STEM Starter Academy at MCC

STEM Starter Academy!

By taking advantage of our services and learning opportunities, you will enter the workforce skilled and prepared.

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MCC's STEM Starter Academy (SSA) offers you support and resources that will lead you to your success in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields.

By providing a variety of opportunities through programs and services for STEM students, SSA fosters:

• Student awareness
• Interest
• Academic success

We aim to increase the amount of successful students in STEM pathways programs, our mission is to:

• Recruit
• Retain
• Graduate

Launched in 2013, SSA was created to build, enhance and maintain our ability to graduate and transfer students in the STEM associate degree and certificate programs.

Supported by the State Department of Higher Education and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, SSA's goal is to match the state's workforce needs in the STEM career fields.

Objectives

SSA will help to address gaps, promote alignment, and build capacity to meet your needs and refine the model of articulated student support services and structured STEM curriculum.

This approach will:

• Improve student retention
• Enhance student readiness for and recruiting into STEM pathway programs
• Increase student awareness of and access to STEM programs of study and career opportunities
• Increase completion through award of certificates or degrees and pathways

Initiatives

• Pathfinders program
• STEM related events and opportunities
• Scholarships and other funding opportunities
• Study space and computer access
• Sponsored summer programs

View video about SSA.