We partnered with the Los Alamos National Laboratory Community Outreach (LANL CPO)  in 2009. We wish to thank Carole Rutten and Janelle Vigil-Maestas for being the first to support the STEMarts program when it began, as a pilot program at Taos Academy. We later received a LANL Small Grant to run the first of a series of workshops that inspired what is now the STEM Institute at Taos Academy.

In 2013 we again collaborated with LANL CPO to create a unique STEM Challenge in celebration of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s 70th anniversary.  The Los Alamos STEM Challenge gave students from Northern New Mexico in grades 6-12 the unique opportunity to envision the next 70 years of discovery at LANL. Students developed  21st century skills as they collaborated in teams to research LANL solutions to real-world challenges.  They applied creativity and critical thinking skills as they visualized their own solutions through posters, videos, apps or essays describing potential future projects at LANL.