Are you a STEM professional interested in supporting youth? Join the STEM Mentor Program and mentor one of our STEM Signing Day scholarship honorees! Learn more and apply at

Calling all Co-op Members who work at Museums, Cultural, and STEM Institutions! Our June MCSI Sector-Specific Meeting is on June 10th, from 3:00-5:00pm, at the Lincoln Park Zoo. Join us and discuss community engagement! Click here to register:

ACT Now Illinois has created a policy brief examining the state of STEM in afterschool in Illinois, with data collected over the past two years and recommendations to strategically grow STEM in OST. Click here to read the report:

Calling all Chicago STEM organizations! We want you to submit an Ecosystem-to-Ecosystem (E2E) session proposal for the National Convening! Deadline for submission is May 10th! Click here to learn more:

Calling all Co-op members who work at museums, cultural, or STEM institutions! We are having our next MCSI Sector-Specific Meeting on Monday, April 22nd, from 3:00-5:00pm at the Field Museum! Click here to learn more and register:

Registration is live for the 2024 STEM Learning Ecosystems Community of Practice (SLECoP) convening as we come together to enact Access in Action. This fantastic event will be held here in Chicago! Click here to register:

Over spring break, some of our Co-op partners came out and participated in Austin Spring Forward, a week of events for Austin youth organized by The Austin Experience! For more information, check out @theaustin_experience on instagram or go to

Calling all Co-op members! The March STEM Co-op Meeting will be on Tuesday, March 19th, from 10:00-11:30am on Zoom. Click here to register:

Calling all Co-op members who work at museums! The Museum and Cultural Institution Sector-Specific STEM Co-op Meeting will officially be on Monday, March 18th, from 3:00-5:00pm at the Museum of Science and Industry. Click here to register:

Only 2 days left for high school seniors to submit STEM Signing Day Scholarship applications!! If you know any Chicago or Gary seniors, tell them to learn more and apply at There’s still time to get those applications in!!

Only one week left for high school seniors to submit STEM Signing Day Scholarship applications!! If you know any Chicago or Gary seniors, tell them to learn more and apply at

High school seniors have 2 weeks left to submit STEM Signing Day Scholarship applications!! If you know any Chicago or Gary seniors, tell them to learn more and apply at

Calling all Co-op members who work at colleges or universities! We are holding our rescheduled College and University Sector-Specific Meeting on February 28th, from 1:00-3:00pm, at 5706 S University Ave. For more information and to register, go to

Our 2023 STEM Signing Day Chicago and Gary honorees are studying a wide range of STEM fields! If you or students you know are planning to pursue a STEM degree, go to to learn more about this scholarship opportunity. Applications close February 29th!

Last week, the Boeing team held a roadshow at the Gary Area Career Center! Roughly 40 students attended this event, and all had a wonderful time learning about aerospace engineering and exercising their design, collaboration, and communications skills.

Thank you to all the high schools that hosted roadshows this season! We can’t wait to bring roadshows to more CPS schools next year!.

The Boeing and Project Exploration teams wrapped up their 2023-2024 Chicago Roadshows with Fenger and Michele Clark High Schools! These events taught almost 60 students about aerospace engineering while also helping them strengthen collaboration and design skills.

Our 2023 STEM Signing Day Chicago and Gary honorees went all over for college! If you or students you know are planning to pursue a 4-year degree, 2-year degree, or trade certification in STEM, go to to learn more about this scholarship opportunity!

Do you know any 18-24 year olds interested in doing paid STEM education work? Tell them to apply to be a STEAMbassador! Applications are still open but are about to close, scan the QR code or click this link to learn more about this program:

Filling out the STEM Signing Day Scholarship Application? Check out these tips from the STEM Signing Day team! If you want more application support or have any questions, email stemsigningday@projectexploration.org.