STEAM | Cal Lutheran
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Igniting passion in
Science, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Art and Math
Cal Lutheran's STEAM program provides project-based, hands-on learning experiences to help young students get excited about these fields.
Rio School DistrictOctober 21, 20238:30 am - 12:30 pm Find More Details Here
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Conejo Valley Unified School DistrictFebruary 24, 20248:30 am - 12:30 pm
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Fillmore Unified School DistrictApril 20th, 20248:30 am - 12:30 pm Find More Details Here  |
Boosting confidence and knowledge
STEAM | Cal Lutheran helps students become excited about and successful in STEAM fields by following their curiosity and putting their knowledge and ideas to the test through hands-on, inquiry-based learning.
Our goal is to help young people from low-income and/or traditionally underrepresented populations in STEAM discover how these subjects are relevant to their own lives and interests, and to see themselves as capable of pursuing STEAM educational and career paths.
Contact us at steam@callutheran.edu
Our instructors and mentors include Cal Lutheran faculty and students, and community volunteers.
LEAD FACULTY
Megan Fung
Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Michael Abdelsayed
Assistant Professor of Biology
Jason Kingsbury
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Dana Harmon
Assistant Professor of Biology
Katherine Hoffmann
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Michael Gagliardo
Professor of Mathematics
In 2022, STEAM | Cal Lutheran hosted events at San Cayetano Elementary School and Rio Plaza Elementary School. Six CLU professor along with multiple student ambassador visited each school and hosted a variety of activites, spanning all STEAM subject, for students to learn and participate in. Students and their families were invited to learn and hear from the experiences of CLU professors and students.
Students from both elementary schools were later invited to the CLU Campus to tour and hear guest speaker, astronaut José Hernández, MS, share his journey from migrant farmworker to NASA astronaut.
Hernández spent much of his childhood on what he calls "the California circuit," traveling with his family from Mexico to Southern California each March, then working northward to the Stockton area by November, picking strawberries and cucumbers at farms along the route. After high school Hernández earned a degree in electrical engineering from the University of the Pacific in Stockton. He then continued his studies at UC Santa Barbara, where he was awarded a full graduate scholarship in electrical engineering. In 2004, NASA selected Hernández as a member of its 19th class of astronauts. He was chosen for a mission in 2007 and flew as the flight engineer on a 14-day mission in 2009 aboard the space shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station.
Event Pictures
Director of Hispanic-Serving Institution Initiatives and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice Programs
STEAM Student Ambassador
STEAM Student Ambassador
STEAM | Cal Lutheran is a partnership program with Hispanic-Serving Institution initiatives at California Lutheran University.
Funding for STEAM | Cal Lutheran has generously been made possible by the Amgen Foundation.
