“I was afraid of numbers, so this was the opportunity to get some extra training, get some extra help over the summer,” said LaTosha Wilson of her participation in pre-college programs at NJIT. “It was a chance to keep me focused.”
Jason Baynes says he was fortunate to have had the opportunity to be part of a pre-college program that exposed him to science and math in many more ways than his school did. In summer 1989, before he entered eighth grade, his mother — then a math supervisor in Teaneck who was always on the lookout for summer programs for her students — enrolled him in a program at NJIT called the Junior High School Urban Engineering Program (JHSUEP).
Stephanie Iring grew up in a working-class community in New Jersey, where, she says, social status and educational inequality were closely related and opportunities for success were limited.
It’s a Thursday morning and Naomi Adjei is a bit tired, having recently finished another 13-hour shift as an obstetrics and gynecology resident at Yale New Haven Hospital. “It’s hard!” she said with a laugh. “The hours are hard. … [But] I’m learning clinical skills. I’m learning surgical skills. … You’re learning content, but also how to be a professional.”
This year marks four decades of NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs (CPCP) providing STEM education and college preparedness to rising fourth- through 11th-grade students in New Jersey. With NJIT Chemical Engineering Professor Emeritus Howard Kimmel as a lead figure in its development, CPCP was founded with the aim to “increase access to scientific and technological fields among traditionally underrepresented populations and to improve the teaching of science and mathematics in secondary and elementary schools.”
The Center for Pre-College Programs at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will be hosting a free STEM leadership forum for superintendents and board members on Thursday, Oct. 3, from 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Campus Center Atrium.
On Monday, March 18, 2019, NJIT will make science competitive yet fun when it hosts TEAMS, an annual science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) competition for middle and high school students that is designed to help them discover their potential for engineering, as well as inspire them to consider careers in the field.
In building upon its deep and close relationship with the city in which it resides, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is partnering with the City of Newark and the Newark Public Schools on two new and important initiatives. NJIT President Joel S. Bloom, Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka and Newark Board of Education Superintendent Roger León announced The Mayor’s Honors Scholars Program and the NJIT/Newark Math Success Initiative (MSI) at a news conference, held Feb. 27 at Newark City Hall.
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