This project will advance efforts to understand and promote practices that increase students' motivations and capacities to pursue careers in STEM by preparing students in high need middle schools for science and math courses, and engineering careers.

More than 300 students high school students participating in STEM, industry-based, out of school, elective, project-based learning, are supported by industry-partners, teachers, and program leaders along with teachers and leaders from their home-school.

More than 300 8-12-year-old children in Seattle will participate in lab studies that a) measure how stereotypes that "boys like this more than girls" affect girls' interest in STEM activities, and b) intervene to counter these real-world stereotypes.

Community college students in Texas and high school students from North Carolina, from rural, urban, and suburban areas, are being engaged in a series of activities where the pose, solve, and share algebra problems related to their STEM career interests

One thousand rural, suburban and urban students, grades 4-5 in MD, VA and DC, will participate in STEM simulation adventures, engineering challenges and writing exercises that include 21st century skill and delivered into classrooms via the cloud.

More than 100 urban and suburban youth grades 9-12 are engaged in a year long after school paid internship program using project-based learning and direct service learning.

In Mobile, AL, 500 Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) students, grades 9-11, participate in a 6-day summer academy that emphasizes leadership, STEM learning, and STEM careers through industry site visits, design challenges, and guest speakers.

One hundred and fifty 10th-11th grade girls in the Promise Zones, Governor-designated STEM Community, and COSTEMA, Oklahoma, participate in STEM/Forensic career-building interventions (e.g. job shadowing, mentoring, internships, and research fellowships).