Access to Advancement, Part I: MIND Alliance--Helping Minority Students with Disabilities Succeed in STEM

Published: Feb. 9, 2010, 5 a.m.

MIND Alliance is designed to increase interest in STEM fields among minority students with disabilities, and helps them transition into STEM-based academic programs and careers. The program emphasizes cultural sensitivity, while offering tutoring, mentoring, internships, and career assessment and counseling. And through field trips and hands-on activities, students in the program learn that science can be fun and interesting.