biomedical Informatics
Cassie Quigley
Instruction and Learning
Daren Ellerbee
Director, Homewood Community Engagement Center
Edwina Kinchington
Science Chair, Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy