LKW STEM Foundation

LKW STEM FOUNDATION is a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Organization (EIN# 87-1549968) that was created to help address the significant underrepresentation of students pursuing college degrees in Science, Math, Engineering, and Technology (STEM). Each year, our program exposes children to STEM content, experiments, and activities. The majority of our students come from a diverse representation of students throughout San Diego County. The specialized programs run throughout the year (Winter Break, Spring Break, Summer Break, and Every 1st and 3rd STEM Saturday), providing students the opportunity to participate in STEM enrichment summer camps, hands-on programming, and a competitive robotics team.

Dr. Lavar J. Watkins and Mrs. Kristina H. Watkins created LKW STEM FOUNDATION, the 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Organization (EIN# 87-1549968) to create, develop, and deliver stimulating “STEM” educational programs, cultivating “STEM” experiences and invigorating “STEM” activities, workshops, and camps for diverse, multicultural, historically underrepresented and disadvantaged populations. Through “STEM” concepts, students will discover and ignite a passion to pursue any, and all things “STEM” in an environment where “STEM” exploration, innovation, and critical-thinking is implemented through interactive engagement, project-based learning, and real-world applications that are designed to foster and equip a growth mindset in “STEM EDUCATION” within the context of a global perspective. LKW STEM FOUNDATION exists to provide opportunities through “STEM Education” that will inspire “Future STEMologists” at a critical juncture along their K-16 STEM educational and career pathway development to “sySTEMically” impact our world as the next generation of innovative thinkers, creators, and developers! Their motto is: Let’s Change The WORLD… 1 STEMtastical Experience At A Time!