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Follow on Google News | ![]() Harvard-Smithsonian YouthAstroNet selects Rebuilding Broken Places CDC’s Afterschool ProgramYouthAstroNet selects Project Y.E.S.S. (Youth Empowered for Success and Service) Academy, a 21st Century Community Learning Center Program hosted by Rebuilding Broken Places CDC, Goldsboro, N.C. and funded by the N.C. Department of Public Instruction
By: Rebuilding Broken Places CDC Project Y.E.S.S. Academy provides approximately 130 critically at-risk elementary and middle school students, mostly in the central attendance area, with targeted academic support and intervention they need to succeed academically that is Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (S.T.E.M.) focused. Students also have opportunities to participate in healthy, fun, engaging, supervised enrichment activities. “This opportunity aligns with the goals of our program in that we utilize a Project Based Learning model that allow our students to explore S.T.E.M. related careers. Our students are encouraged to find S.T.E.M. in everything.” Our youth have few opportunities to engage in authentic S.T.E.M. investigations that build on the students' intrinsic interests in space science and robotics to increase their interests in both IT (Information Technology) and S.T.E.M. careers. YouthAstroNet is an NSF-funded research project to create and study a nationwide online learning community of grades 5-8 students, educators, and parents and caregivers that features remotely-controlled, online telescopes from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and complementary curricula. Under the guidance of our Program Director, Francine Smith and staff, Project Y.E.S.S. Academy students will use the MicroObservatory Robotic Telescope Network, take their own images of space, explore the Moon, Sun, planets, stars, and galaxies; and then do hands-on activities to investigate more about space, and the technologies that operate the robotic telescopes. “This is an amazing opportunity for our students. Many of them would never have the opportunity to see a telescope of this magnitude. These at-risk middle school aged youth have been selected to be among the first cohort to participate in the Youth AstroNet online learning community. With this acceptance will come access to a wide array of resources for both our youth and our staff.”, said Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, board chair of RBPCDC and founder of Project Y.E.S.S. Academy. End
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