NY STEAM Girls Collaborative: Our Work
The Network for Youth Success promotes informal Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Math (STEAM) learning in New York through the NY STEAM Girls Collaborative. This project focuses on connecting expanded learning time with STEAM expertise from K-12 schools, higher education, and businesses.
The initiative has three major activity areas:
- Maximize access to shared resources within projects, and with public and private sector organizations and institutions interested in expanding girls’ participation in STEAM learning.
- Strengthen capacity of girl-serving STEM organizations by sharing exemplary practice research and program models, outcomes, and products.
- Use the leverage of a network and the collaboration of individual girl-serving STEAM programs to create the tipping point for gender equity in STEAM activity (including opportunities, higher learning, and workforce participation).
Prior to our work with the national Girls Collaborative Project, the Network supported STEM learning in New York through the Expand STEM initiative. To learn more about this initiative, visit the Expand STEM homepage.