Shifting Math Narratives through Afterschool
2025-08-20 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Denver)
Join STEM Next for a virtual panel exploring how afterschool and summer programs are helping to reimagine math learning nationwide. Panelists include experts from The Gates Foundation, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, and Learn Fresh.

August 20 at 12:00 p.m. ET / 9:00 a.m. PT

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Explora: 3D Printing 101 (In-Person)
2025-08-26 16:00 - 18:00 | Explora, 1701 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104, United States
Excited about 3D printers but not sure where to start? Join us for 3D printing basics and learn how to print parts for Sphero robots. Take away ideas and activities you can immediately use with your students!
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Kickstart Your School Year with Hands-on Engineering
2025-08-26 17:00 - 18:00
Start your school year with energy, creativity, and collaboration! In this interactive webinar, you’ll experience how YES’s engineering units use relatable, real-world problems to help students explore what engineers do and how they think. We’ll explore how this early experience builds confidence, collaboration, and creative thinking in K–8 learners.
We’ll walk through Lesson 1: What is Engineering? from different grade bands, highlighting how these short, powerful kickoff lessons engage learners in the Engineering Design Process from day one. Plus, we’ll do one of the hands-on challenges together — designing a model bench using simple materials. Leave with classroom-ready ideas and inspiration to launch engineering in your classroom this fall!
Please gather the following materials and bring them with you to the webinar:

5 sheets of copy paper
12 inches of tape (masking or cellophane)
A pair of scissors
A ruler
A pen or pencil

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Afterschool Webinar: Building Better Communities: Youth Civic Engagement in Afterschool Programs
2025-08-27 12:00 - 13:00
Young people have always been at the forefront of driving change in our country and around the world. Afterschool programs provide a powerful space for youth to lead with their interests and connect their talents and skills to the change they want to see. But are we doing enough to truly support youth-led civic engagement?
Join us for a dynamic conversation with researchers and on-the-ground practitioners who are building pathways for youth to shape their communities. We’ll explore what’s working, where gaps remain, and how programs can do more to center youth voice in real-world change efforts.
This webinar will also feature the debut of the Afterschool Alliance’s latest report on youth civic engagement and unveil a brand-new practitioner toolkit filled with resources to help programs take the next step in empowering youth-led action.
Speakers:

James Fields, Senior Director of Youth Councils, Mikva Challenge
Noorya Hayat, Senior Researcher, Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), Tufts University
Anita Krishnamurthi, Sr. VP, STEM & Youth Civic Engagement & President, Collective for Youth Empowerment in STEM & Society (CYESS), Afterschool Alliance
Luella Provenza, US Partnership Specialist, Technovation

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Girls Who Code Community Partner Webinar
2025-08-27 13:00 - 14:00
Community Partner Webinar. Join us on August 27th at 1 pm MT to kick off the 2025–26 school year with our Girls Who Code Community Partner Webinar! Connect with fellow leaders from school districts, library networks, and nonprofits as we share the latest Clubs curriculum updates, preview our fall events, and highlight inspiring stories from our community.
Register here to join Girls Who Code live!

YEI Educator Power Hour: Designing Your Entrepreneurial Classroom
2025-08-27 14:00 - 15:00
Learn how you can build a learning environment where entrepreneurship can thrive.
Hear from:

Who: K-12 Educators
Where: Via Zoom (you will receive a link after signing up)
When (U.S): Wed., August 27, 4pm ET, 3pm CT / 2pm MT / 1pm PT or convert to your time zone here

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Attendees will receive 200 points to spend on YIPPEE Exchange

2025 NASA Space Apps Albuquerque Webinar
2025-08-28 12:00 - 13:00
2025 NASA Space Apps, Albuquerque: Webinar Registration

“Albuquerque, we have a problem…”
🌍 NASA International Space Apps Challenge, Albuquerque: Informational Webinar
First time hearing about the NASA International Space Apps Challenge? Heard about the prizes and want to know how to win? Whether you’re a coder, artist, student, scientist, or someone who wants to make the world a better place, this webinar is for you!
Join us for a lively and insightful session to explore the world’s largest and most exciting hackathon, right here in Albuquerque! We’ll talk about how you can participate (no, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist!), how to prepare, and what the event weekend will look like. Plus, there will be space at the end of the presentation to answer all of your burning questions! (See what we did there?) 🌠
During each webinar, presenters will discuss:
✅ How to register ✍️
✅ Past project showcases 🖼️
✅ Q&A with organizers 💡
✅ What you can win 💸
👇 Fill out this form to receive webinar dates & times:

