Mid-Jersey Green STREAM

Mid-Jersey Green STREAM (Green STREAM) is centered around North Brunswick Township Middle School, at the crossroads of Middlesex County in NJ. It is a Title I school housing all district grades 7-8 students,  47% of whom are economically disadvantaged.  The school receives students from the Linwood School, grades 5-6. The district has been dubbed one of the ten most underfunded schools in NJ, and the tenth most diverse school district in NJ. The population of multilingual learners is growing. 

Green STREAM is focused on the North Brunswick Township middle level students, to cultivate the development of innovative STEM/STEAM/STREAM career and academic awareness and exploration programs focused on engaging career-focused and future ready instruction, unique experiences, and skills, mindset, STEM identity and practices development for students in the middle grades. The goal is to accelerate learning and support STEM workforce development by catching students before they leave the STEM pipeline. 

North Brunswick Township Middle School has numerous STEM assets.  This initiative seeks to support the braiding of assets in a framework to enhance delivery, access, equity and differentiation to student need and level of readiness through a middle level STEM career exploration pathways program, called STEMSCAPE, the STEM Student Career and Academic Pathways Exploration Program as a structure that will become the front-facing awareness and motivating interest to career exploration in STEM in the middle levels.

The STEMSCAPE program will have an associated STEM Student Advisory Group to give students voice in the direction of the program and ownership in its success as the key stakeholders in their own achievement and future.