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The K-12 University Center's move off campus and into downtown Rochester was made to expand room for more work within the facility as the department develops additional partnerships and programs. It was previously housed at a modular unit adjacent to Brown Hall that has since been demolished to make space for a new science research center.

Just like fingerprints, everyone is different. It’s one of the messages in “Happy in our Skin,” a picture book about the beauty and uniqueness of everyone, and something similar that Margaret's House Director Jennifer Tills hopes to showcase during an event the childcare center is hosting to help connect families within the Rochester Institute of Technology community.

Rochester Business Journal reports that more than 50 underrepresented public and charter school students in grades third through sixth participated in the inaugural AT&T ROC Jr. Game Dev Camp Powered by RIT.

Thanks to a grant awarded before the pandemic to RIT’s K-12 University Center by the Army Educational Outreach Program, it allowed funds to go toward free, hands-on STEM experiences for middle and high school students this summer through Camp Tiger. Inspired by AEOP’s eCybermission, and Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, the camp offerings focused on various opportunities through the U.S. Army-based program, in addition to learning skills needed to prepare students to conduct their own research.

Spectrum News features NTID’s Explore Your Future camp, a six-day program for deaf and hard-of-hearing students from all over, to explore possible careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math).

Rochester Institute of Technology’s imaging science department is collaborating with the Army Educational Outreach Program Apprenticeships and Fellowship for the first time this summer to provide high school seniors with a paid experience to learn about the discipline through innovation and research.

Mariam Khalil, 15, a camper at RIT’s Camp Tiger, joined two summer camp experiences this year – SMASH Camp and Community STEM Challenge. She said it’s her first educational experience in more than two years after the Taliban gained control in her country and has forbidden all girls from getting an education, no matter their age. She’ll start school this fall in Rochester, and has an interest for subjects such as math and science.

A program supported by Rochester Institute of Technology’s K-12 University Center is providing an Ohio high school student with the chance to work alongside professional researchers, and undergrad and graduate students to help bolster his exposure in physics. The summer apprenticeship opportunity through the Army Educational Outreach Program is administered by RIT K-12 on behalf of the U.S. Army, and provides paid internship-like experiences in science, technology, engineering and math for high school through postdoctoral individuals at Army labs and partner universities across the country.

As students from across the country apply to apprenticeship and fellowship experiences through the Army Educational Outreach Program, a goal of its centers, laboratories, partner sites and program staff is to make sure students are set up for success. It’s a collaboration that happens with program managers and those administering AEOP at Rochester Institute of Technology.

South Dakota Mines, a university in Rapid City, South Dakota, is 1,506 miles from Rochester Institute of Technology. Where the two are connected, however, is with its partnership through Army Educational Outreach Program Apprenticeships and Fellowships.

Alexia Savage, a STEP scholar from Rush-Henrietta, has an academic resume that trumps many adults’. Just from this year’s Terra Fair, the 16-year-old high school junior walked away with seven awards, honors and other recognitions that also helped punch her ticket to present at Genius Olympiad -- an international science fair hosted by RIT.

Seniors involved in STEP through Rochester Institute of Technology’s K-12 University Center who have committed to pursuing higher education. Colleges and universities scholars plan to attend are Alfred State, Finger Lakes Community College, Gannon University, Manhattan College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Monroe Community College, Niagara University, North Carolina A&T University, North Carolina Central University, Roberts Wesleyan, St. John Fisher, SUNY Cobleskill, University of Rochester and Wingate University.