49ers STEM Leadership Institute
This project's parent organization is San Francisco 49ers
It operates in United States
It uses American Football
Entered the Best New Project
More about 49ers STEM Leadership Institute
The 49ers STEM Leadership Institute’s vision is to be a leader in STEM education, preparing and inspiring talent-ed learners to meet the challenges of the global society through innovation and creative problem solving. Our community has out-of-school STEM programs for students who are behind grade level but there no programs that focus on building STEM leaders out of academically talented students in our public school system. The 49ers STEM Leadership Institute’s vision is to fill this gap.
By using sports as a draw and lessons developed in collaboration with the 49ers Museum’s Denise DeBartolo York Education Center’s STEMZONE, the 49ers have developed an innovative “STEM of Football” curriculum that introduced 20K+ students to STEM topics through their passion for football and sport in its first year of operation. While students are learning about the most effective way to kick a field goal, they don’t realize that they are studying physics. While they are calculating game statistics, they don’t realize they are studying math. Once the spark is lit, it can ignite a passion which carries into the classroom.