This project studies the effects of e-mentoring (online mentoring) on underrepresented student mentors and underrepresented high school students living in rural areas.

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

Middle school teachers and students in three rural North Carolina school districts are engaged with school leaders and community members to integrate computational thinking strategies and computer science dispositions into the art and music disciplines

Three hundred middle school youth youth attending schools highly impacted by poverty, with their teachers (n=7), engage in after-school, Saturday, and summer learning that integrates science, engineering, and computing to address environmental problems.

350 youth (grades 2-5), 100 caregivers, 16+ librarians, and 16+ engineers participate in a library education program centered on engaging youth with age-appropriate, technology-rich STEM learning experiences fundamental to the engineering process.