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Lights On Afterschool 101
2025-09-04 12:00 - 13:00
Lights On Afterschool is back for its 26th year, celebrating afterschool programs, students, and staff! Taking place this year on October 23, 2025, this nationwide event brings together more than 8,000 programs showcasing the important role that afterschool plays in supporting youth, families, and communities. Like afterschool programs, Lights On Afterschool celebrations come in all shapes and sizes and don’t have to be huge to be effective.
Whether this is your first Lights On Afterschool or your 26th, join us for this webinar to inspire you to get the most out of your event!
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Building a Better School Breakfast Together
2025-09-04 13:00 - 14:00
A healthy breakfast is more than a meal—it’s the foundation for a student’s focus, energy, and academic success. Yet too many students are missing out. This webinar will explore why school breakfast matters for student well-being and achievement, and how schools can collaborate with students, families, and anti-hunger advocates to break down barriers to participation. We’ll share practical strategies for building strong partnerships, creating inclusive breakfast programs, and addressing stigma. Hear inspiring examples of innovative approaches—like Breakfast After the Bell, promotional campaigns, and securing student input—that have successfully increased participation. Whether you’re an educator, school nutrition professional, or community advocate, you’ll leave with actionable ideas and resources to ensure every student begins their day nourished and ready to learn.

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Career-Connected Learning: A Framework for Out-of-School Time Providers Launch
2025-09-10 13:00 - 14:00
Join STEM Next for a national back-to-school launch event to spotlight Career-Connected Learning: A Framework for Out-of-School Time Providers, STEM Next’s bold new tool designed to accelerate and expand career-connected learning in afterschool and summer programs across the country.
Date: Wednesday, September 10th, 2025
Time: 3:00 PM EST / 12:00 PM PST
This event marks the start of a coordinated national effort to amplify the framework’s strategies, showcase its early champions, and preview a suite of supports for the Out-of-School Time (OST) field — including provider trainings and a systems-level playbook. Building on the success of STEM Next’s Million Girls Moonshot, this framework offers a practical, field-informed guide for OST providers, educators, system leaders, and cross-sector partners to deliver high-quality, career-connected STEM experiences.
Panelists include:

Christine Cunningham, Senior Vice President, STEM Learning, Museum of Science
Joel Vargas, Vice President, Jobs for the Future
Zelda Waymer, President & Chief Executive Officer, South Carolina Afterschool Network
Delia Meza, Director of Family Learning and Community Partnerships, New York Hall of Science

This event is designed for national and state-level leaders in STEM; OST providers and system leaders; and partners engaged in education solutions that advance career pathways for youth.

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Career-Connected Learning Training: Engaging Families and Communities Part 1
2025-09-10 13:00 - 14:00
Families and communities play a vital role in helping young people see STEM as part of their future. In this training session, attendees will explore STEM Next’s Career-Connected Learning Framework for Out-of-School Time Providers, with a focus on Family and Community Engagement. Participants will learn practical strategies to involve parents, caregivers, and community partners in STEM career exploration, with actionable steps to build ongoing family engagement and career-connected STEM activities to share with families and partners.
Audience: This training is designed for out-of-school time program providers and staff, including directors, professional development and quality specialists, and facilitators. It is also ideal for out-of-school time organizations, including museum and library staff.
Attendees who complete the post-training survey will be entered into a raffle to win a $100 Amazon gift card for their program.

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Explora: Patterns to Virtual Thinking (Virtual)
2025-09-11 14:00 - 16:00
Discover ready-to-use activities which support young students’ understanding of patterns, sequencing, and other skills needed for coding. You’ll immediately be able to apply these ideas with your students!
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Afterschool Policy Pulse
2025-09-12 10:00 - 10:30, 2025-09-23 00:00, 2025-10-10 10:00 - 10:30
Welcome to the Policy Pulse! Every second Friday at noon ET, Afterschool Alliance Senior VP of Policy, Erik Peterson, will recap the latest policy developments, what we know (or don’t know!) about how they may impact afterschool and summer programs, and what may be coming up next. Submit your questions in advance so we know what’s top of mind for you: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScatCxIspYzqu7wSl2T-OWV2iipwr4CHsZF8Ttyn2UDbD_4jQ/viewform

