UNLOCKING POTENTIAL • OPENING MINDS • CREATING PATHWAYS

Our goal at FAME, Inc. is to prepare and motivate students to pursue and succeed in STEM fields of study. Through two successful out-of-school and after-school initiatives, we expose both high performing and “at risk” students to cross-curricular, project-based STEM learning.

Our long-standing academic enrichment initiative addresses the national persistent need to motivate and prepare under-represented minorities and girls to pursue STEM-related fields and succeed in a STEM career.

STEM activities include:

• Summer & school year Core STEM Enrichment
• STEMulate® Change Outreach
• FIRST Robotics for middle & high school students
• College skills prep and course selection workshops
• ​Peer counseling & role models
• ​Job readiness & life skills workshops

Why Stem?

Statistics from the US Bureau of Labor and Census state that there will be an estimated 8.65 MILLION US STEM jobs by 2019. Of these jobs, 59% will require post-secondary education, and while 85% of 8th graders plan to complete post-secondary education, in reality, only 30% enter college.

Furthermore, there continues to be a lack of engineers and scientists in America, and in particular a lack of minorities and women in STEM related professions. Yet the STEM workforce is crucial to America’s global innovative strength and competitiveness.​