For Students

In order to increase the numbers of Indigenous North Americans seeking degrees and careers in STEM fields, students must be started on the STEM pathway early. One of the biggest challenges in reaching this goal is ensuring that students, educators, and parents have access to information and resources related to STEM. 

AISES administers many programs, services, and events for pre-college, undergraduate and graduate students designed to increase their access to college and support their success in in preparation for careers in STEM fields. Native college students need professional mentorship and peer support in addition to scholarship support. Students are most successful when they have a network of other Native students, as well as professionals who can provide ongoing support while they are pursuing undergraduate and graduate studies. AISES provides exactly this critically needed support through its programming.

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Our Stories

Kenny Swift Bird / Oglala Lakota Sioux / Colorado School of Mines / Hydrology

Like many other Native students, Kenny Swift Bird was motivated to go to college. He had some great teachers at the high school in his small Nebraska hometown of Chadron, less than an hour’s drive from his Oglala Lakota Tribe’s Pine Ridge...

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Counting On Creativity: Navajo Nation Math Circles Promotes Problem Solving

In the high desert around the capital city of Window Rock on the Navajo Nation, you will find a scene that has been common in Eastern Europe since the 1930s. Schoolchildren are gathered with heads bowed and pencils clutched, intently looking at...

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Onendanegea Rhoades / Cherokee And Nez Perce / Sequoyah High School

When Onen Rhoades wants something, he isn’t afraid to work hard for it. For years he had been interested in building computers but lacked the resources. Still, Rhoades didn’t let that stop him. Once he was old enough to get a job, he began saving...

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