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The school year is off to a great start
​and we'd love your help! Come to class as a Volunteer - Be part of our
​                           Adopt-A-School program: 
We are scientists, engineers, and other STEM professionals
who volunteer to help students in
​STEM education in Santa Fe schools
The Santa Fe Alliance for Science supports Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) education and enrichment, with a current focus on K-12 school students.
Santa Fe is fortunate to have a large population of scientists and engineers for a community of its size. Until the founding of the Santa Fe Alliance for Science in 2005 this resource was not utilized by Santa Fe schools. Santa Fe Alliance for Science began finding, recruiting, and organizing scientists to volunteer in schools.
​The need was great, schools were welcoming, and some 100 professionals volunteer.  We provide STEM enrichment activities in schools, interact one-on-one with hundreds of students at school STEM fairs, support STEM workshops for teachers, and partner with community organizations to offer interactive STEM workshops for middle and high school students.

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News & Events

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Teaching Science through Literacy 
Come Join! Growing Language Through Science: Strategies That Work Across the Curriculum Book Study
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SFAFS Hosts first Adopt-A-School STEM night at Nina Otero Community School.  Supported by the Santa Fe Star Gazers, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in conjunction with NASA's International 

Special:  "Did You Know".  Judy Reinhartz's STEM article on how the SFAFS is more than just, "Those STEM Fair Judges"!  
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                                  PREVIOUSLY
"Pedaling Power to Volunteerism" Why Volunteering is so important in the schools - SFPS District Volunteer newsletter. 
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 OurAlliance activities noted in:  Tumbleweeds​.

Read the educational article from Board Member Judy Reinhartz, PhD .
​ “STEM: Inspiring the Scientist in Every Student” in:  Tumbleweeds.
GRANT NEWS:
Las Campanas Community Fund for continued "Hands On" work supporting STEM learning in our schools  2025-2026

SF Community Foundation for an Economic diversity grant to support equity in  student needs for science fair project  supplies 2024

Santa Fe Alliance for Science Receives Support for Adopt-a-School Program at Nina Otero Community School from AstraZeneca.

 2025/2026  Annual Report coming soon!
​VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT
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​The Spotlight is on Andy Krumpe

 
We welcomed Andy to the Adopt-A-School (AAS) Eighth Grade Mentoring Team in the fall of 2025.  His role was to support individual and small groups of students weekly from October to end of January guiding them to identify science fair project topics and through the steps of the investigative process with the goal of a final product to be judged during the science fair at Nina Otero Community School in February 2026.
 
In addition, Andy spends his mornings helping out in the sixth-grade science class with Ms. Montoya. He provides support as students study several topics including heat and energy as well as those in earth science.  He participated in activities, one making sedimentary rocks with crushed Jolly Rancher candies and applying pressure using stacked books over a weekend. When the topics turn to biology, he looks forward to working with the sixth graders on making models of cells. He also was one of the chaperons on a field trip to Meow Wolf. Other field trips are planned, and he is eager to accompany them. Ms. Chrissy Romero welcomes having him to  tutor small groups of students in math.  
 
The AAS  program is grateful for having him as a member of the Adopt-A-School Program.

Volunteer with Us

Join a community of approximately 100 other STEM professionals. We need STEM fair judges, classroom presenters, and more! Judges are busy from mid-November through early February. Volunteers are needed throughout the year.

Help Us Support STEM

Our volunteers work free. But your funding provides STEM materials for schools and recognition for teachers and students for their successes.
Our Major Sponsors

WE ALSO THANK THE FOLLOWING FOR THEIR SUPPORT

Avalon Trust
Buckman Family Fund
Celia Lipton Farris & Victor W. Farris Foundation
Richard Hertz & Doris Meyer
Susan & Conrad De Jong Fund
Santa Fe Community Foundation
Robert Eisenstein
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