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Friday was STEM camp at Earle Brown Elementary school in Brooklyn Center. The summer program is aimed at introducing black students to STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) coursework. The National Society of Black Engineers, which sponsors the program, has a goal of graduating 10,000 black engineers annually by 2025. The summer program, which runs through July 27, now is in its 12th year, and is being offered to third- to fifth-grade students in the Twin Cities area for the first time, a spokeswoman
Liz Flores, a photojournalist for the Star Tribune for 12-plus years, previously worked at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for 8 years.
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