Engaging Latinx Communities in STEAM Webinar

Culturally Responsive STEAM Programming:
Engaging Latinx Communities in Rural Areas

Free Webinar on September 15 @ 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
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In this webinar, attendees gain new ideas and understanding of how to offer culturally responsive programming to Latinx communities and build relationships safely during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This webinar, along with Closing the Gender Gap: Developing Gender Equitable STEAM Programs, is offered to make programming resources and promising practices from the STAR Net STEAM Equity Project: Enhancing Learning Opportunities in Libraries of Rural Communities broadly available. All library workers are welcome.

Webinar participants will learn about the importance of culturally responsive programming. You will also meet the STEAM Equity project librarian advisors, who will provide programming ideas and outreach strategies you can use to build relationships with Latinx communities in your area starting right now.

Virtual Bosque Chile Festival & Latinx Youth with Authors

 

Virtual Bosque Chile Festival Facebook Live Event Saturday and Sunday, August 15 & 16 2 pm The Bosque Chile Festival is a celebration of the art, culture, and food of New Mexico, developed to showcase and honor New Mexican and Latino/Hispanic culture and agriculture in the middle Rio Grande Valley through performances, art, educational sessions, chef demonstrations, value-added products, and produce that pay homage to time-honored and celebrated New Mexican traditions, foods, and crafts.  This year the Bosque Chile Festival announces a home decorating contest, Chile Casas. Break out the ristras, piñatas, flags, banners, sidewalk chalk, chile lights, and green and red balloons to show your chile pride! Red, green, or Christmas, you decide! Visit the Bosque Chile Festival website to register and for decorating ideas!   Join us for the Bosque Chile Festival happening virtually Saturday and Sunday, August 15 and 16, beginning at 2 pm on the Bosque Chile Festival Facebook page.

An Evening for Latinx Youth with Authors Lynda Lopez and Natalia Sylvester Live Zoom Event Thursday, August 13 7:30 PM EST/5:30 PM MST Register Here The National Hispanic Cultural Center, in collaboration with Duende District and Greenlight Bookstore, present Natalia Sylvester, author of Running, and Lynda Lopez, editor of AOC: The Fearless Rise and Powerful Resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, with special teen guests from the Latin American Youth Center and the National Hispanic Cultural Center.   The evening event will highlight and celebrate Latinx youth civic engagement, featuring authors Natalia Sylvester and Lynda Lopez. In Sylvester’s Running, fifteen-year-old Cuban-American Mariana Ruiz starts to see her father with new eyes when he runs for president. Lopez’s book AOC: The Fearless Rise and Powerful Resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, presents seventeen contributing writers’ points of view on a young Latina politician in the U.S. Congress. Just thirty, AOC represents her generation, the millennials, in many groundbreaking ways: proudly working class, of Puerto Rican descent, master of social media, a feminist—and a great dancer.

STEAM Opportunities in NM

 

Call for Youth Storytellers

Escuela... Libros... STEAM and 2020 Bosque Chile Festival & Podcast

COVID has delayed the opening of the schools for a few weeks.  Brianna is busy deliver STEAM & books!

Summer reading logs may have closed, but you can still pick up free bilingual books, bilingual science experiments from Explora, at San Juan County and Dona Ana County NM Free Little Libraries.  Take the online survey and be entered to win a $100 gift card in August (Dona Ana County) and October.

 

Distributing Science boards, Slime kits and Circuits for Back to School at Makers Market. 
Thank you to The Stocker Foundation for STEAM and back to school support.

Hot Stuff! Chile and Children’s Books HLA Podcast, Episode #9 Friday, August 14 Join us for the next episode of HLA’s popular podcast to hear children and youth reading books about chile, staff sharing chile recipes from its community recipe exchange, and more. The podcast is free. Episode #9 is part of the 2020 Bosque Chile Festival programming, a partnership between the NHCC and Bernalillo County.

Save The Date! NM Science Fiesta

REFORMA de Nuevo Mexico will provide a ZOOM link to participate in the the fifth annual New Mexico Science Fiesta. The NM Science Fiesta is one of the largest science education events in New Mexico and REFOMA de Nuevo Mexico is on the planning committee. 

SAVE THE DATE!
The 2020 NM Science Fiesta will take place September 18-26, featuring three different types of virtual events, all free to the public: Science Destinations, Science in the Community, and the Science Fiesta Expo.  NM Science Fiesta Planning Committee, led by Explora, will provide support, ideas, and a Presenter’s Guide.

Back to School STEM "Grab -n-Go"

Back to School STEM "Grab-n-Go" will be distributed in the parking area of the Las Cruces Makers Market while supplies last beginning at 9am on Saturdays in August.  If you miss us, please contact us through the survey available on this blog, and we will mail you a STEM book and "Imagine Your Story" backpack.   Thank you to Explora for providing English/Spanish STEM science experiments and special thanks to The Stocker Foundation.

Science Fair Board & Bilingual STEM Experiments