Moderator: Sarita Pillai, NSF ITEST Learning Resource Center, Education Development Center, Inc.

With a focus on student/youth diversity, this webinar highlighted specific strategies, successes and challenges related to engaging these diverse learners in STEM education and the workforce.

• What are the gender specific and/or culturally relevant strategies that nurture interest and support persistence in engagement with STEM for specific sub-populations of youth?
• What do the career development frameworks and models look like for these sub-populations?
• Who are the influencers of youth, within each sub-population and in general? How do we educate them about educational and career opportunities in STEM in ways that will increase access to these opportunities for all youth?

Participants who joined this webinar to learned from ITEST projects working across the U.S., in both urban and rural communities and with youth of varying race, ethnicity, SES, English-language proficiency, and gender.

This webinar was hosted by the NSF ITEST Learning Resource Center at Education Development Center, Inc

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