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EvolvingSTEM program

@evolvingstem.bsky.social

evolvingstem.org, an authentic laboratory-based classroom curriculum based at the University of Pittsburgh that improves learning and builds occupational identity in STEM

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EvolvingSTEM program @evolvingstem.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Final segment: our program and others like it may end w/ cuts to NIH and NSF. Our amazing instructors who teach >2500 students / year are paid by these grants. They allow our lab to innovate these curricula and measure how they benefit students. Tell your reps our kids need these programs!

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EvolvingSTEM program @evolvingstem.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

In this second segment, they discuss major outcomes of EvolvingSTEM: 1) improved learning of evolution, genetics, microbiology, and more importantly: 2) greater occupational identity in STEM. Students begin to see themselves as scientists and want to do more!

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EvolvingSTEM program @evolvingstem.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

WTAE filmed us in working with students at Pittsburgh Perry HS, one of more than 30 schools we partner with. This feature shows the value of NIH & NSF funding at work. Thanks: teacher Vicki Ammer, Prof. Cassie Quigley from Education, and our team, feat. Colton as local star. Segment 1:

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 30/10/2023

Some figures are better than others. For us, this is up there, charting the growth of EvolvingSTEM over the last decade to reach ~5000 students in total. @evolvingstem.bsky.social. I'm so proud of this team and program!

Annual numbers of students, teachers, and schools participating in and learning with EvolvingSTEM, our classroom curriculum based on a bacterial evolution experiment.

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