Join me on this The EdUp Experience webseries EdUp Unplugged, where I have an extremely important conversation with veteran, award-winning retired Virginia public school educator Angela DeHart about the power of mentoring young college bound Black and Brown children for careers in STEM. Angela turned her passion for STEM into a nonprofit organization called the STEM Impressionists (SIP)
According to The National Mentoring Partnership:
• Students with mentors are 52% less likely than their peers to skip a day of school and 37% less likely to skip a class.
• Youth with their mentors are 46% less likely than their peers to start using illegal drugs and 27% less likely to start drinking.
• 76% of at-risk young adults who had a mentor aspire to enroll in and graduate from college versus half of at-risk young adults who had no mentor. They are also more likely to be enrolled in college.
• Mentoring reduces “depression symptoms” and increases “social acceptance, academic attitudes and grades.”
Her student accomplishments are displayed on SIP’s twitter site and include presentations at MIT’s Scratch Conference, ITEEA, George Mason University’s FOCUS camp, Smart Brief Education’s 4th Annual STEM Pathways Summit and her "Cooking Is Stem" TEDTalk,
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