AISD's Carter Junior High, in partnership with the General Motors Foundation and LULAC National Education Services Centers, will be the site for the first DFW-area Science Corps program that will encourage students to pursue science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields by exposing them to real-world STEM applications and problems.

Students selected for the Science Corps will participate after school twice a week for 30 weeks, meeting with two certified science and/or math teachers.

The Science Corps program emphasizes making program activities fun and interesting, while effectively increasing mastery of STEM subjects by combining hands-on, inquiry-based learning, field excursions, exposing students to STEM professionals and developing group cohesion and a scholastic identity around science.