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Oyanova: Empowering Communities and Inspiring Change
2025-09-16 12:00 - 13:00
Join NGCP for a compelling webinar with Oyanova co-founders, Jessica and Emily Esquivel. Discover how the Esquivels utilize their backgrounds in science and psychotherapy, and their commitment to community, to cultivate well-being, innovation, and generational wealth.
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Getting to the Source of State-Dedicated Funding for Kids
2025-09-18 12:00 - 13:00
Ensuring that all children in the United States have the opportunity to grow and thrive requires significant public spending at all levels of government. With major federal investments for kids set to decline in the coming years, advocates need to explore new strategies to maintain, sustain, and expand support at the state level. One promising approach is creating state dedicated funds—public revenue streams set aside by state legislatures or voter approval to support programs and services for children and youth. These funds offer a more stable and protected source of funding outside the annual budget process, and may insulate child and youth programs from political and economic churn. Join Children’s Funding Project to learn more about state dedicated funds as we share highlights from our forthcoming paper State Strategies for Sustained Investment in Kids: A Landscape of Dedicated Funding, which takes a comprehensive look at dedicated state-level funds for child and youth programs outside of the K-12 school day. In this webinar we’ll speak to some of the advocates highlighted in the paper and discuss the range of approaches states have taken to dedicate funding to kids. Attendees will leave with a sense of the decision-making, coalition building, and advocacy that made these wins possible and with concrete strategies that state leaders and advocates can use to identify what might work in their own state. Everyone who registers for the webinar will receive a copy of the recording.

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Summer EBT Deep Dive: Implementation Successes and Best Practices in 2025
2025-09-18 13:00 - 14:00
Join FRAC for a webinar celebrating the second year of the Summer EBT program. Hear from state agency representatives on how implementation played out in 2025, the successes they have had this summer, and their thoughts on best practices in the program for the coming years.

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2025 Space Apps Albuquerque Webinar
2025-09-20 15:00 - 16:00

ACRES: Make Math Meaningful- Back pocket ideas
2025-09-24 10:30 - 11:30
We know there are so many topics to cover in the fall as you onboard staff. Let the ACRES team help. Math resources will be showcased and shared so staff have tools in their back pockets to make math meaningful and move beyond just helping with homework. This is a free, LIVE, virtual workshop that will last 45 minutes FMI email acres@mmsa.org.
To register, go to the ACRES 2025 workshops registration form.

An Introduction to Career-Connected Learning and a Framework to Support Out-of-School Time Providers
2025-09-24 13:00 - 14:00
Description: At STEM Next Opportunity Fund, we are bringing career-connected learning to out-of-school time educators! We are accelerating our efforts to advance career-connected learning in afterschool and summer learning programs with the introduction of the Career-Connected Learning: A Framework for Out-of-School Time Providers. This new Framework is an actionable tool for out-of-school time providers and staff who want to design and implement career-connected STEM learning experiences in out-of-school time—afterschool and summer programs. In this training, attendees will be introduced to the concept of career-connected learning, dive into the Framework and its four main strategies, and leave with materials to support professional development for staff and three career-connected learning STEM lessons to facilitate with youth.
Audience: This training is designed for out-of-school time program providers and staff, including directors, professional development and quality specialists, and facilitators. It is also ideal for out-of-school time organizations, including museum and library staff.
Attendees who complete the post-training survey will be entered into a raffle to win a $100 Amazon gift card for their program.
Register today!: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/t5-k1TucRx2JDYBxd1nK9w

YEI Power Hour: Launching an Entrepreneurship Club
2025-09-24 14:00 - 15:00
YEI Power Hours are hosted by Young Entrepreneur Institute, where we believe every child should understand and experience entrepreneurship. Learn more about our programs at www.youngentrepreneurinstitute.org.
Our Educator Power Hour for September is focused on Launching an Entrepreneurship Club is on Wednesday, September 24, at 4-5 PM EST. Register by completing this form.
Contact echois@us.edu with any questions.

Project Scientist Program Partner Information Session
2025-09-24 16:00 - 17:00
Join Project Scientist for an upcoming Program Information Session to learn more about what it means to become a Program Partner by bringing Project Scientist to girls in your community.

Date: September 24, 2025
Time: 3:00pm PT, 5:00pm CT, 6:00pm ET
Location: Virtual Zoom Link

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If you have questions or concerns, please reach out to info@projectscientist.org

2025 NASA Space Apps, Albuquerque Webinar
2025-09-25 12:00 - 13:00

Girls Who Code Panel 1: Defending the Future- Careers in Cybersecurity
2025-10-01 17:00 - 18:00
Accelerate your tech career with hands-on workshops, networking, and interview prep. For college students & early career professionals.

