Effects
Working to provide STEM education and exposure for elementary students across New Mexico
Discovery, Excitement, and Collaboration
The beauty of elementary school is that children receive an enjoyable classroom experience and come to love learning. How can they do that without having fun in the classroom? STEM is all about hands-on experiences and through providing novel and exciting experiments, Effects is working to get underserved children excited about learning.
Founded and run by high schoolers, Effects seeks to inspire latent passions in STEM that have yet to be realized due to inequality in the distribution of educational funding.
In New Mexico, there are many schools designated as Title 1, meaning that more than 50 percent of students receive free or reduced lunch.
At many Title 1 elementary schools in the state, a lack of funds has contributed to the drastic downsizing of existing science programs, and resources are all too often stretched thin.
Effects seeks to combat this inequity, bringing inquiry-based science lessons to students at Title 1 schools across New Mexico.
Effects currently operates at six schools in the Albuquerque Area, serving more than 500 students.
Effects currently has about 22 student-teachers and four members of the organization administration.
GET INVOLVED
Volunteer with us
If you are a motivated high school student, you can apply to be one of our teachers. While we can't promise that we will onboard you as a teacher, there is always room on our team for other kinds of help.
If you are not in high school, you can volunteer to help us develop experiments and curriculum.