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Battelles Aimee Kennedy top spoke at the DC STEM Network launch event hosted at Carnegie headquarters. The network is co-led by Julie Edmonds of the Carnegie Academy for Science Education bottom. on the UCSF SEP High School Intern Program UC-San Francisco has a program that won an Obama mentoring award. Its about 30 years old. They ask the teachers of the San Francisco school system to nominate kids whose parents have not gone to college who are excited about sciencewhether they are doing well in science or not. Every year something like 150 kids are nominated and about 20 are selected. Each of the 20 works in a lab with a postdoc or graduate student and they meet a couple of times every week to talk about their futureespecially about college how do you get into college and get help and writing applications to college. It has been an incredibly successful program. About 95 of them have gone on to college and most of them have majored in some kind of scientific field. This program could be replicated at every research institution. Bruce Alberts on Other Ways to Engage Experiences should be hands-on show application to the real world and be interactive. Career days for example should move from the lecture format to the hands-on format where students can see and explore interesting big ideas in STEM. Hosting Math and Science evenings with parents and students provides a wonderful opportunity to show how interesting STEM can be. Parent involvement is essential where possible. I have observed schools where STEM guests do incredible demonstrations in large and small school environments. The results are amazing in stimulating interest in STEM however it must be continued and not a one-shot visit. Other ways of engagement include mentoring students helping to raise funds to equip a lab sponsoring the science fair or serving as a judge at the science fair. Sue White WHAT works Image courtesy Sean Solomon Image courtesy Battelle