STARBASE VERMONT INCORPORATED
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Mission Statement
STARBASE Vermont serves students in 5th grade by providing hands-on learning in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The goal is to improve their interest, knowledge, skills and career interest in STEM. STARBASE VT works primarily with Title 1 schools; these schools have the highest populations of disadvantaged children. Over 50,000 students have participated since 1994. We work with 101 classes from 56 schools in 31 districts annually.
About This Cause
STARBASE Vermont is a STEM education awareness and outreach program focused primarily on fifth graders that provides 25 hours of engaging STEM instruction. STARBASE also includes a 2.0 after-school element for middle school students to motivate them to explore STEM curriculum as part of their education. The program engages students through the inquiry-based curriculum with its “hands-on, mind-on” experiential activities. They study Newton’s Laws and Bernoulli’s principle; explore nanotechnology, navigation and mapping. They are captivated by engineering as they use the computer to design space stations, all-terrain vehicles, and submersibles. Math is embedded throughout the curriculum and students use metric measurement, estimation, calculation geometry and data analysis to solve questions. Teamwork is stressed as they work together to explore, explain, elaborate and evaluate concepts. The academies work with school districts to support their standards of learning objectives. A teacher whose class attended STARBASE stated, “STARBASE teaches science and math in ways that we wish we had the time, resources and expertise to do in the regular classroom. It’s experiential, exploratory learning with a direct tie to the standards.” Our vision is to be the premier youth outreach program for raising the interest in learning and improving the knowledge and skills of our nation’s at risk youth so that we may develop a highly educated and skilled American workforce who can meet the advance technological requirements of the nation.