Dublin Students Found National STEM Education Group
DUBLIN, CA — Dublin students have founded a national initiative called Project Catalyst to help underrepresented groups excel in STEM studies and careers.
Founders Raman Arora and Aditya Lagu went to Fallon Middle School together, though Lagu moved to Georgia right as Raman was starting Dublin High School. They kept in touch, and felt that each of their schools did not offer sufficient opportunities for students to learn about career pathways into STEM.
“This was especially concerning given that few schools offer specific engineering or biomedical pathways, leading to a majority of students being ignorant of the vast number of career opportunities available and thus unprepared to pick majors and decide their careers. This led them to create an organization where they can assist the public in getting access to such resources, igniting true change in communities,” Project Catalyst said in its mission statement.
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They launched Project Catalyst, which currently has branches in the Bay Area, Georgia, and New Jersey. The Bay Area branch has hosted engineering workshops at Fallon Middle School and the Alameda County Library, while the Georgia branch hosted a workshop at the Georgia Institute of Technology, in partnership with the Bridge to Employment program. They’ve also partnered with a number of other organizations to work on new seminars and workshops, including TeachStemAfrica, Asante, Girls Inc. and more. They have also worked with the World Federation of Engineers to facilitate workshops abroad.
They also posted free online courses at projctcatalyst.com, which contains over 11 units with over 50 different lessons.
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