Community Outreach

Smithsonian Science Summer School (S4)

In a proactive response to reversing “summer slide”1 2—a decline in skills that students learn during the school year—the Smithsonian Science Education Center, in collaboration with Horizons Greater Washington, launched the Smithsonian Science Summer School (S4) in 2018. Horizons Greater Washington empowers economically disadvantaged students to reach their full potential and serves local Title 1 youth at three different campuses in the DC area.
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Always Think Like a Scientist (ATLAS)

ATLAS is a place-based, community-based afterschool program that uses a near-peer mentoring model - local high school students (typically working in pairs) serve as a “Lead Explorers” (peer teachers) of an afterschool course for middle schools students.
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