Teen Skills Initiative (TSI)
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Teen Skills Initiative is a program for urban minority high school girls.
The goals of the program are:
- To support positive youth development through Museum experiences.
- To provide teens with career exploration and preparation opportunities related to museum, education and STEM fields.
- To encourage increased awareness of the BMS throughout the City of Buffalo.
- To encourage involvement in the BMS by an otherwise underserved target audience (teenaged youth).
- To address the need for meaningful youth employment, job skill development, and science content exploration.
Summer Workshops
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TSI runs during the school year as an afterschool program with participants involved in skill enrichment workshops, field trips (including college visits), delivering science outreach programs and working as museum staff.
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| TSI participants leading science outreach at Bethel Head Start summer programs. | |
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| Field trip to Becker Farms to go blueberry picking | |
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| End of the summer trip to Erie, PA – Tom Ridge Environmental Center & Presque Isle | |
During the summer, participants are responsible for leading and assisting science outreach programs, working as museum staff, leading Thursday in the Park (free outdoor science activities in MLK Jr. Park) and representing the BMS at local community festivals. The program also includes weekly field trips and an end of the summer trip.
Applications for our winter session are due on March 12, 2010. Click here for an application.
Staff
Monika L. McFoy
Community Programs Manager
(716) 896-5200, Ext. 343 (phone)
(716) 895-8739 (fax)
mmcfoy@sciencebuff.org
