Meet the Team

 Science & Technology Green STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Additive & Mathematics) After School Program in collaboration with Bain+2 After School Program in Cranston, RI.  We meet with up to fifteen youth every day for two hours during the school year along with high school students serving as Mentors, or Scientist #1.

This proce

 Science & Technology Green STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Additive & Mathematics) After School Program in collaboration with Bain+2 After School Program in Cranston, RI.  We meet with up to fifteen youth every day for two hours during the school year along with high school students serving as Mentors, or Scientist #1.

This process is our "Talent Pipeline" for BIPOC and other students to preparing for college.  Since 2017, we have helped sponsor youth six hours a day during the summer for six tough weeks learning the knowledge and skills of STEAM.  A total of thirty plus youth during the year in this program alone using "Hands-On" science and technology.  We use Next Generation Standards supplemented with Basic and Advance Electronics, Additive Manufacturing, and soon Certifications for older students in 12th grade through SOLIDWORKS.   We have developed a number of collaborations with higher education.  We help those seeking new opportunities, re-inventing their job and career needs to enhance and advance socioeconomically...We "Give a Hand-Up, Not a Hand-Out"!

All of our collaborators, staff, students, and community members support us in STEAM, making them Scientist in their own right...collecting data, helping youth and dedicated adults promote our primary Goal:  To extend, advance, promote, and support STEAM among those individuals and families that would otherwise not seek jobs and careers i

All of our collaborators, staff, students, and community members support us in STEAM, making them Scientist in their own right...collecting data, helping youth and dedicated adults promote our primary Goal:  To extend, advance, promote, and support STEAM among those individuals and families that would otherwise not seek jobs and careers in STEAM.

Who are the staff, you may ask?  Our staff is part-time volunteers, hourly Consultants, and the CEO that pitches in as Instructor, Tutor, Mentor, Project Director, and all-around problem solver.

The Board consists of:

Christopher D. Hunter, PhD

Board President

Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Rhode Island

Mr. Kayode K. Idowu

Board Vice President

Software IT Expert & Consultant

Mrs. Lucia Monteiro

Treasurer & Consultant

Board Secretary & Consultant

Gretchen Macht,  PhD

Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering and Eric Ricci, DMD of Ricci Family Denistry

R&D Committee- Co-Chairs with Two Anonymous Board Members

Mr. David Collier, M.S.

Educational Specialist &

Providence School Department

Our Team!

All of our staff have degrees, multiple degrees, certification(s), or training in one of the fields of STEAM, Literacy, and/or Behavioral Sciences to integrate a curriculum of study for job, career, or both!

We recently invested time in helping to form a new company:

Quantum Photonics, R&D, LLC

A start-up research organization is seeking a P

All of our staff have degrees, multiple degrees, certification(s), or training in one of the fields of STEAM, Literacy, and/or Behavioral Sciences to integrate a curriculum of study for job, career, or both!

We recently invested time in helping to form a new company:

Quantum Photonics, R&D, LLC

A start-up research organization is seeking a Provisional Patent and needs Investors; we will be one of those investors, inquire for more information.

We also work with the OneCranston/HEZ (Health Opportunity Zone) to increase community engagement and Public Health. In Rhode Island, among cultures, ethnicities, and socioeconomic enclaves, we also work to deter racism.

We have helped young entrepreneurs to get their feet wet in creating small businesses during 2020 and will continue for the next five summers, in collaboration with Camp Excel www.cranstonafterschool.com/.

We want to thank our supporters:  the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the Doris Duke Foundation, New England Board Cox Charities, the United Way of Rhode Island, the RI Foundation soon, and all our individualized donors.

If you would like to donate to our efforts, please do...

Our collaboration has developed!