STEAM & Social Justice Initiative
Recruiting High-Schoolers
NATIONWIDE | VIRTUAL | PAID
Dear Society for Science Community:
The Aspen Institute Science & Society Program in partnership with Coda Societies would like to invite you to participate in our nationwide initiative linking STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Math) disciplines and social justice. Our goal is to position societally minded youth as leaders and innovators who will push science forward in the 21st century.
Our Future Is Science features an extracurricular mentorship program in which high-school students (Mentees) and STEAM graduate students (Mentors) will:
Join a mentorship team that explores the links between science and social justice through our multi-faceted and multi-media curriculum and mentor e-toolkit
Attend community talks with scientists working at the intersection of STEAM disciplines and social justice
Be motivated to enact societal change through science-based solutions through a capstone project
Mentees and mentors will be compensated with a stipend for their participation. Prior social justice experience is not required for consideration or participation. We only ask that you be open to exploring connections.
Please share this opportunity with your networks, especially parents and teachers of high-school students and STEAM graduate students. Applications are due September 15, 2022.
Apply to be a Mentor (graduate STEAM student
Apply to be a Mentee (high school student)
The Aspen Institute Science & Society Program serves as a laboratory to test ideas and approaches that help explain, connect, and maximize the benefits of science for public good. The primary audiences for our work are community leaders, science communicators, current and future scientists, and the general public. We leverage the established assets, networks, and platforms of the Aspen Institute to convene and mobilize these groups to build bridges between them.
Coda Societies is a firm that drives the design and development of citizen-centered infrastructures, services, and organizations worldwide. Its international team of urban planners, architects, policy-makers, economists, designers, creatives, entrepreneurs, and lawyers uses participatory design and systems thinking to develop modular systems that lead to sustainable and positive outcomes for all.
