Project Report
| Jun 11, 2024
Look how far we have come!
By Danielle Webster | SOSA Board Member
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Exploration with microscopic organisms
Since SOSA’s inaugural STEPS workshop November 2013, our premier outreach program has grown by leaps and bounds. We humbly took 13 schools and a total of 91 students on an exploration of microscopic organisms, interactive chemistry and forensic science.
Did you know? With Jamaica as our launching point, STEPS has touched the lives of nearly three thousand students from over 100 schools, including additional Caribbean countries and across the United States.
Not only has STEPS grown in numbers in the past decade, but we have also incorporated an intercultural exchange, where undergraduate students from the United States are able to receive experiential service-learning opportunities through aiding in the workshop’s content development and delivery!
All these exciting developments are able to come to fruition because of supporters like you! Stay tuned as we have so much more in store for the upcoming months that we cannot wait to share with you!
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Undergraduate student facilitating at STEPS
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Feb 12, 2024
A Volunteer's POV
By Danielle Webster/Charisma Naik | SOSA Board Member/SOSA Volunteer
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A group of SOSA's Volunteers
SOSA has been operating on a 'somewhat unusual' business model - we are an all volunteer-run organization! In short, we've only been able to accomplish what we have through a robust pool of volunteers! In serving SOSA, they not only enrich the lives of those they provide service to, but also their own ;).
We've asked one of our volunteers to share their experience with working with SOSA. Here's what they had to say:
“I had the pleasure of working with SOSA to increase STEM engagement in Jamaican schools. I was thoroughly impressed with how intelligent the students were. Their accelerated thinking was not unnoticed because they theorized creative and feasible ideas right after our presentation; this meant that they synthesized the topics we presented quickly and went the extra step to think of solutions through their critical thinking skills…The biggest takeaway from my experience was that the students in Jamaica have brilliant minds and limitless potential. It is important to promote STEM engagement and professional development in these students so we can ensure they get equal opportunities to make ripple effects out in the real world.”
Thank you for your continued support, which enables us to expand/enrich programming for our students!
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Oct 12, 2023
Bridging the Gap
By Danielle Webster | Member of Board of Directors
Throughout the years SOSA has brought a myriad of topics to our students, from gene editing, to climate change. As 2023 nears the end, SOSA will be shifting its focus to the educators in our community to further amplify our reach. This October, we will be “Bridging the Gap” between teachers in the US and Jamaica. Cutting edge fields such as artificial intelligence (“AI”) and Climate Science will be highlighted, with the goal of exposing our students early to cross-cultural opportunities in STEM education. We aim to have teachers take this knowledge back to their classrooms, while building global connections that facilitate continued STEM promotion and development.
Look out for our updates on SOSA “Bridging the Gap”! We can’t wait to share this new experience with you!
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