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Reimagining SMASH
For over 20 years at SMASH, our goal has remained the same – to ensure that every student, regardless of the zip code they grew... Read More
Creating ‘intentional pipeline’: Raytheon supporting STEM program for students of color to help diversify workforce
Two organizations have joined forces with one shared goal in mind: building an “intentional pipeline” to get more students of color into tech. For the... Read More
SMASH Named Winner of the 2020.ORG Impact Awards
SMASH will receive a $5,000 USD donation to the charity of their choice and will be honored today as part of the “10 Days of... Read More
Tech Time: Detroit teen talks fighting through COVID-19
SMASH x Wayne State scholar Arika Harvey talks about surviving her battle against coronavirus as well having some family members who have passed away from... Read More
Tech Time: SMASH Academy expands services amid COVID-19
As COVID-19 has shut down schools and campuses across the country, Local 4 News Click On Detroit covers SMASH Program leveraging virtual technology to adapt... Read More
University of Michigan Engineering Partners With SMASH
We are thrilled to announce that SMASH Michigan will hold its first cohort of 35 students in summer 2020 at University of Michigan Engineering! More... Read More
FREE Morehouse Program Gets High School Students Ready For STEM Careers
SMASH Academy 2020 applications are now open! Our very own SMASH Morehouse Site Director Dr. Brian Garrett gives the full down low on WSB-TV Atlanta.... Read More
All-Male Summer STEM Program Seeks Candidates Of Color for 2020 Class
SMASH Morehouse, an all-male summer STEM program at Morehouse College, seeks candidates of underrepresented communities for 2020 class. More here.
Interview with SMASH Wayne State
Take a listen to SMASH Wayne State scholars and SMASH Midwest Site Director John Ray on stories of their wonderful accomplishments inside and out of... Read More
WVON: The Talk of Chicago – SMASH Illinois Scholars
SMASH Illinois Site Director Tracie Screven and her scholars share some inside scoop about their 2019 SMASH Academy experience. Listen into what drew these scholars... Read More
STEM Learning a ‘SMASH’ at UC Davis
“Before SMASH, I wasn’t really focused on issues going on right now, but Dr. Bronner’s class brought me the awareness of sustainability: social, economic and... Read More
SMASH Illinois, a Free STEM Program for Students of Color Launches
“It’s a STEM program and I really wanted more science and math and engineering,” Torres said. “I’m not really good at math and here they’re... Read More
Getting More Kids in STEM
Minority students have the opportunity to put their stem skills to the test with a free national program that’s made its way to Illinois. Brandon... Read More
At a summer program where community comes first, STEM education thrives
German Jimenez, who will be a junior at a public high school called Life Academy in Oakland this fall, was busy this summer at SMASH... Read More
SIU Carbondale welcomes top minority high schoolers from across the state for STEM camp
“We all know that the face of STEM is not what we want to see,” SIUC Chancellor John Dunn told the students. “We need more... Read More
Google, with second largest philanthropic footprint in Bay Area, sets sights on STEM education
Google.org’s support of SMASH Academy, a three-year STEM-intensive residential college prep program, is one of the avenues the tech giant is investing in the future... Read More
SMASH and Akamai Technologies partner with Northeastern to immerse diverse high school students in stem
Dean of the Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Carla Brodley, emphasizes the multifaceted nature of the partnership with Akamai and SMASH. “We are excited about the... Read More
Seven CCHS students chosen for inaugural STEM Program
“The biggest thing that comes out of this is that the kids that finish the program … over 85 percent of them then go on... Read More
A Guide to Wharton’s Summer Programs- New faces and fresh ideas on campus in the not-so-quiet off-season
SMASH students are prepped in STEM subjects they’ll encounter in college and take intro courses like statistics or economics. U.S. News & World Report has... Read More
WVON: The Talk of Chicago! – Tracie Screven
Tracie Screven is the Site Director for SMASH at Illinois Institute of Technology. She joins WVON to talk about the partnership SMASH has with the... Read More
SIU partners with SMASH Academy to bring STEM opportunities to high school students
Meera Komarraju, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic affairs, said the program is not only focused on science technology, engineering or math, but also helps... Read More
Illinois Schools and Kapor Center Launch All Expenses Paid Illinois SMASH Academy STEM Tech Camp for Teens from Underrepresented Groups
The Kapor Center has already established SMASH academies in California, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. According to the center’s data, every SMASH student graduates high school... Read More
SMASH STEM Program launched in Illinois
SMASH, the signature STEM education program of the Kapor Center, announces SMASH Illinois, its first statewide initiative program partnership with Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois... Read More
Illinois College to Mentor Top Minority Students in Technology
Southern Illinois University Carbondale has teamed up with tech mogul Mitch Kapor to place 70 underprivileged high school students in an all-expense paid STEM camp... Read More
SIUC to mentor Illinois’ top minority students in tech
Southern Illinois University Carbondale leaders stood alongside a Californian tech mogul and Illinois’ new lieutenant governor, Juliana Stratton, in downtown Chicago to announce a program... Read More
SMASH STEM Program Launching in Illinois in Partnership with Illinois Tech, SIU Carbondale and CPASS Foundation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 24, 2019 Contact: Kim Bardakian, 510.499.5723, kim@kaporcenter.org First State-Wide Program Model for Free World-Class STEM Program for Students from Underrepresented Communities... Read More
Wake Up With WURD – LaToya Tufts
LaToya Tufts is the SMASH Wharton Site Director. She joins Wake Up With WURD to talk about the partnership that SMASH has with the Wharton... Read More
Google officially opens new office in Detroit
Tech company grows presence, commitment to Motor City, Michigan; commemorates occasion with $1 million in grants to increase access to STEM education opportunities for underrepresented,... Read More
Houston conference empowers women of color in STEM fields
Late’jah Whittaker has always loved science. She started making robots in the fourth grade. In the fifth grade, she attended her first computer science-based program,... Read More
City of Detroit | Mayor’s Office: Wayne State-based program seeks to close diversity gap in STEM fields
Slowly but surely, Detroit is becoming a hub for technology and innovation. With large-scale STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) conferences such as this month’s... Read More
WJBK Fox 2 Detroit News Visits SMASH Wayne State
WJBK Fox 2 Detroit News visits SMASH Wayne State. Watch here.
