WHAT WE DO

Translating the Opportunity

Currently 4 Million jobs in STEM and the Arts are unfilled. That’s a huge opportunity for our people to step into! We utilize music, video, performance, and motivational speaking to make STEAM careers relatable and within reach. Through our App, engaging video content, school assembly shows, and workshops, we reach young people where they’re at.

Building a Bridge to Careers

If you can see it, you can be it, so we make it our mission to provide information, exposure, and inspiration. We produce and curate content that features stories of BIPOC folks in STEAM careers, and informative programming that decreases the space between underserved youth and in-demand careers. We help them see themselves in these careers.

Our Mission

To inform, inspire, and activate underserved youth to pursue in-demand career paths.

Our Vision

Our vision is that the opportunity gap will be closed! That over a million young people are on pathways to success; meaning they are able to support themselves and their family, live a fulfilling and empowering life and help mentor and raise up the next generation of changemakers.

OUR IMPACT

Through in-school programming, production and distribution of impactful, relevant content and the building of cross-sector partnerships, STEAM the Streets has become a force in the ecosystem to create a more inclusive STEAM career pipeline.

Accomplishments

Since 2016, STEAM the Streets has directly served over 16,000 youth in person and virtually, in addition to more than 3 million impressions via online media campaigns.
STEAM the Streets has helped numerous partners reach their outreach and recruitment goals including Cañada College, who saw their Full Stack Development program become their highest enrolled workforce program, thanks in big part to STS’ messaging and storytelling.
A music video we produced about Black Inventors, “Black Made That,” involving over 300 students from Richmond, CA & New Bedford, MA, has garnered 1.5 million cumulative views and 33 thousand shares. Educators across the country are using it to engage students around Black History and STEAM.
Since 2017, we have released ten episodes of “STEAM Powered,” a video series highlighting the stories of underrepresented professionals and rising amateurs in STEAM career fields. We utilize the videos for school assemblies, online distribution, and as resources to help close the opportunity gap. You can find all ten videos in the Discover tab in the STEAM the Streets App.
Through a long-term partnership from 2016-2020 with Carney Academy in New Bedford, MA, our programming helped double the number of 5th grade students who scored proficient on the Massachusetts Science assessment from 30% to 60%.
In 2018, Keith Middle School reached only 7% of their target on the Massachusetts state assessment, and that number jumped to 66% in 2020 after partnering with STEAM the Streets.

“I am the Science teacher for grade 5 here at Dighton Middle School. I wanted to express my appreciation for your presentation this morning. It is so vital for students to hear from someone other than me that STEAM is so important. Often times we cannot see the importance of education and are just getting through the day. I was impressed with your show and I said to kids I wished you could see them working hard each day in Science for me.”

Andrea CabralTeacher, Grade 5 Science

“It’s about equity, it’s about access. You don’t know what you don’t know. You don’t know about these opportunities if you don’t have role models. STEAM the Streets should be doing this at every school.”

Justine MedinaFormer Principal, Carlos Pacheco Middle School.

"The STEAM initiative at Keith Middle School was about changing mindsets and exposing students to opportunities. No matter where you come from greatness is at your finger tips and it may not always be down the path you think. Through our partnership students heard this message from the launch assembly and local guest speakers and went on to experience it through partnerships between teachers and field experts during after-school programming."

Josh AlmeidaFormer Principal, Keith Middle School