Education & Outreach
With the help of pocket-sized microcontrollers, the Girls on Fire camp is designed to make programming fun and easy for middle school girls.
More than 40 high school students with strong ties to Colorado's Latino/Chicano communities participated in Aquetza, a Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØEngage summer youth education and leadership training program.
Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder's Upward Bound program works with high school students from eight different reservations across the country to prepare them for the college experience.
A number of professionals are part of a collaborative institute on campus that helps participants improve telephone, television, radio and internet services in developing nations.
This week, Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder will welcome 55 Denver high school students for hands-on engineering design experience and the chance for a $2,500 scholarship.
Middle and high school students from Byers, Elizabeth, Kiowa, Hugo, Limon, Burlington, and other regions spent three days at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder this week as part of a program aimed at giving talented and gifted youth from rural districts a preview of possibilities to come.
The university's Colorado Shakespeare Festival has been awarded $25,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to perform the works of William Shakespeare for middle- and high-school students.
Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØContemporary Dance Works has strengthened its outreach efforts by establishing residencies and developing long-term plans for partnership in communities underserved by the arts.
Colorado Creative Industries, a government division that encourages economic growth through the arts, has tapped Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder experts to help analyze the program's impact.
A group of second-graders has offered input on what's important to them when riding the bus—suggestions that are coming to fruition in a Boulder revitalization project. The children were involved through Growing Up Boulder, an initiative at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder's Community Engagement, Design and Research Center.