Community Engagement Core - 2023 Community Grant Program Award Recipients
The Community Engagement Core (CEC) is pleased to announce the award recipients of their 2023 Community Grant Program. We are looking forward to starting the New Year with new partnerships and opportunities for meaningful community engagement. You can read a brief description of each recipient’s projects below, but we encourage you to use the hyperlinks to learn more about their organizations.
Triangle Land Conservancy--Pathways: Into Nature: A fellowship for high school students that introduces them to environmental science topics, professionals, and career opportunities. Fellowship was designed to address lack of diversity in environmental organizations and recruits low-income students of color to that end.
Science Happens 4 Me--STEM on the Move: An afterschool and summer program, which aims to improve STEM literacy in K-12 students across several counties. The project features a mobile laboratory, which will travel between schools and is meant for low-income and rural communities.
Student Action with Farmworkers--Into the Fields: Training students to creatively engage farmworkers around heat stress: Through this project, SAF will use art to educate migrant farmworkers, farmworker youth members and their families, student interns, and allies about the impact of climate change on farmworkers and the need for heat stress standards for field workers in NC.
For Girls Like Quaneisha Mentoring Program--Bridging the STEM Gap: Girls and STEM: A short project designed to introduce young girls to a variety of STEM concepts. Using several community partner organizations, students will rotate through stations with hands-on, age-appropriate activities and be given STEM kits to take home.
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