Woods Educational Enrichment Foundation

Doing the work of our mission

Marcus E. Woods, founder of WEEF and Darius Nix, founder of Friends in the City Foundation, sat down with Marsha Lyles to discuss why it’s important for children to experience STEM, and how to go about getting kids enrolled and the need for sponsors of the Chi-STEM academy.

Episode 11: Chi STEM: Exposing children to hands-on science, technology, engineering and math There’s a lot of good things happening in the community. Chi STEM is one of them. Chi STEM is a new Academy Saturday School that’s opening their doors free to students starting March 31st. Darius Nix, founder of Chi STEM and design board member, Marcus Woods, sat down with Marsha Lyles to educat...

Special thanks to Ms Cardona and the staff of Polaris Charter Academy for supporting the mission of WEEF, to expose underrepresented students to STEM topics and careers, through interactive programming. The largest fire of passion can be created with the smallest spark of interest.

WEEF is hosting it's first fundraiser, a mother's day brunch, where proceeds will go towards our STEM Pipeline Academy. This academy will allow 12-15 motivated high school minority students to spend the summer learning STEM principals from minority STEM professionals and taking the first step to becoming leaders of the next generation of STEM professionals
I would love for you to attend and support our continued passion in providing minority youth with access and exposure to the STEM fields. Thank you in advance for your consideration! We're looking forward to a great time with good food, drinks and music, while truly making an impact.

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WEEF's Mother's Day Brunch 2017 - Benefit for STEM Pipeline Academy Please come and enjoy a morning of food, drink & music while supporting Chicago's youth. The fun starts at 10 am on May 13th, but the impact of your support will be lifelong for our stundets. There will be a 50/50 raffle, silent auction, as well as food and drink. Your donations will support WEEF's…

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We had a blast hosting a tutoring event last night at the LINK Unlimited facility, despite the cold weather. If you are interested in either, becoming a tutor or working with our tutors please email: [email protected] for information.

Collaboration between Link Unlimited and The Woods Educational Enrichment Foundation

Last night we opened our home for the inaugural Woods Educational Enrichment Foundation group study session. I would like the the board of directors, Kandyce Ashley & Sheila Crawford for their hard work and dedication. We were able to provide students with math, physics and spanish tutoring. Onward and Upward