Meet the Director

Read an interview with Yvonne Thevenot, director of STEM Outreach at The Cooper Union.

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Summer STEM

Summer STEM at The Cooper Union in New York City offers 3- and 6-week programs in design, engineering, and hands-on problem-solving for 9th through 11th-grade students.

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STEM Saturdays

STEM Saturdays immerses students in project-based learning environments that develop their design thinking, problem-based learning, and critical thinking skills.


 

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STEM Days

Middle and High School students, as well as educators, have an opportunity to schedule a visit to The Cooper Union and receive a curated, hands-on experience centered on their choice of one of three exciting tracks: coding and computational thinking, engineering and design, or 3D design and fabrication.

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STEM Inventors

The STEM Inventors program is one in which students enroll in a 36-week STEM Class that involves project-based engineering and design, as well as leadership-based workshops.

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  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.