The BranchOut! Blog

On June 15, 2019, BranchOut! STEM Education had its fourth annual training at the James Lee Community Center in Falls Church, Virginia. Founded in 2016, the organization’s main purpose is to spread STEM education to underserved communities and improve inter-community understanding through peer-mentoring. Mentors serve at community centers, homeless shelters, and summer schools as of 2019. Dr. Yuhsien Wu, a Harvard graduate from the School of Education, and Mr. Richard Wang we

On Saturday, September 14, 2019, about 40 BranchOut! student mentors and parents took part in BranchOut!'s DC National Mall trash pickup event. About 10 student leaders got to the National Mall at 8am to set up and meet with the staff from the National Park Service. The actual trash pick-up event started around 9:30am after the team was debriefed. This was our first trash pick-up event, and BranchOut! team was proud to be able to take care of our environment by collecting

This past summer marked the 4th year of BranchOut! STEM Education’s mentoring program, with its largest range of mentors and mentees yet, consisting of 132 mentors and 9 mentoring locations serving over 600 students. BranchOut! mentors have been able to make strides in closing achievement gaps in education and driving meaningful change in their communities by designing innovative curriculum, forming connections, and giving support to students at various community centers and

Arriving at Patrick Henry Homeless Shelter, I thought that similar to the children at the Willston Community Center, they merely came to the shelter for a summer camp. But, it was when I heard the kids say that they were going up to their apartment, saying that they were neighbors, that I realized that these kids did not have a place other than a shelter to call home. When I asked one of the older boys what school he was going to, he shook his head, saying that he did not kno

BranchOut! will be holding a trash pickup at the DC National Mall from 9AM to 12PM on September 14th, 2019. This is another way for BrachOut! to give back to the community while broadening our reach in the DMV area. You can sign-up for this event at this link: https://forms.gle/143y3jLjwRmtBjy17 Please also look at the items that we need to bring in for the event, and if you are able to bring in something please also select the item(s) & quantity you will be bringing. If y