Improve

  • Success in male youth of color empowerment

  • What has worked in the past

  • Perceptions of black and minority male youth

  • Our ability to understand and engage the youth

  • Culturally relevant and STEM +A (arts)-based skills programming for the youth

  • Interpretations of student progress and success

Innovate

  • New channels and platforms for intergenerational communication

  • Meet the youth where they are

  • Develop the knowledge and innovation economy necessary for success in the 21st century

  • Our capacity to provide tools not just programs

  • Empower through student-led platform development

Change

  • Public perceptions of male youth of color

  • Ideas of minority youth academic capacity

  • Youth perception of their ability in STEM + A (arts) fields

  • The culture of thought for young males of color

  • Incentives for success and create new ones

  • Acceptance of the perception that our African-American institutions are irrelevant