STEM Program
STEM Program
About the Program
STEM Education Outreach was founded at UCCS in 2008.
This program became part of the Pre-Collegiate Success and Support Center in 2016. It is a series of academic programs for regional 7-12th grade students designed to motivate and expose students to a variety of STEM activities, careers, and programs.
The goal is to increase STEM engagement and skills among students, teachers, and parents. Additionally, Pre-Collegiate provides college access support to underrepresented and first-generation students interested in pursuing a STEM degree at UCCS and support to UCCS faculty and departments interested in conducting K-12 STEM Outreach.
STEM Program Options
Code Quest
Type: Pre-Collegiate High School Students
Partner: Lockheed Martin
Recruiting up to 6 students to meet once a week on Saturday afternoons for 3 hours to learn Python and prepare for the spring competition.
Cyber Quest
Type: Pre-Collegiate High School Students
Partner: Lockheed Martin
Recruiting up to 6 students to meet once a week after school for 3 hours (dinner will be provided) starting in October and ending in March with the competition.
STEM Programming
Type: Pre-Collegiate Middle School Students
Partner: Western Digital
This funding is used to provide STEM workshops in addition to the existing middle school workshops for our scholars in grades 7-8 in Colorado Springs and Pueblo.
STEM in Real-Life Workshops
Type: Pre-Collegiate High School Students
Partner: Lockheed Martin
Designed to help with career exploration in many areas of engineering and technology for High School students.
Type: Pre-Collegiate Middle School Students
Partner: Northrup Grumman
STEM in Real Life workshops for the upcoming academic year are expanding to include middle school students.
Unite
Type: Pre-Collegiate High School Students
Summer Engineering Career exploration program – takes place in June for 4 weeks. Recruitment of 20 rising 10th-grade students (current 9th grade) takes place in March-May.