The Essence of The ILLEST Lab The Informal Learning Linking Engineering Science and Technology (ILLEST) Lab serves as a beacon for creativity, collaboration, and mentorship for the West Philadelphia community. Our programming efforts are focused on science, technology, engineering, arts/advocacy/access, mathematics (STEAM) competencies, with a direct foundation in arts, advocacy, and access for all minoritized populations. We hope to inspire K-16 minoritized participants in the West Philadelphia Community to explore hands-on activities within a welcoming learning environment and provide them with the connections, resources, and competencies to be successful in their own chosen career paths. We value the cultural insights and prior experiences that students bring into the ILLEST lab. The lab uses a culturally sustaining framework in order to facilitate an open, informal STEAM learning environment that supports and embraces minoritized populations and reinforces students’ knowledge in STEAM found in their everyday life and cultural experiences. What We Do We provide our students and the surrounding community with a supportive learning environment focused on STEAM learning and programming. Our workshops and programming are designed to support and advocate culturally sustaining teaching through curricular design, reflection, and participant feedback. The ILLEST Lab intentionally designs STEAM projects and spaces to empower minoritized participants to share stories and express their voices. We challenge participants to expand their understanding of creative and cultural expressions by providing just-in-time access to professional tools to hone their competencies and confidence. Our direct outcome is to support students in the transfer of their acquired knowledge and skills to redesign, regenerate, and rebuild structures of their communities for sustainable growth.
The ILLEST Lab的外部链接
3401 Market St
US，Pennsylvania，Philadelphia，19104
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We are excited to announce a new collaboration with University of Houston and Jerrod Henderson on National Science Foundation (NSF) #AISL project entitled "Collaborative Research: Identifying Features of Informal Engineering Programs that Foster Youths' Engineering Identities!" Iterating on existing work of St. Elmo Brady STEM Academy, a longstanding program that provides engineering experiences for predominantly Black and Latine communities in Houston's 2nd and 3rd Wards, this research will explore how aspects of this informal engineering environment support the engineering identities of participating youth and their families. Drexel University's School of Education ExCITe Center at Drexel University #engineeringidentities #broadeningparticipation #informaleducation #suppportingfamilies https://lnkd.in/e39v5fmv
Congratulations to Drexel University's School of Education Dr. Bernard Hall on being awarded funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities that will support the curation of the "Hip-hop as Humanities: Counterstories for the Canon, Classroom, & Country" Summer Institute for K-12 Teachers... a collab between Dr. Hall, Kareem Edouard, and The ILLEST Lab.
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New research coming out of The Lab... #TheILLEST For the Black teachers in this study, their impetus for learning and authoring teacher of engineering identities was motivated by their commitment to providing their students with alternate perceptions of self; imaginings where "being smart, being Black, living and attending school over East, and STEM" could all be interconnected and not seen as an anomaly. #BlackTeachers #EngineeringEducation https://lnkd.in/eANuj3cu Christopher Wright, Ph.D. Monet H. Eli Tucker-Raymond Kareem Edouard Sinead Meehan Tajma Cameron George Schafer