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The College of New Jersey’s School of Education collaborated with the Center for Excellence in STEM Education and Medgar Evers College, City University of New York to offer a camp for preservice teachers and kids attending local urban schools. ATOM (Arts and Technology for Optimizing Academic Motivation) is a camp designed to help elementary, middle, and high school students become more aware of science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) career and college options available to them beyond post-secondary education. The program also addresses the need to diversify the teaching profession through recruitment and preparation of teachers of color.

Students, while participating in hands-on problem-solving projects, receive mentoring and coaching from near-peer college students to support their development as independent, reflective learners. Preservice teachers get experience working with diverse learners and professional development to support their pedagogical content knowledge. They participate in professional development so they can develop and lead hands-on lessons.

Last year, for our inaugural camp, 33 K-12 students and 9 Urban Ed teachers participated in the program. We are looking to increase this program by offering it to more students for the spring semester and for a week over the summer in 2023.

Please help us reach our goal of $2,000 to expand our 2022-2023 program.

Thanks To Our Recent Donors!