STEM Supply Kit Distribution Time
We love our partner teachers, LAUSD coordinators, and our local staff so much. Let me tell you why. Our programs pride themselves with the focus on hands-on and inquiry-based STEM learning experiences. COVID-19 put a kink into how we normally run our programs including the distribution of supplies to classrooms.
The USC Young Scientists Program budgets are set up for students to share supplies in classrooms, not shipping a semester’s worth of supplies to the homes of all 2500 participants.
We had to get creative! We made our curriculum more at home friendly but there were still a lot of supplies we presumed students wouldn’t have. The YSP Team specifically Sabrina Mir put together bulk friendly materials for each grade level and each school.
With funding we received this year from the USC Good Neighbors Campaign, we were able to send STEM supply kits home with students.
Each school chose to receive and distribute these supplies for STEM kits in different ways.
- At Thirty-Second Street Usc Performing Arts, USC Liaison Nelly Cristales volunteer to receive the supplies, put kits together and distributed them to families this past Saturday.
- At Foshay Learning Center, Jasmine Tigolo, 5th grade teacher extraordinaire, opted to receive all of the elementary supplies and put the STEM kits together for our participating families.
- At Norwood Street Elementary, USC liaison Ann Huynh received all the orders and put them together for students as teachers.
- At Mack Elementary, USC Liason Norma Zendejas stepped up to do it for her school.
- At the Dr. Theo. T. Alexander Jr. Science Center school, we shipped the supplies to Angelina Crittenden and Mari Rustebakke who put together the kits and these will be distributed to parents on Thursday with our amazing coordinator Michelle Correa.
Check out some photos of the process at various partner sites and homes below!
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