Engineer for the Week: Bring free, high-quality STEM learning to your students!

BECOME AN EFTW FACILITATOR!

EFTW is led by facilitators who are ages 18+ from any background or field. Designed to be delivered in-person or virtually, EFTW facilitators do not need any prior technical experience. Our facilitators come from diverse backgrounds: some are afterschool leaders, in-school educators, nonprofit leaders, or community center coordinators.

HEAR FROM FORMER FACILITATORS!

“I know any computer science we do in afterschool will be the only formal coding exposure they get. But I also know my students are just as capable and interested in these subjects as students in any other school, and that afterschool is a perfect space for them to discover these kinds of interests and skills. Facebook’s Engineer for the Week program gave us the resources and support we needed to spark those moments of discovery. I was blown away by how much this program grew my students’ confidence and inspired them to see themselves as leaders.”

Andrea Bridges, The CARE Center, New Hope, Alabama

 “EFTW works beautifully for afterschool programs. The challenge it poses is to create a scenario that mirrors the daily routine of a software engineer in order to give students a real-world look into a potential career.”

Johanna Friedel, Afterschool Center of Education at Greenville ISD, Texas

“Watching the students work on this project was incredibly inspiring. It reminded me how very passionate, focused and motivated they are around social issues they and their peers face. At the end of the day, the students were able to feel ownership of the topics they chose, which led to some very engaging dialogue prior to actually building the chatbot. I was blown away by the speed with which they were able to comprehend complex computer algorithms and then optimize them.”

Gwynette Williams, Collective for Youth, Omaha, Nebraska

Register your program today!