STEMentors Silicon Valley
We envision equitable access to quality STEM mentoring opportunities in Silicon Valley, building empowerment and career success one student at a time.
STEMentors Silicon Valley Our Mission
STEMentors Silicon Valley is the coalition of community and civic organizations, educators, and employers committed to helping under-served middle schoolers gain access to and persist in STEM opportunities.
About Us
Silicon Valley’s Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) related workforce does not represent the diversity of its population. STEM mentoring can be an important lever for sparking the inspiration that leads students to pursue jobs in science and tech, and we believe that it should be as widely available to and utilized by girls, low-income students and underrepresented students of color as it is for other students. The team at STEMentors Silicon Valley seeks to build connections between the non-profit, corporate, government, and education sectors as a step towards making a greater collective impact on the diversifying STEM.
Our Goals
Planning for a greater collective Impact
The individual efforts in Silicon Valley have potential to make an exceptional impact on STEM engagement separately. Our combined effort even more so.
Engaging Underserved Communities in STEM
We compile information on the schools in need in Silicon Valley. By working together with mentoring programs in Silicon Valley, we can determine what areas remain in need.
Supporting
Non-Profit Mentoring programs
By connecting non-profits to funding opportunities and mentor providing institutions, we seek to increase the opportunity for mentoring programs in Silicon Valley to prosper.
STEMentors Silicon Valley Team
Lori Silverman
Executive Director
Dr. Lori Silverman has worked in higher education for over 18 years where she has received three NSF grants for student success in STEM and founded a startup company focused on improving retention in community college students. Lori, as a naturalized US citizen from Vietnam, is dedicated to closing achievement gaps and increasing diversity in STEM through application of new technology and innovations.
Crystal Nash
Program and Engagement Coordinator, AmeriCorps VISTA
2018-2019 advisory board
Nimisha
Khanduja
Elevate Program Manager, ALearn Silicon Valley Education Foundation
Technology Integration Coach, McKinley Institute of Technology
TOSA, SCUSD
Get Involved
STEM Learning opportunities
(To Mentor and be mentored)
Woodside High School
STEM Pipeline, Mission College
STEM Core, Foothill College
Iridescent
Silicon Valley Children’s Fund
and TeenForce
Science is Elementary
Robotics Education and Competition Foundation
Greene Scholars Program
Association for Women in Science
Palo Alto Chapter
ACE Mentor San Francisco Bay Area
iMentor
resources
Woodside High School
Professional Development Programs
A Black Education Network
National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Silicon Valley Chapter
Santa Clara Unified School District
Seeds of Change, The Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University
Global Sphere Network
National Inventors Hall of Fame
EVENTS
Professional Development Programs
A Black Education Network
National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Silicon Valley Chapter
Santa Clara Unified School District
Seeds of Change, The Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University
Global Sphere Network
National Inventors Hall of Fame
Grant Sources
Professional Development Programs
A Black Education Network
National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Silicon Valley Chapter
Santa Clara Unified School District
Seeds of Change, The Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University
Global Sphere Network
National Inventors Hall of Fame
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STEM can take you to your Possible Self!
During this day long event, STEMentors Silicon Valley as a coalition will be working to connect the mentoring programs involved in the coalition with the students who attend the expo. This will allow students to follow up with their STEM experiences at the expo, throughout the year.
serve with us
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If your want to go far, go together.”
African Proverb
Contact STEMentors Silicon Valley
PSME Division Office, Room 4120
Foothill College
12345 El Monte Rd
Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
USA
650-949-6205
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