Philly STEM Education for Sustainability Showcase

The Philly STEM Education for Sustainability project invites you to attend our end of year showcase, featuring reflections from students and teachers attempting to do “real impact” sustainability work in their communities.

The event takes place on Saturday June 4, 2022 from 9am – 12 Noon at Temple University’s Science Education and Research Center (SERC), 1925 N 12th St, Philadelphia, PA 19122.

Our goal for the showcase is to be a fully transparent account of what happens when teachers and students attempt to do real-impact sustainability projects in their communities — the good, the bad, and the struggle — what we’ve all learned, and how we hope to move the work forward. The event will feature a panel with EFS Philly participants, and a gallery walk where students will present and discuss what they’ve been up to this year.  Light refreshments will be served, and we will also have a raffle to support local grassroots organizations doing sustainability work in Philly.

We would love to have you join us, to connect with our students and teachers, and to continue to ground our work within the broader ecosystem of sustainability in the city at large.

Please register for the event via our Eventbrite (it’s free): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/philly-stem-education-for-sustainability-summer-showcase-tickets-347328207017

Philly STEM Education for Sustainability (EFS Philly) is a PASmart Grant funded initiative based at eleven high schools, where teachers and students have been engaged in a year-long participatory action research and project design process, in collaboration with local community members and organizations. Our goals have been to empower young people to directly address issues of social, environmental, and climate justice in their communities, and make explicit the connections between sustainability and their lived realities. Not so much “environmental education” as making connections between green space and gun violence, or housing insecurity and environmental racism.