Zakat Foundation of America donors and Chicago Youth Centers coordinators teamed up from January to April to give 322 South Side girls and boys hands-on lessons about weather cycles, astrophysics, photo digitizing, and an array of life and marketing skills.
“Thanks to the generous support of Zakat Foundation of America, Chicago Youth Centers (CYC) offers robust and comprehensive STEAM curricula to youth at four sites,” said Anya Rath, CYC communications coordinator, noting these gifts helped children from the North Lawndale, Bronzeville, Bridgeport, and South Shore communities.
STEAM has its roots in the U.S. government’s STEM strategy to advance educational instruction from preschool to college in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. The "A" in the CYC acronym stands for its added training in the Arts.