SciTech2U Inc

SciTech2U's mission is provide to quality, innovative STEAM education to underrepresented K-12 students, enhancing knowledge and inspiring interest in STEAM fields through experiential learning.

Our vision is to nurture future scientists through hands on experience to ensure equal access to STEAM careers.

SciTech2U is an organization that rose from the ashes of a shattered dream of a young man. In 2009, Zainab Abbas was a professor at a local for-profit college, and she had a young African-American male student who was tardy and absent frequently and did not apply himself in class. However, Zainab saw potential in him. One day she pulled him aside in the chemical and glassware room and spoke to him, very much like a mother to her son or big sister to her brother. He listened. His grades went from Fs to As, and he began to attend class regularly and on time. "Two weeks later, the president of the school walked into my classroom with two plain clothed police officers who handcuffed my now stellar student and hauled him away. There was nothing I could do. There was nothing I could say to change their minds. I could not even tell them the progress he had made. His dream was shattered,” Zainab said to herself. She never saw him again. Shortly after that experience, Zainab founded SciTech2U in April 2011 to inspire young Black and Brown youth who are at risk of academic impoverishment to exciting ways of learning STEM subjects. This would be her way of nurturing children who may suffer life challenges so that they could prosper later in life and break the “pre-school-to-prison pipeline.” Zainab started SciTech2U with just a few hundred dollars of her own money in 2011, and in 2018, she filed for and received SciTech2U’s 501(c)3 status. Since its founding, SciTech2U has grown from a small after-school program operated in Zainab’s home with four students to a fully-fledged after-school and out-of-school program serving more than 150. students a year.

SciTech2U offers summer camps, after school, winter camp, STEM fest and spring camp STEM Programs for students in K-12.

SciTech2U programs range from genetics, robotics, coding, aeronautics, chemistry, environmental and water stewardship, oncology, anatomy and physiology, engineering, professional spearker series, energy and more.

SciTech2U also offers comprehensive STEM kits and curriculums to schools education organizations.

Volunteer opportunities include, data entry, organization, kit packing, clean up, teaching, and more.