"The America's Promise Alliance in Washington, D.C., has announced a $1 million grant from the AT&T Aspire initiative — a $100 million effort launched by AT&T and the AT&T Foundation to help American students succeed in high school, the workforce, and life.

"Documents the implementation of a citywide initiative to integrate out-of-school time organizations and offer services for middle school youth at multiple neighborhood sites such as libraries and arts centers. Discusses challenges and lessons learned."

The U.S. Department of Education and its partners United Way Worldwide, National PTA, SEDL, and Harvard Family Research Project invite you to participate in the following webinar.

Transforming Schools Through Family, School, and Community Engagement
April 29, 2010
1:30-3:00 p.m. (EDT)

Learn about two youth-created STEM career resources developed by Education Development Center, Inc, and funded by the National Science Foundation. The FunWorks provides highly interactive, 'real world' career experiences and uses young people's current interests and passions (e.g., music, sports) to help them explore exciting, future STEM careers.

At the National Afterschool Association Convention this year, project leaders from the National Science Foundation’s ITEST (Innovative Technology Experiences for Students & Teachers) Program have formed a track to examine different dimensions of STEM learning and STEM workforce development in afterschool.  YouthLearn team members, who also work as part of the ITEST Learning Resource Center (LRC) at EDC, are moderating the sessions.