Pipeline Events

STEMapalooza21

STEMapalooza is designed to promote interest in STEM among San Bernardino County (SBC) youth in grades 4-8 by providing engaging activities facilitated by local industry experts. STEMapalooza activities integrate multiple disciplines and provide students opportunities to see how concepts relate to their world, while encouraging an interest in a future career in a STEM field.

This free virtual experience featured live keynote speakers, STEM lessons with activities that develop essential STEM skills, career exploration opportunities, and informative videos from local industry professionals, STEM-related high school pathways, and STEM-related postsecondary programs.

Cyber IE Girls

The Alliance for Education was proud to partner with the SBCSS Digital Learning team in this year's Cyber IE Girls virtual event. This free event was designed to foster a love for computer science in middle school girls across San Bernardino. With STEM grant funding, the Alliance was able to support students with micro-bit technology they could work with and take home for extended learning.

# of students: 104

# of teachers: 28

# of districts: 12

Alliance funding: $1800

Journey to the Future

In partnership with East Valley SELPA , Journey to the Future was designed for students with IEPs/504 plans in the Inland Empire and their families. It provided opportunities to explore resources and services for life after high school. The event also provided information for students and families about local in-demand careers, the essential skills those require, and the local postsecondary programs that lead to them.

Date: April 16, 2021

# of teachers: 200+

# of students: Approximately 2,800

# of districts: 12 SBC, 10 RivCo

UCR Medical Leaders of Tomorrow

Medical Leaders of Tomorrow (MLT) is a free, one-week, online summer program for students who are currently in 11th grade and attend a high school in San Bernardino County. MLT allows students to explore different health careers and learn tools to enhance educational and career goals. These include:

Presentations on science and health care topics.
Workshops to build study skills.
Participation in leadership and team-building activities.

MLT students also work in teams to create a community health project that brings awareness about prevalent health issues in the local community. Students present their findings on the last day of the program to parents and School of Medicine faculty and staff.

Participating districts:

Apple Valley USD
Chaffey JUHSD
Chino USD
Colton JUSD
Etiwanda USD
Fontana USD
Redlands USD
Rialto USD
Rim of the World USD
San Bernardino City USD
Upland USD
Victor Valley UHSD
Yucaipa-Calimesa JUSD

Date: July 12-16, 2021

# of students: 50 (41 female, 9 male)

HACK OUT BL4CKOUT

In 2021, a custom built, web-based game was developed to be used for online pipeline events, providing another dimension to the online experience and increasing student engagement. The game challenges students' cyber, communication, and critical thinking skills. It includes 4 - 5 mini-games (5-minute challenges) pushed throughout the day of an event, and challenges students to prevent the event from being hacked. The challenges include opportunities to educate in a fun way about industry sectors/salaries/opportunities.

The Alliance for Education plans to deploy this app throughout the year to support SBC STEM related online events.

Hack Out metrics:

Unique User Accounts Created - 5,258
- Grade breakdown
  - 4th grade - 1,080
  - 5th grade - 976
  - 6th grade - 1,481
  - 7th grade - 591
  - 8th grade - 514
  - Unknown - 1077
Sessions Played Across All Users - 11,927
Average Sessions Per User - 1.9
Average Play Time Per User - 37.38 minutes
Badge Completions - 451

Education through Imagination Online STEAM Camp

Alliance for Education partnered with Millionaire Mind Kids and Garner Holt - Education Through Imagination to provide an online virtual STEAM camp on for 124 high desert students, ages 7 - 17. Activity materials were mailed to students homes. The virtual camp was designed for students to explore a variety of engaging concepts in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math. Students got to see behind the curtain on the world of mechanical magic and were taught the fundamentals required to build the most wonderful and fantastic animatronics. The camp emphasized hands-on learning that support students’ imagination, creativity and problem-solving skills. Students took a journey into a world of storytelling and wonder and were inspired to dream and discover in new ways.

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