We leverage our corporate partner’s investment of time, resources, opportunities to prepare tomorrow’s STEM leaders. Technology Access Foundation (TAF) is turning 20 next year! We invite you to join us in our mission toward college and career readiness for each of our students in STEM and beyond at our Corporate Alliance Breakfast, sponsored by Google, on November 16, 2015. Register before November 11, 2015 to save your seat.

TAF is seeking your advice: how can we better prepare students for your workforce?

Join TAF for an interactive discussion: learn about the 1000+ students we’ve already sent to your workforce, and learn how we’ve evolved.

Agenda includes:

• The History of TAF & Corporations
• Featured Corporate Sponsorship- Wimmer Solutions
• Interactive Corporate Feedback Session

TAF is a nonprofit leader in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. We address three problems that keep students of color away from STEM: low expectations, a shortage of role models in STEM, and a lack of access to a quality, STEM-focused education.  

Authentic student learning must extend beyond the classroom and campus. Since its inception in 1996, TAF has been a stalwart partner of community, industry, and higher education as a means to bring essential relevance, adult relationships, and rigor to the learning process.

In 2005, TAF formalized a framework for the role of a school as part of a larger ecosystem of student-learning supported by adult partnerships from across a diverse spectrum of institutions and backgrounds. Guided by this model, we made history in 2008 by becoming the first public-private STEM school (non-charter) in the nation focused on serving students of color and those from low income backgrounds, TAF Academy .95% of Seniors graduate TAF Academy, 100% of those students are accepted to a college or university of their choice.  

Our programs integrate STEM skills with reading, writing, art, history and other subjects. Students are given a guiding question and work together in teams, learning from and teaching each other. That’s how they learn to ask the right questions, analyze data and apply academic knowledge creatively and effectively to solving real-world problems. TAF is creating a generation of leaders who understand the power of community and the need to be an active part of it.

Our students benefit from your partnership.

In the 2014-2015 school year, Wimmer Solutions gave a contribution of $25,000 sponsoring the Lighthouse, TAF Academy’s Engineering and Design Lab, where students understand what it takes to innovate: ideas, design thinking, prototyping, and testing. Follow the Lighthouse on Facebook to read more stories about student projects and presentations.

Fred Hutch and TAF Academy partner together to provide students professional mentoring and experience in biomedical research through their internship program. Students start in 10th grade and continue for three years. This program helps ”increase our participating students’ likelihood of attending college and obtaining a graduate degree in science.”  Read more about our dynamic partnership with Fred Hutch.

TAF has a record of success. We don’t need to scrap public education and start from the beginning- we’ve already shown we can make a difference in our public school system by building on our communities’ existing investments. We are in classrooms, doing the work and getting real results. Now, we’re poised to reach even more students and lead systemic change. Today, we continue our legacy of innovative partnership throughout all of our work but we can’t do it alone.