STEM Labs
Since PAGE’s program beginnings in 2010, participants have enjoyed our many learning opportunities in the humanities. Storytelling through the arts and humanities has provided a way for girls to learn new literacy and research skills, to connect using new digital tools, and to develop new understandings of the places they call home.
Late in 2021, we were proud to announce a deepening of our investment in STEM learning opportunities for girls. Over three years, we will expand with new STEM Labs, supported by full-year Staff, summer Interns, and Project Facilitators: scientists (biologists, astronomers, botanists, environmentalists) along with scientific illustrators and photographers.
Our new PageLabs will engage girls in creative, hands-on ways with science and technology. Working with real scientists and connecting science with the arts and humanities will support girls’ STE(A)M learning journeys.
We hope that our STEM Labs will also inspire girls in Appalachia to consider college studies and careers in science and technology. We hope you will follow our story over the next three years as PAGE students join girls and young women across the globe who study and build their worlds through science.
Heritage Garden
Girls learned in a pop-up garden classroom through planting and using Illustrated Lab Journals to ask questions and record their observations. Middle School Science teachers Jamie Calloway and Lindsey Montgomery and Lucy Lowe, a local biologist with family roots in the Spring Creek farming community, served as Project Facilitators for this new STEM Lab.
See this projectWe are deeply grateful for grant support from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Student STEM Enrichment Program (SSEP), which has made possible this expansion of STEM learning opportunities for girls in Appalachian North Carolina.