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To better explain our experience in the "partnership" with NEXT.CC you need some background about our organization.
To start, my name is Marcelo Caplan, associate professor in the Department of Science and Mathematics - Columbia College Chicago and Director of the program Scientists for Tomorrow (SfT). SfT provides access and opportunities to undeserved and underrepresented communities to learn and promote themselves in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) serving more than 40 communities (children and parents) in the Chicago Area. We provide on-site STEM hands-on curriculum where the participants build STEM oriented projects. (www.scientistsfortomorrow.org)
In our quest to provide also a "high quality and free" online complementary set of activities for our children and parents we started a deep search until we discovered NEXT.CC
We explore their journeys that includes many topics, developed in a level that progressively attract children to explore a topic they like, and then, have opportunity to delve more into their selected topic and with it develop a “passion”. This passion was enabled by the possibilities that NEXT.CC offered.
Then, the next step was obvious: to contact NEXT.CC leader, Linda Keane, and establish a partnership. The goal of the partnership is to provide to our children a combination of real world hands-on experience with e-learning to allow them to grow and explore in their own pace.
Working with Linda we develop and adapt some journeys and now we are developing two new journeys: The Smart Grid and the Renewable Energies journeys. Working with Linda, and the team of NEXT.CC is a pleasure and an inspiration. They are really dedicated to promote ACCESS to all.
To close, I will like to say that for us in Scientists for Tomorrow, it is a pleasure and an honor to have NEXT.CC as a partner in our quest to facilitate STEM for ALL!!!!