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What Future Will You Create?

The future isn't written in the stars. It's up to the next generation to create it.
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Apprenticeships for New Mexico Girls in Tech

STEMarts Lab offers paid year-long apprenticeships to girls aged 14-19 living in Northern New Mexico. Apprentices work with the STEMarts creative team on emerging media arts projects and meet professional scientists to develop science literacy in the fields of particle physics, astrophysics and space science to become informed and creative planetary citizens.

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STEAM Youth Leadership Program

The STEAM Youth Leadership Program includes the Ambassador program and Internship program which provide training and professional mentorship for youth aged 14-25. Students receive a stipend while gaining experience in event production, international collaboration, sci-art communication, Extended Reality (XR), and digital media creation.

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Space Youth Leaders – Taos Chapter

The Space Youth Leaders – Taos Chapter is a place-based initiative that offers students workforce opportunities through paid internships and student-led projects. The program fosters space literacy, introduces students to careers in the space and science industries, and facilitates the creation of community-driven projects like Space Tourism and AR space experiences in the Taos community.

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STEAM Design Challenges

As part of our creative projects, STEMarts Lab provides an ongoing series of STEAM Design Challenges and Educator Tools. Our latest Space-for-Earth Design Challenge is coming soon!

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What’s Happening

  • Space [XR] Station Lands at Atomic 66
    We’re excited to bring a SPACE[XR] Station to this year’s Atomic 66 Festival in Albuquerque — an immersive sci-art experience that explores the intersection of space, technology, and youth creativity.
  • STEMarts [AR] AstroTour: A New Way to See the Stars
    STEMarts Lab is pleased to announce the launch of the STEMarts [AR] AstroTour, an evening of sky gazing and storytelling through art, science, and technology. This special event is part of our continued collaboration with the Harwood Museum of Art and UNM Taos, and is sponsored by the Lor Foundation.
  • STEMarts Lab x Harwood Museum: Exploring Space Through Art and Code
    STEMarts Lab will be partnering with the Harwood Art Museum to bring its creative coding students to the museum for a special tour of the Charles Ross exhibit. Ross’ space-inspired art will inform the student’s generate art visualizations created through the Google Code Next Affiliate program.

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Space Messengers

STEMarts’ current project, Space Messengers, is a traveling mixed reality installation. Students become part of our professional team of artists, scientists and experts, as we explore the universe from diverse interdisciplinary perspectives.
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What our Students are Saying

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Amelia Martinez, Taos, 2022 Apprentice

“A valuable skill that I learned as an ambassador was cooperation when problem solving under pressure. Whether we needed to factory reset a headset during an event or account for something unexpected we all worked together and got it done and that strengthened my problem solving skills and my ability to work under pressure and especially cooperate under pressure. This was further enhanced by the fact that STEMarts does a great job of creating community and finding everyone’s common ground so you make friends with everyone which is great for cooperation.”

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Megan Odom, Santa Fe, Apprentice 2022

“Throughout my apprenticeship, I learned such an array of valuable life, career, and scientific skills. Subsequently, being in a group of like-minded young girls was such an amazing opportunity. Seeing both myself and our future in these capable young girls was a beautiful experience. Being given so many chances to interact with people in a scientific context has also helped me realize my passion for community work. I believe that science and art are very closely connected. Community connection is my connection between performing in my chosen art: theater, and researching my passion: science.”

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Dominique Vigil, Taos Pueblo, 2022 Apprentice

“The apprenticeship program exposed me to various STEM opportunities and possible career paths that I would have otherwise never gotten the chance to experience. More specifically, the STEMarts Bootcamp at the HIVE, where I got to spend my time building meaningful connections with amazing young women and participating in incredible learning opportunities. More specifically, the seminar involving the Oculus headset opened me to a whole new world of interests, which include video development, coding, and humanitarian aid. I remember taking a moment to step-back and feeling the happiness in the room and realizing how much STEM and art has to offer.”

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Shaylee Mirabal, Taos Pueblo, 2023 Apprentice

“I absolutely love and enjoy working for STEMarts Labs. It has been such a wonderful experience. While working, I have met so many great and intelligent people from all over the world and have learned a wide variety of skills that could be applied to many other jobs or even just in life as well. I have been able to greatly improve my communication and social skills as well as my time management and creative thinking skills. On top of acquiring and improving different skill sets, I have been able to learn so much about outer space specifically, but also information about a wide range of areas of science. Areas such as particle physics, climatology, and even some philosophy. I even was able to learn about space law and different frameworks for space exploration.”

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Alyson Martinez, Taos Pueblo, 2022-23

“My time working with STEMarts Lab has been unlike any other experience I have ever had. I never thought that I would learn about scientific topics such as astrophysics, biology, and space law like I have with the group of apprentices. I am grateful that a group like STEMarts lab exists within the Taos community. I recognize many community youth members that are thinking about what they want to do career wise or looking for something to do that meets the criteria of what they are interested in. I am lucky to be a part of such an amazing group of young women that are, like me, striving to be the best version of themselves as they can be.

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Thank You To Our Sponsors

STEMarts projects are made possible in part by the Citizen Diplomacy Action Fund for U.S. Alumni; an opportunity sponsored by the U.S. Department of State with funding provided by the U.S. Government and administered by Partners of the Americas. This project is supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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