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Education center teaches skills from computer coding to robotics to chess

Updated: 6:17 AM CDT Aug 15, 2022

You might have seen Niesha Butler scoring points as a professional basketball player. But now shes scoring points for education, bringing a bit of Silicon Valley to Brooklyn. Butler opened the S.T.E.A.M. Champs education center in July, CBS News reports. That's STEM with an extra "a" for arts. The New York location teaches skills from computer coding to robotics to chess. We are a science, technology, engineering, arts and math center, says Butler. We wanted to include art. The kids are on the computer a lot and they don't have a lot of unplugged activities. The education center is another pivot in Butlers already impressive career that began on the basketball court, playing at Georgia Tech and then for the WNBA's New York Liberty. But the STEM seed was planted when she was 12 and took her first computer science class, CBS News reports.I really look back to that time because that set the foundation that gave me the confidence that gave me the skill. It was a yearlong class and I realized I was the only female in that class. And, of course, the only person of color in that class. A poll released by Pew Research Center last year found Black people account for just 9 percent of the STEM workforce, a statistic Butler wants to change. 7-year old Theodore Vann is one of her students, though a STEM job is just one of his career goals. I want to be a basketball player, soccer player, tennis player. And I want to be a scientist, a pizza chef, and I want to go up to space, Vann says. Butler believes S.T.E.A.M. Champs is the country's first Afro-Latina -owned educational center specializing in coding and robotics and says she never imaged this would be her life after basketball. No, I didnt, she says. I'm actually having a purpose, to make a difference in these kids lives. A difference that could open young minds to new possibilities and build a pathway to success.

You might have seen Niesha Butler scoring points as a professional basketball player. But now shes scoring points for education, bringing a bit of Silicon Valley to Brooklyn.

Butler opened the S.T.E.A.M. Champs education center in July, CBS News reports. That's STEM with an extra "a" for arts. The New York location teaches skills from computer coding to robotics to chess. We are a science, technology, engineering, arts and math center, says Butler. We wanted to include art. The kids are on the computer a lot and they don't have a lot of unplugged activities.

The education center is another pivot in Butlers already impressive career that began on the basketball court, playing at Georgia Tech and then for the WNBA's New York Liberty. But the STEM seed was planted when she was 12 and took her first computer science class, CBS News reports.

I really look back to that time because that set the foundation that gave me the confidence that gave me the skill. It was a yearlong class and I realized I was the only female in that class. And, of course, the only person of color in that class.

A poll released by Pew Research Center last year found Black people account for just 9 percent of the STEM workforce, a statistic Butler wants to change. 7-year old Theodore Vann is one of her students, though a STEM job is just one of his career goals.

I want to be a basketball player, soccer player, tennis player. And I want to be a scientist, a pizza chef, and I want to go up to space, Vann says.

Butler believes S.T.E.A.M. Champs is the country's first Afro-Latina -owned educational center specializing in coding and robotics and says she never imaged this would be her life after basketball. No, I didnt, she says. I'm actually having a purpose, to make a difference in these kids lives. A difference that could open young minds to new possibilities and build a pathway to success.

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