USC Wonderkids- Space Scientist

USC Wonderkids is an after-school, hands-on informal STEAM education program that serves K-5 students in seven participating LAUSD schools under Dornsife’s umbrella of the Joint Educational Project. The program provides inquiry-based science education and learning materials to students in the community. In addition to exposing children to advanced scientific fields and concepts at an early age, the program also serves to introduce students to professionals in specific STEAM fields. This offers socially and culturally diverse role models in science with the ultimate goal of encouraging these students to pursue their own scientific education and endeavors. The topics for Spring 2021 are animal science, polar science, anatomy, space science, stem cells, and dermatology/ surgery.