2025 Summer STEM Camp Program: Another Year of Student and Program Growth & Success!

Our recently completed 2025 Summer STEM Camp Program celebrated the eleventh year of the three-week summer learning campaign. The summer STEM Camp was the initial program of the NSSA and engaged twenty-six, rising 7th graders over two weeks in July 2014 at the Benjamin Turner School. Each day of the program included breakfast, lunch and […]
A Message from the Executive Director: Join Us in Empowering Mt. Vernon’s Future Through STEM

Dear Parents, Sponsors, and Friends of Mt. Vernon, As the Executive Director of the Northeast STEM Starter Academy at Mt. Vernon (NSSA), I am proud to announce that we are gearing up for our 11th annual Summer STEM Camp, running from Monday, July 21st through Friday, August 8th at the Grimes School, right here in […]
2022 NSSA Science and Engineering Research Fair

Eight years since our launch, the NSSA continues our focus on delivering enhanced
NSSA’s Girls of Color Coding

MOUNT VERNON, NY – New York State Senator Jamaal T. Bailey
STEM-Literate Workforce Panel Discussion held at the 28th Annual Brotherhood Breakfast

On Friday, Nov. 2, 2018, the African American Men of Westchester in partnership
Professor Earns Two Community Awards

Gerald Ardito, Assistant Chair and Assistant Professor of STEM-D at Pace’s School of Education
Mercy College Partners With Northeast STEM Starter Academy

Mercy College has entered a memorandum of understanding
2 Mt. Vernon School District Students receive $10,000.00 Sponsorships

Mount Vernon — Congressman Eliot Engel, along with program sponsors
Mount Vernon brings STEM to youngest students

Matthew Wilbekin teaches ratios to fourth-grade students at the Northeast STEM Starter Academy (NSSA)
Golden Krust Foundation’s Honors Six At Mount Vernon Gala

MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. — The Mavis and Ephraim Hawthorne Golden Krust Foundation