Abstract

STEM Excellence & Leadership is an out-of-school program that takes place in rural school districts throughout the state of Iowa. Teachers discover talented middle-school students with interests in math and science, increase their aspirations, and engage them in advanced, in-depth coursework to prepare them for STEM opportunities at the highest levels.

Selected Publications

  • Assouline, S. G., Mahatmya, D., Ihrig, L., Lynch, S., & Karakis, N., (2023). A theoretically based STEM talent development program that bridges excellence gaps. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1522(1), 109-116. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14978
  • Ihrig, L., Assouline, S. G., Mahatmya, D., Lynch, S.G., (2022). Developing Students’ Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent in Rural After-School Settings: Rural Educators' Affordances and Barriers. Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 45(4), 381-403. https://doi.org/10.1177/01623532221123786
  • Assouline, S. G., Mahatmya, D., Ihrig, L., & Lane, E., (2021). High-achieving rural middle-school students' academic self-efficacy and attributions in relationship to gender. High Ability Studies, 32(2), 143-169. https://doi.org/10.1080/13598139.2020.1740582
  • Ihrig, L. M., Lane, E., Mahatmya, D., & Assouline, S. G., (2018). STEM excellence and leadership program: Increasing the level of STEM challenge and engagement for high-achieving students in economically disadvantaged rural communities. Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 41(1), 24-42. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162353217745158
  • Assouline, S. G., Ihrig, L. M., & Mahatmya, D., (2017). Closing the excellence gap: Investigation of an expanded talent search model for student selection into an extracurricular STEM program in rural middle schools. Gifted Child Quarterly, 61(3), 250-261. https://doi.org/10.1177/0016986217701833

"The program just gives them access to opportunities they wouldn’t have otherwise. There are less resources in rural areas compared to cities. After-school tutoring and academic camps don’t exist in the same numbers or at all."

Andrea Reilly
Atlantic Middle School

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