Disclaimer: This post was sponsored by the Boys & Girls Club of America as part of an Influencer Activation for Influence Central.
What does your child do when they are out of school?
I spent my childhood visiting every theme and water park in Florida, going to the museum, taking tours of local business, swimming in the beautiful Florida springs, taking classes at the community pool, bowling, skating, going to the movies every week, taking majorette classes, attending dance class, learning art, making crafts, playing outside with my friends, attending life skills classes, learning leadership skills, spending hours at the library, and participating in community service.
How did I do all this?
For six years, I was a member of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
The Boys & Girls Clubs of America are clubs in local communities that strive to provide families with out-of-school time programs that give children MORE than just a place to exist for a few hours. These clubs look deep into their community to find out what it is important to local youth and their future. For more than 150 years, Boys & Girls Clubs have been leaders in out-of-school time programming because they are constantly reevaluating what their members need from them.
What Boys & Girls Clubs’ communities need today…
Boys & Girls Clubs of America need STEM training! Many of the activities I enjoyed at my Boys & Girls Club twenty-five/thirty years ago are still a major portion of their program, but they have also evolved to introduce more technology and STEM training through My.Future.
STEM jobs in the U.S. are expected to grow nearly twice as fast as other fields by 2018 and kids and teens need these skills to compete in a global economy. In response to this great need for STEM training, the Boys & Girls Clubs began My.Future, a technology initiative supported by Comcast NBCUniversal. My.Future delivers programming that sparks kids and teens interests in STEM by encouraging them to explore topics that already interest them.
There will be more than 8 million STEM jobs in the U.S. by 2018,
but 3 million of them may go unfilled because of a lack of people with needed skills.
Research has shown that out-of-school programs advance science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) knowledge, and increase interest in these careers. Does your child have access to STEM?
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Boys & Girls Club of America My.Future Website
Boys & Girls Club of America My.Future Program Overview
Do you know what STEM programs are available in your community?
