This Outreach Program is devised primarily as a timely answer to the low rate of minority’s enrollment in science and engineering programs. The program aims as well at addressing the academic difficulties experienced by this category in attempting to sustain university level courses when accepted. Our program improves the quality of education received by minorities, for it fosters effective pedagogy and challenging studies which address the weaknesses of our students as they endeavor to acquire knowledge and meaning in the American educational system.

Our courses seek to establish an open-minded environment promoting freedom of expression and creative undertakings. Yet, the academic studies are rigorous and students are held to the highest standards of excellence.

We insist on learning of basic facts of all fundamental scientific subject areas in formal enrichment programs. Moreover, we rely on homework and projects to further deepen the acquisition of essential knowledge and widen the scope of meaningful academic data available and mastered by the students.

Our rigorous, but comprehensive, curriculum acknowledges the fact that knowledge and understanding that students inherit from their social and cultural communities about life must be taken into account and must be built upon in constructing new and expanding meaning. These understandings set the stage upon which they currently stand and from which their educational history unfolds, as they launch themselves into the future.

In that respect, the learning experience builds on acquired knowledge within the learner’s community and constantly looks for connections with specific aspects of that community. That way we hope the academic progression of the student will remain in sync with his cultural heritage and also will not dichotomize the learner with his community.

Furthermore, knowledgeable individuals from the community at large and successful minority professionals will often be invited to share in expository manner their expertise and their experience with our students. Hopefully, our students will benefit directly from the rich experiences of their own role models and will gain the necessary incentives for their pursuit of knowledge and for their active preparation for college. But, above all we ensure the creation of an environment culturally more conducive to learning and addressing effectively academic and emotional difficulties facing minority students.

We provide learning methods, which enable students to acquire the knowledge, skills and judgment to continue to rationally and creatively learn for themselves; to develop higher order thinking abilities; to participate intelligently, critically, and responsibly in community, civic life, and in deliberations about local, national and international issues. Particularly, we urge our students to serve as tutors for lower level students within the community.

It is our hope that over time such a program will contribute to better minority's performance in standardized tests for they will be accustomed to in-depth analysis and rationally trained to identify and address the intricacies of those tests. It should insure as well greater minority’s visibility in science and engineering program.

In addition, we are in the process of developing a strategy to address some of the problems encountered by post-graduates. A first step was taken in this direction with the creation of a course in abstract algebra taught in a way to benefit high-schools teachers, professional scientists, engineers and graduate students.