Featured October 8 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Career-Connected Learning Series: Building Broad Skills to Support Youth in the Workforce Virtual As the modern workforce evolves at an unprecedented pace, durable—or “soft”—skills are increasingly as important as technical skills in high-demand STEM jobs. Helping youth develop these skills is a core strategy of STEM Next’s Career-Connected Learning Framework for Out-of-School Time Providers. In this training, attendees will learn how to weave durable skills into STEM activities … Continued
October 22 @ 5:15 pm - 6:00 pm ACRES Training: Making Math Meaningful Virtual Discover ways to use natural materials to represent math problems, find and understand math in nature, and use math to investigate authentic outdoor math problems in this training let by ACRES. Gain access to a hub of resources to explore, as well as activities you can use immediately. This is a free, LIVE, virtual workshop … Continued
October 23 @ 12:30 pm - 1:15 pm ACRES Training: You Can Create Career Connections and Nurture STEM ID Virtual In this ACRES training, OST staff learn tips and tricks to help them make STEM career connections early on in the school year. Participants experience several easy-to-implement strategies, including a photo elicitation activity, learn about how youth form STEM identities, and then learn how to conduct related activities with youth. This is a free, LIVE, … Continued
Featured November 5 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Career-Connected Learning Series: Developing Career-Connected STEM Activities for Afterschool and Summer Learning Virtual For many youth, afterschool and summer programs are where sparks of interest in science, technology, engineering, and math begin. To help programs turn that interest into career pathways, STEM Next created the Career-Connected Learning Framework for Out-of-School Time Providers. The Framework helps programs explicitly embed career connections into their activities in ways that are practical, … Continued
Featured November 12 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Career-Connected Learning Series: Engaging Families and Communities Part 1 Virtual Families and communities play a vital role in helping young people see STEM as part of their future. In this training session, attendees will explore STEM Next’s Career-Connected Learning Framework … Continued
November 13 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm ACRES Training: Math Games and Fluency Activities Virtual Come engage in fluency math games and activities that support youth in learning math facts and becoming fluent in computation while having fun in the process! This is a free, … Continued
Featured November 19 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Career-Connected Learning Series: Engaging Families and Communities Part II Virtual In this follow-up session to the first Engaging Families and Communities training, attendees will focus on building community partnerships that bring STEM careers to life. Participants will learn how to connect with … Continued
Featured January 21, 2026 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Career-Connected Learning Series: Building Engineering & Awareness in Pre-K and Kindergarten Virtual STEM Next is accelerating our efforts to advance career-connected learning in afterschool and summer learning programs with our Career-Connected Learning Framework for Out-of-School Time Providers. In this training, we will … Continued
