Joint Educational Project

If you have not voted yet, please remember to vote today like our lovely JEPeople did

Happy Halloween! Check out this great video on Pumpkin Towers from our STEM Education Programs:

Kitchen chemistry is awesome! Let’s check the acids and bases of household items in your kitchen! Watch YSP TA Hari Sridhara learn about the acidity of lemons and limes! For the full video and connections to DEI in STEM see YouTube link: https://youtu.be/DCHCdmjYRTw

We are so excited to see all of our programs running so smoothly even in the virtual setting. Check out what our STEM programs have been up to in their sixth week:

Our Virtual Content Hub is LIVE! Featuring over 100 short video lessons for K-12 students, our content hub offers resources to parents and teachers who need some educational but fun content for their kids learning from home. Visit usc.edu/jep to learn more!

It's Trojan Family Weekend and we're throwing it back with a picture to when our JEP family was still all together in person - with everyone from ReadersPlus, to our amazing STEM programs (@jep_stem), to our service-learning PAs #trojanfamily #trojanfamilyweekend

Check out USC Wonderkids' livestream today at 4:40pm featuring Dr. Darin Gray - right here on their Facebook page!

For today's #ReadersplusRiddle we have a mix of literacy and math for you: What number is odd until you take away one letter and it becomes even?

Thank you so much to the Daily Trojan for writing this great article about how JEP has transformed to serve our students, partners, and communities virtually this summer and now into the fall semester, as well.

"I am okay. I'm letting go." If you need a little positive meditation video on this #MindfulnessMonday to get you started into the new week, we recommend checking out the great videos we did in collaboration with @uscdornsife

While the ReadersPlus writing contest under the motto "If I were in charge of the world..." was unfortunately cut short due to the COVID-19 shutdowns, we still collected a few inspiring and interesting answers from our participating schools. Read more on our blog (link in bio) to learn what those elementary students would do if they were in charge of the world.

It's #nationalvoterregistrationday and USC Dornsife is hosting a great story takeover on their account where VoteSC is helping you learn all you need to know about how you can make your voice heard this year! Head on over to Instagram to check it out!

#TBT to a @jep_stem highlight from last week: The STEM kit distribution - and it's not over yet. We're still continuing to get out a lot of different materials Read more about it here: "We love our partner teachers, LAUSD coordinators and our local staff so much. Let me tell you why. Our programs pride themselves with the focus on hands-on and inquiry based STEM learning experiences. COVID-19 put a kink into how we normally run our programs including the distribution o...f supplies to classrooms. The USC Young Scientists Program budgets are set up for students to share supplies in classrooms, not shipping a semesters worth of supplies to the homes of all 2500 participants. We had to get creative! We made our curriculum more at home friendly but there were still a lot of supplies we presumed students wouldn't have. The YSP Team specifically Sabrina Mir put together bulk friendly materials for each grade level and each school. With funding we received this year from the USC Good Neighbors Campaign, we were able to send STEM supply kits home with students." See more

It's so weird seeing the JEP house so empty but it's good to know that it still looks just like it used to. New zoom backgrounds anyone?