Project SOAR: Fostering Leadership, Resiliency, and Network for Students at Pitt-Johnstown

Abstract

Project SOAR will work with the Academic and Student Affairs Offices, Admission and Financial Aid Offices, local high schools, and local organizations to engage with students from Pitt-Success programs as well as marginalized women students in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields. Project SOAR will offer these students an enrichment program that creates a safe environment encompassing peers and faculty mentors. Students will strengthen their leadership skills via professionals that train them and build a solid foundation for their future career paths. This will foster a sense of community service to these students, with the expectation that they will help other students like them on campus and in neighboring high schools