Fifty-five middle schoolers. Three hundred-fifty elementary school kids. Thirteen public school teachers. Three STEM co-teachers and five after-school instructors. Dozens of TAF volunteers. Add [...]
Project based learning is not just a methodology or set of practices, it is a means for liberating many learners. A student in my class, I will call him “Buddy”, […]
Let’s hear it for the STEM Advisory Team at TAF Academy. This dedicated team meets four times during the school year to provide teachers with expertise and connections to resources […]
TAF Academy students are gearing up for college, and part of that means following the Roadmap to College motto – “Done by Dec 1.” All TAF Academy seniors must click […]
Last week, our high school students ventured to downtown Seattle for the NACAC College Fair. Our students were among over 1,000 participants visiting the over 300 colleges and universities [...]
We’re thrilled to announce that the Safeco Insurance Foundation has just committed $800,000 to TAF to help build the Bethaday Community Learning Space. This, combined with an earlier gift, [...]
Want to help TAF prepare students for engineering and programming excellence? Need to stretch your legs for an hour or so? Love Legos? Or none of the above? Please come […]
After June 9th’s TechStart Expo (see more Expo pictures here!), the TechStart team faced a daunting task: taking apart all 70 competing and non-competing robots and getting our 107 Lego [...]
Last Saturday, more than 150 TechStart students, nine teachers, and about 200 family members, TAF staff, program partners and supporters gathered at the Brockey Center at South Seattle Community [...]
Dr. Quintard Taylor, professor at UW, reached out to TAF to request some student help on updating and maintaining his side project, an online database for all things African American, [...]