Penn Today: At Penn, STEM and business classes mesh for Philadelphia high schoolers
As part of the SMASH Wharton program, 35 students live and breathe college life in the summer, staying for three years in Harnwell College House... Read More
WWJ NewsRadio 950 with Vickie Thomas
Vickie Thomas talks to some of our SMASH Wayne State scholars. Listen here.
Tech Time: Smash STEM Academy at Wayne State University
A learning opportunity for local high school students at Wayne State University — Smash Academy is a five-week STEM camp that take students through biology,... Read More
Wayne State to partner with SMASH, cutting-edge STEM program on initiative for Detroit high schoolers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 4, 2018 Contact: Ashleigh Richelle, 408.387.4353, ashleigh@www.smash.org Darrell Dawsey, 313.577.1204, darrell.dawsey@wayne.edu DETROIT — In an effort to encourage first-generation and underrepresented local... Read More
TechCrunch | CTRL+T podcast: Diversity and its discontents
On this episode of CTRL+T, Megan Rose Dickey chats with Dr. Jennifer Cohen of the Level Playing Field Institute, an organization that aims to improve access and increase... Read More
SMASH STEM Program Prepares for Launch at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OCTOBER 26, 2017 Contact: Ashleigh Richelle, 408.387.4353, ashleigh@smash.org Peter Winicov, 215.746.6471, winicov@wharton.upenn.edu First Ivy League Institution to Host Free World-Class STEM-Business Program... Read More
Upworthy: This program has a brilliant plan for bringing diversity to the world of STEM
When Dr. Jennifer R. Cohen was working as a molecular biologist, she often wondered why no one else in her sector looked like her. As... Read More
Univision: UTEC visita SMASH Stanford
Univision stopped by SMASH at Stanford this summer to interview and highlight some of our scholars and the program in the South Bay. A... Read More
Los Angeles Wave: UCLA summer program is a SMASHing success
Students from high schools throughout Los Angeles were applauded by family members and teachers during UCLA’s SMASH Graduation and Recognition Ceremony July 29. In one... Read More
New Resource Bank | Blog: Meet the Organization Addressing Inclusion One Student at a Time
Ninth graders who apply for the Level Playing Field Institute’s SMASH Academy – an intensive summer program to teach science and math skills to... Read More
SF Chronicle: Teaching tech helps bridge the digital divide
Major tech companies have blamed the lack of diversity in their workforce on a “pipeline problem,” meaning a lack of available talent. To address the... Read More
Los Angeles Sentinel: UCLA SMASH Program Preparing Students for Tech America
“The consistent thing we hear from the Facebooks and Googles of the world is that they are not able to identify young talented people of... Read More
Atlanta Black Star: Morehouse Launches Successful Summer STEM Program that Puts Atlanta-Area Teens On Path to New Careers
When 28 high school-age boys signed up to participate in the first year of a STEM program at Morehouse College, they could never have predicted... Read More
Level Playing Field Institute to Expand Top STEM Education Program Nationally With Support from AT&T
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 20, 2017 Contact: Ashleigh Richelle, (408-387-4353), ashleigh@www.smash.org Level Playing Field Institute to Expand Top STEM Education Program Nationally With Support from AT&T... Read More
Level Playing Field Institute Welcomes New Board Members, Ellen Pao and Steven Wolfe Pereira
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 30, 2017 Contact: Ashleigh Richelle, (408-387-4353), ashleigh@www.smash.org Level Playing Field Institute Welcomes New Board Members, Ellen Pao and Steven Wolfe Pereira... Read More
The Color of STEM: Jennifer R. Cohen, Ph.D | SMASH Berkeley Site Director
“The Color of STEM” is a thirty-minute 6-part television profile series that features HBCU schools, students and alumni, and takes a look at HBCU’s partnerships... Read More
Young People of Color “Hack” Violence at Black History Month Youth Hack Day
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 25, 2017 Contact: Ashleigh Richelle, (408-387-4353), ashleigh@www.smash.org Young People of Color “Hack” Violence at Black History Month Youth Hack Day Atlanta,... Read More
ADVISORY: Black History Month Youth Hack Day in Atlanta Focuses on Innovating Conflict Resolution
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 22, 2016 *MEDIA ALERT/PHOTO & VIDEO OPPORTUNITIES* Black History Month Youth Hack Day in Atlanta Focuses on Innovating Conflict Resolution... Read More
Black Enterprise: #BlackSTEMLikeMe Takes Over the Impact Hub
In an evening full of total engagement, immersed in the likes of entrepreneurs, astronauts, National Society of Black Engineers’ leaders and students, the #BlackSTEMLikeMe hashtag... Read More