Join us for a discussion on what it means to stay safe online and learn more about careers in cybersecurity.

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GWC Workshop #2: Design the Future of AI & Cyber with GWC & IBM SkillsBuild
2025-10-07 16:00 - 17:00
Accelerate your tech career with hands-on workshops, networking, and interview prep. For college students & early career professionals.

Kick off the annual GWC Challenge and learn more about IBM’s SkillsBuild to build and enhance your project.

This workshop will introduce participants to the new Girls Who Code Challenge and how they will leverage IBM SkillsBuild in the project development process. Explore the world of AI and cybersecurity as you meet IBM volunteers and learn about their career paths, and also learn more about this year’s GWC Challenge!
In this year’s GWC Challenge, you will buil a project that explores how people can use AI to protect their identities and creativity online.
Get a head start on the Challenge by diving into this free learning plan, brought to you by IBM SkillsBuild. Winning projects will receive prizes and a special spotlight with GWC.
If you have any questions regarding this event, please check out some of our FAQs below or here for additional questions.

If you are aged 18 – 26 and interested in elevating your early career tech journey, you are eligible to participate in Upskill Series! We are excited to offer this opportunity to our early career community.

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Career-Connected Learning Training: Building Broad Skills to Support Youth in the Workforce
2025-10-08 13:00 - 14:00
As the modern workforce evolves at an unprecedented pace, durable—or “soft”—skills are increasingly as important as technical skills in high-demand STEM jobs. Helping youth develop these skills is a core strategy of STEM Next’s Career-Connected Learning Framework for Out-of-School Time Providers.
In this training, attendees will learn how to weave durable skills into STEM activities so youth can confidently say to employers: I solve problems, think critically, communicate clearly, work well with others, and adapt to change.
Participants will leave with materials to support staff professional development and three ready-to-use STEM lessons for youth.
Audience: This training is designed for out-of-school time program providers and staff, including directors, professional development and quality specialists, and facilitators. It is also ideal for out-of-school time organizations, including museum and library staff.
Attendees who complete the post-training survey will be entered into a raffle to win a $100 Amazon gift card for their program.

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Beyond Astronauts: Your Guide to Space Careers
2025-10-08 16:00 - 17:00
This World Space Week, join STEM Next for a Career Chat moderated by our own teen Flight Crew member from Alabama, Charlee! We’ll be talking to the pros about the coolest jobs in the cosmos (and on Earth!).
Date: Wednesday, October 8th
Time: 3:00 PM PST / 6:00 PM EST
The universe of space careers is HUGE! From designing rockets at Lockheed Martin to unique missions at NASA, there’s a spot for you. This conversation featuring leaders in space exploration will focus on:
✨ Careers you never knew existed, all about living and working in space
✨ The skills you need to launch your future
✨ How to get started NOW on internship, college, and career prep
This event is for young people and teens ready to explore their future. Afterschool program leaders, we would love for you to join live with your youth!
Panelists include:

Whitley Poyser, Director of Deep Space Exploration at Lockheed Martin: She leads missions that will take humans deeper into space than ever before. As Director for the Deep Space Exploration Mission Segment, she guides teams building the technologies and spacecraft needed for journeys beyond the Moon.
NASA’s Dr. Sarah Wallace: Her work in the Biomedical Research and Environmental Sciences Division at the NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center focuses on understanding how microbes behave in the unique environment of space and developing innovative technologies to keep astronauts healthy.
Matt Nassoiy, Program Engineering Manager for GM’s Lunar Mobility Vehicle project, helping design and build the next Lunar Terrain Vehicle that could carry astronauts or gear on the moon’s surface.

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The STEM Talk | Your 30-Minute, Monthly STEM Pulse Check
2025-10-09 10:00 - 10:30
Join the Afterschool Alliance
The STEM Talk | Your 30-Minute, Monthly STEM Pulse Check
for our next STEM Talk, where we’ll cover the latest federal budget updates, NSF grants, new Department of Education RFI initiatives, and more. We’ll also dive into the Presidential AI Challenge and how these policy shifts are reshaping the federal STEM education landscape.

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Explora: Unplugged Coding for Young Learners Workshop
2025-10-09 10:00 - 12:00
Join us for pattern recognition and basic algorithmic thinking activities which require no tech and build early skills for coding. You’ll immediately be able to apply these ideas with your students!
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