Project AIMESS: A STEM Initiative
Project AIMESS is a STEM initiative, or one that teaches a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics curriculum in accordance with President Obama's Change the Equation program. Its goal is to raise awareness and education in STEM education fields and concurrently increase participation in similar activities for those in the Northern Virginia region.
This initiative was founded in 2012 in response to the statewide budget cuts that caused many already underfunded education programs to stop work altogether. Our team believes that all students, regardless of the county, state, or country they live in, should be able to explore the aspects of STEM that interest them and can be provided this opportunity through Project AIMESS.
With interactive, engaging science sessions led by enthusiastic, supportive high school students, students participating in Project AIMESS programs learn more in-depth knowledge than is typically provided in elementary school curricula. Our program runs through the entire school year, meeting once every two weeks at each local elementary school, and at each session, our high school mentors lead a teaching session followed by an engaging activity in which the elementary school students can express themselves as well as learn more about the STEM areas that interest them most. We are currently partnered with Glenkirk Elementary School, but hope to add more schools to this and to be able to grow the interest of promising elementary school students in many more schools in the near future.
This initiative was founded in 2012 in response to the statewide budget cuts that caused many already underfunded education programs to stop work altogether. Our team believes that all students, regardless of the county, state, or country they live in, should be able to explore the aspects of STEM that interest them and can be provided this opportunity through Project AIMESS.
With interactive, engaging science sessions led by enthusiastic, supportive high school students, students participating in Project AIMESS programs learn more in-depth knowledge than is typically provided in elementary school curricula. Our program runs through the entire school year, meeting once every two weeks at each local elementary school, and at each session, our high school mentors lead a teaching session followed by an engaging activity in which the elementary school students can express themselves as well as learn more about the STEM areas that interest them most. We are currently partnered with Glenkirk Elementary School, but hope to add more schools to this and to be able to grow the interest of promising elementary school students in many more schools in the near future.