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"The solution...

by Heather Barber on March 5th, 2012

to America's competitiveness problem is to activate the hidden workforce of young men and women who have traditionally been underrepresented in STEM careers - African Americans, American Indians, and Latinos."

- National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc. 2008

SMASH 2011 Program Overview and Evaluation Results Report

by Level Playing Field Institute on February 9th, 2012

In 2011 LPFI designed and implemented a rigorous research and evaluation plan of the SMASH Program.  Read the SMASH 2011 Program Overview and Evaluation Report here. 

Codecademy and The White House Announce Code Summer+ Youth Education Program - J. Constine, TechCrunch

by Level Playing Field Institute on January 18th, 2012

From: http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/17/code-summer-plus/
by Josh Constine, posted Jan 17, 2012

"Today, Codecademy in conjunction with The White House announced a new program to educate the nation’s underprivileged and disconnected youth: Code Summer+.

LPFI Receives Grant from Verizon Foundation to Support SMASH & SMASHCAST

by Level Playing Field Institute on January 10th, 2012

Level Playing Field Institute’s SMASH Academy Receives Grant from Verizon
$30,000 grant to help close opportunity gap for students of color in STEM

Download Press Release here.

Summer honors academy helps Oakland youth get involved with science, math - J. Hinton, SMASH Scholar in Oakland Local

by Level Playing Field Institute on October 24th, 2011

Summer honors academy helps Oakland youth get involved with science, math

Op Ed by Joshua Hinton
Fri, 2 Sep at 6:16am
http://oaklandlocal.com/posts/2011/08/summer-honors-academy-helps-oakland-youth-get-involved-science-math

Leveling up STEM’s playing field - J. Fensterwald, TOP-Ed

by Level Playing Field Institute on October 24th, 2011

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    • "Getting Students of Color Hooked on Math and Science" - T. Barseghian, KQED MindShift

    by Level Playing Field Institute on October 11th, 2011

    KQED MindShift Blog by Tina Barseghian
    http://mindshift.kqed.org/2011/10/a-future-in-math-and-science-for-stude...
    October 5, 2011

    "Juan Hernandez has had a life-changing summer. The 14-year-old math and science whiz got to geek out with like-minded kids for five weeks on the lush Stanford campus, learning about everything from computer programming to the infection rate of HIV.

    Smashing Bias Research Prize Winners

    by Heather Barber on October 5th, 2011

    Lead Prizes
    "Predicting Lawyer Effectiveness" Marjorie Shultz and Sheldon Zedeck, University of California Berkeley

    "STEMming the TIDE" Jane Stout, Nilanjana Dasgupta, Matthew Hunsinger, Melissa McManus University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Honorable Mentions
    "Gender, Race, and Meritocracy in Organizational Careers" Emilio Castilla, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Tax Returns Available Upon Request

    by Heather Barber on August 23rd, 2011

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    Tax Returns Available Upon Request

    by Level Playing Field Institute on August 22nd, 2011

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