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Increasing STEM career interest: The role of out-of-school time STEM programs designed for underrepresented minorities

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  • Maria Dresser
  • Kelly Miller
  • Gerhard Sonnert
  • Philip Sadler

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The creation of a large and diverse STEM workforce is a national imperative in the U.S. Despite significant efforts to improve equitable STEM educational and hiring practices, disparate employment in STEM fields across racial and ethnic demographics persists. Educational researchers and practitioners have increasingly focused on out-of-school time STEM programs as a potential avenue for boosting high school students’ interest in pursuing STEM careers. However, many studies on the efficacy of such programs rely on data from single programs with small sample sizes. The present work uses our nationally representative sample of 14,176 U.S. college students to investigate the relationship between out-of-school time STEM program attendance and students’ reported STEM career interests. Our analysis shows that students who, during their high school years, attended an out-of-school time STEM program designed specifically for underrepresented minority students had 2.4 times the odds of reporting an interest in a STEM career at the end of high school, compared to those who did not attend any out-of-school time STEM program (p

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  • Maria Dresser & Kelly Miller & Gerhard Sonnert & Philip Sadler, 2025. "Increasing STEM career interest: The role of out-of-school time STEM programs designed for underrepresented minorities," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 20(11), pages 1-16, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0336418
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0336418
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