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The three-week, non-credit course Deairra Fox-Brown participated in aims to show City Colleges of Chicago students paths to four-year STEM degrees and help address the underrepresentation of minority students in science and engineering.

High school senior Samia Chatman spent her summer classifying Oriental Institute specimens as part of the UChicago Youth Internship Program, a paid employment opportunity for local Chicago Public Schools and charter school students facilitated by the Office of Civic Engagement.

An Environmental and Urban Studies major and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies minor who grew up on Chicago’s South Side, rising fourth year Julian Green says participating in the Summer Links internship program channeled passion into meaningful impact.

University of Chicago Psychology and Comparative Human Development professor Susan Levine partnered with UChicago's Neighborhood Schools Program to launch a unique math tutoring program for South Side second graders.

When Michael Rodgers — a computer science and engineering teacher at King College Prep high school in Kenwood— learned about the multi-year TeachQuantum program at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME), he was excited to delve into the current state of quantum science and spark the same interest in his students that he'd felt when he first learned about quantum physics decades ago as an undergraduate student.

Marroquin says her years participating in the University of Chicago’s Collegiate Scholars college readiness and access program (CSP) were a driving factor in her success.