STEM Outreach Matrix

Leading scholars from around the world discuss the social implications of neuroscience. Also available: Stays of a few weeks to a few months to interact with the greater Penn community on problems of neuroscience and society. 

The program welcomes highly motivated and talented students to explore Engineering at the college level. The Academy's intensive, 3-week programs combine sophisticated theory with hands-on practical experience in cutting edge technologies.  Work with leading faculty while earning college credit, live on Penn's historic campus, and connect with new friends from around the world. Website: https://esap.seas.upenn.edu/

The SUMR program is sponsored by the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI) and the Health Care Management Department of the Wharton School to provide undergraduate students an opportunity to explore the exciting field of health services research.

This is a free, four week summer program for local high school students interested in materials science and engineering.   The program consists of lectures on materials, a computer lab, experimental labs, and field trips to both industrial and Penn facilities.

This is a six week summer program for 5 local high school science teachers who will each undertake a research project in materials science with an LRSM- affiliated faculty member.

Popular science talks on specific aspects of materials, eg fuel cells, solar power, etc., given by our affiliated faculty at a local restaurant/bar in a relaxed setting conducive to setting up a dialogue between the speaker and the audience.

The Moelis Access Science (MAS) program seeks to improve STEM education by partnering Penn students and faculty with local K-12 public school counterparts via K-12 Teacher-Fellow Partnerships, STEM-Related Academically Based Community Service (ABCS) Courses, and Educator Professional Development.

 Funded by NSF under grant # 1450467, the Penn I-Corps Site supports the translation of research from STEM areas into the marketplace by providing educational programming, financial support and strategic guidance through offering Penn-affiliated teams access to commercialization programs at PCI and a new entrepreneurial curriculum. The goal of the Site is to expand PCI's startup creation services to Penn-affiliated teams and accelerate start-up creation at Penn.

The AppItUP Challenge collects mobile enterprise ideas from the Penn Community with the goal of turning the best ideas into products. We partner with investors, software developers, and business leaders to make it happen. The AppItUP Challenge provides the opportunity for any Penn student, staff or faculty member to submit their idea and have it turned into reality by professional software developers for free.

 Five Saturdays of hands-on activities at Penn Dental Medicine which culminates in a two week shadowing internship at the dental school during the months of July and August

 Six week summer program run by dental student volunteers from Penn Dental Medicine (PDM) with help from Dr. Andrew Kim, PDM alum.  Vocatio works to provide a high quality, comprehensive academic and vocational program that will place young men and women into a post-secondary educational institution or onto a successful career path.

Supporting Penn's mission to increase access and impact technology-enhanced education on Penn's campus and beyond.  Learn more about open courses and educational resources that change people's lives.

 

Hauling science out of the lab for a night on the town, the Penn Science Cafe offers the Philadelphia region an opportunity to pitch questions to leading scientific experts who drop the jargon to explain their work in layman's terms.

A unique twist on the traditional science fair designed to make scientists better communicators and to interest elementary school students in science: Third and fourth graders from local elementary schools come to Penn to judge the projects that Penn undergraduate,graduate students and post-docs create.

Each spring Biology faculty, graduate students and postdocs host more than 30 students from Philadelphia high schools for a day of research lab visits and conversation about science careers and continued science study.  

EAGR streamline workshop design and management to enable busy STEM experts to maximize the educational impact of community outreach hours and effort through facilitating small group workshops and table demos that unite high school students with graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty members from Penn.

A 3-week summer program with the goal to introduce high school students to the experimental basis of biology, including relevance to disease.  The focus of the program will be on how we know what we know.

A 3-week summer program with the goal to introduce high school students to the experimental basis of mechanics and advanced topics in physics.  The focus of the program will be on how we know what we know.

 A 3-week summer program with the goal to introduce students to the biological foundations of the brain.

A web-based curriculum for science teachers consisting of modules including videos, activities and discussion questions to introduce genomics to students.

GRASP supports STEM education in the Philadelphia region by providing training, mentoring and assistance to local schools. GRASP students mentor teams, train STEM educators and provide tours of GRASP to area schools.

A one-week day program in the summer for underserved Philadelphia middle school students providing a hands-on experience in science and engineering. This program utilizes a different Innoworks’ curriculum every year such as The Eureka Effect, Dare to Discover and Making Sense of Senses.

Each year the Singh Center for Nanotechnology highlights nanotech across Penn. High school classes, undergraduate and graduate students, postdocs and faculty participate in exhibits, demos, tours and talks. 

STEER is the Short Term Educational Experiences for Research in Environmental Science program, which offers paid summer internships for Penn undergraduates. 

The CTSA internship program provides approximately 10 weeks of mentored experience in translational and clinical approaches to understanding disease and developing therapeutic modalities. The focus of the internship is biomedical research, generally in a laboratory setting. Students present and discuss their work and participate in a seminar series.

Service Link is a project where trained undergraduates and medical students assist Sayre Health Center patients to access services that improve health and quality of life (e.g. utilities assistance, referral appointments, SNAP [food stamps] and other public benefits). The project has over 20 volunteers and is organized by a medical student graduate group as well as undergraduate volunteers.

Offers high school women the opportunity to explore interests in reproductive health and research science, and to learn directly from top professionals in these fields. . No prior research experience needed. Summer research is also available.

Offers high school researchers interested in stem cell biology and/or regenerative medicine an opportunity to work at the bench alongside our Penn faculty and other researchers at the IRM. Some research experience or exposure required. 

The SUIP provides an intense research experience to students interested in graduate study in the biomedical and biological sciences.  Approximately 30 college students from across the US participate in this 10-week full-time laboratory research experience each year; most are rising juniors and seniors. 

The Teachers Institute offers academic content seminars for professional development, led by senior Penn scholars, which are open to K-12 public school teachers from the West and Southwest Regions of the School District of Philadelphia at no cost. 

The VETS program is an exciting 1-week summer experience and sessions have been designed specifically for college students. The program has been created for those who are interested in the science of veterinary medicine.

This program provides a comprehensive set of services to support success for approximately 450 academically talented students, many from low income, first-generation to college backgrounds, during their entire undergraduate careers at Penn.

The Trio Veterans Upward Bound Program, a federally funded program serving 120 persons annually, enhances the learning experience of military veterans. It offers intensive pre-college academic courses and comprehensive support services towards the pursuit of post-secondary education.

The Penn Upward Bound Math and Science Program is a college preparatory program for high school students at targeted West Philadelphia high schools who are interested in the STEM fields. UBMS provides these highly motivated first-generation, low income students with educational, scientific, and cultural programs that enhance their ability to complete high school and then go on to complete degrees at competitive four-year post-secondary institutions.