2020 Subaward - Wisconsin - STEAM Team: Education, Entrepreneurship and Empowerment

Location of the Grant:  Nicaragua  

Duration:  2/1/2021 - 11/1/2021 

Description of the Grant: The STEAM Team Learning Center Project seeks to strengthen and empower women and youth of Nicaragua through a 10-month education program. The program promotes the use of technology as a learning tool and enables participants to learn new and practical job skills. By providing communities in Nicaragua with the opportunity to learn new skills locally through a safe in-person and online information technology, the STEAM Team seeks to fill the unmet needs that exist in rural and urban communities including, food insecurity and economic instability.

The goals of the STEAM Team Project include: addressing several social problems such as food insecurity, underemployment, technological divide, needs for social inclusion, and community involvement through civic education. The goal is to create an innovative program, uplifting the communities in Nicaragua during these difficult and challenging times, promote intergenerational relationships by creating opportunities for people to learn from each other such as, young women with technology skills sharing their knowledge and expertise with technology and older women sharing their entrepreneurial and leadership skills, and further positive relationships between the United States and Nicaragua through involvement of alumni of U.W. exchange programs, Wisconsin volunteers and Nicaraguan STEAM TEAM Project participants.  

Key Audience:  Women and youth in Nicaragua  

Key Partners:  Collaborating Organizations include: Altrusa, INATEC, American Association of University Women, US Denton and Funded Transportation programs, WAHCE Organization in Wisconsin (WI Home & Community Educators), University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point, Lions Club International, W/NP members in WI and Nicaragua. 

Tags:  Youth, Education, Workforce Development, Art, Technology