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In 2022\u20132023 alone, 171 Caltech students served as Rise tutors, split about evenly between undergraduates and graduate students. More than 80 percent served on a volunteer basis. Those who have been paid through the Federal Work-Study Program often continue as volunteers after their funding ends.<\/p>\n
This high participation in Rise and other outreach programs shows that Caltech students value the opportunity to mentor others and connect with the local community, says Liz Jackman, associate director of student programs for the Caltech Y.<\/p>\n
Rise is made possible by the volunteerism of Caltech students, the commitment of PUSD students, and the financial support of the Caltech Y Tom M. Apostol Fund for Science and Math Outreach, the Roethke Family Funds, the Medtronic Foundation, the Pasadena African American Parent Council, the Harris-Bacor Family Foundation, and the Caltech Employees Federal Credit Union.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By the time they get to middle and high school, children interested in science and math often begin to doubt whether they can succeed in STEM careers, according to U.S. data. If their grades begin to falter, some students turn away from these subjects. Instead, in Pasadena, hundreds of students have turned to the Rise tutoring program. Led by the…","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steamcoders.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steamcoders.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steamcoders.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steamcoders.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steamcoders.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/steamcoders.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1651,"href":"https:\/\/steamcoders.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions\/1651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steamcoders.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steamcoders.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steamcoders.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steamcoders.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}