SMASH, a STEM racial justice nonprofit, and Spelman College, partner to offer programming and support to young women of color interested in STEM careers.
Danielle Rose works under a pop-up grow tent inside Velocity’s main incubator workspace. It’s an unusual sight in the buzzing open-plan room amongst fellow tech founders. Rose is harvesting lettuce, a common crop that her startup, Ceragen, is trying to improve. What makes her lettuce unique is a microbial technology that promotes the plant’s growth and helps to increase crop
The future of STEM education won’t become more equitable by creating a free coding course but by seeing the solutions already before us and acting accordingly.