Million Girls Moonshot | June 2025 STEM Resources

Career Navigation Modules for Middle and High School Students

This Career Navigation toolkit supports high school students - as well as their advisors and advocates - to develop a strong plan that reflects their personal, educational and career interests. The Toolkit is a set of customizable resources that were developed by Shared Lane in partnership with the NYC Public Schools Office of Student Pathways.

All students develop a strong plan that includes career interests. The toolkit uniquely situates postsecondary planning within a context of career pathways, explores the promise of workforce training, and offers guidance on engaging with a segment of NYC’s robust postsecondary education and training ecosystem.  Many of these resources are student facing, some are downloadable for families and caregivers, and others are designed to be used by counselors, advisors, youth advocates and trainers of these groups.

Resources

Making Afterschool Math Fun

Looking for a way to make math more engaging? Afterschool Math Curriculum for youth in grades 3-8 is exciting, supports youth in developing a math identity and connects to their lived experiences. Each lesson also has explicit connections to careers with activities for youth to go into connections. The entire curriculum is free.

Museum of Science Boston Free High-Quality Curricula for PK-8

The Museum of Science, Boston’s Youth Engineering Solutions (YES) offers a collection of PK-8 engineering and STEM curricula designed to engage students in authentic, hands-on challenges connected to their lives and communities. The materials apply a model for equity-oriented and socially engaged engineering learning that encourages all to see themselves as engineers and passionate problem solvers poised to make a difference in the world. Curricula include 12 engaging, standards-aligned units for elementary and middle school grades and out-of-school settings. All curriculum guides can be downloaded for free. Pre-made materials kits for classrooms and enrichment settings can also be purchased.

10 Ways to Get Youth Excited about STEM Careers
Inspiring students to pursue careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields is essential in today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape. STEM disciplines are at the forefront of innovation and progress – driving breakthroughs that shape the future of the world. Encouraging students to embrace STEM subjects prepares them for successful careers and fosters a workforce of passionate, capable STEM workers prepared to address complex global challenges. This site lists 10 activities to engage youth in thinking about STEM careers. 

YES (Youth Engineering Solutions) Careers
Help youth discover career paths and broaden their perspectives of engineering and other STEM fields with our YES Careers resources! Download our free Careers for Engineers posters; you can have students review them before or after teaching a related engineering unit or post them on the wall to refer to throughout the year. Access free Careers for Engineers Posters.

Connecting Learning Activities to STEM Careers
From Click2Science, this excellent guide includes everything needed to conduct a professional development session or do the activities. The easy to download handouts include links to the video-based learning module and hands-on learning activities. 

Million Girls Moonshot is a national project funded by the STEM Next Opportunity Fund to support out-of-school programs to inspire one million more girls to get excited about STEM in the next five years.

This year, PSAYDN will provide STEM education assets to educators across the state. The assets are directed at OST educators, but many can be used by teachers in schools as well.

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