Dr. Raymont Burke is a veteran education teaching Robotics and is the STEM Director for Lillie’s Foundation in Atlanta, Georgia.
Tag: STEM
Morehouse Graduate Gives Back
Robert Smith inspired the graduating Class of 2019 when he announced during the ceremony that he would pay off the graduates student loans. Smith’s gesture challenged the Black community to encourage the academic success of Black boys on all levels. One of the graduates, Min. Jyrekis Collins, interns at an historic church in East Atlanta, First Mt. Pleasant Church led…
Black Panther Inspires Black Girls to Excel!
Do not let anyone make you feel like you don’t matter. – Former First Lady, Michelle Obama Everyone is talking about girls, girls, girls! Girls, Girls, Girls, is more than just a hit song released by rapper Jay -Z in 2001. Ever since the hit song, we’ve seemed to not be able to stop talking about girls and the importance…
Hidden Figures Are Sitting in Our Classrooms. And We’re Hiding Them.
Hidden. Figures. History books overlook pivotal instances and contributors to our country’s past. Some of these moments simply lacked a scribe or a historian to serve as record keeper, while others are intentionally neglected, deemed insignificant, omitted, or rejected by those whom have the power and the resolve to do so. Many of these forgotten contributors are women or people of color, or both.…