STEMCees is a three-year design research project that aims to design and study learning ecologies for middle school youth that integrates computational making practices, interdisciplinary STEM learning, and cultural and expressive practices from hip-hop. The 60-hour implementation took place in three organizations that serve youth from communities of color in Gary, Indiana; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Investigators from Drexel University, Boston University, Olin College of Engineering, and Tufts University will lead the design and research across the three sites. It also seeks to develop and research a model in which sites across the country develop their own hip-hop computing projects and share them in a cyber cypher. Although the project aims to produce findings from research, it will reach approximately 300-400 youth. Research questions focus on what elements of the model contribute to youth learning in regards to computational making practices, physics, mathematics, and the ways in which they develop identities as STEM and CS learners and doers.