Science ATL Youth Program

Celebrating our School & Youth Programs

The 2021-2022 year for Science ATL’s School and Youth Programs was full of awe-inspiring and exciting initiatives taken on by dozens of schools in multiple districts across Metro Atlanta. Over 300 students, teachers and STEM professionals worked together to bring impactful STEM outreach to thousands of students, educators, and community members. Their reach spread beyond their own schools, allowing them to provide their communities with unique ways to engage with STEM.

The Georgia Chief Science Officers Program celebrated its fourth year as one of the Metro Atlanta area’s premier STEM leadership programs. 46 CSOs at 22 schools brought a variety of STEM events and activities to more than 2800 students and 900 community members. Students went above and beyond this year, creating partnerships with their districts, universities and corporations to tackle problems at their schools that STEM could address. Check out their action plans below.

CSOs at Paulding County High School hosting a slime making event for more than 100 kindergartners from their feeder elementary schools.

CSOs at Paulding County High School hosting a slime making event for more than 100 kindergartners from their feeder elementary schools.

CSOs at Lovejoy High School created a STEM club to give students more direct access to STEM careers.

CSOs at Lovejoy High School created a STEM club to give students more direct access to STEM careers.

CSOs at Global Impact Academy took their first steps to addressing food deserts in their community by building a school garden and outdoor learning space.

CSOs at Global Impact Academy took their first steps to addressing food deserts in their community by building a school garden and outdoor learning space.

This year also marked the second cohort of the STEM Professional School Partnership Program. 46 educators teamed up with 46 STEM professionals across multiple industries to bring innovative STEM programming to more than 1600+ students in the Metro Atlanta Area. Throughout the year, elementary and middle school students explored STEM careers through hands-on experiments, professional panels and career days, and STEM-themed days and weeks, just to name a few. Check out some of the highlights below.

Student giving presentation on generative art

Forest Park Middle School’s Derwin Binion and NCR’s Bura Iruku explore the intersection between software and art.

Group sitting at table

Marietta Center for Advanced Academic’s Stella Kilpatrick (photographer) and Progress Math’s Tony Dunbar work to modify an art and coding integrated activity for their student George, who has visual and verbal disabilities.

Holding small worms with gloves

McNair Middle School’s Robert Russo and Wundergrub’s Akissi Stokes introduce their students to the world of bugs as sources of protein.

Science ATL is grateful for all of the contributions provided by our students in CSO and our partnerships in SPSP,  and we look forward to the transformative ways they will continue to support the school-to-STEM pipeline.

You can find more information about both the CSO and SPSP programs by checking out their websites:

CSO – ScienceATL.org/CSO

SPSP – ScienceATL.org/SPSP