STARBASE 2.0 was an after-school STEM program focusing on team building, goal setting and STEM projects serving 6th-8th graders. Clubs met four hours per month during the school year from October 2017 through March 2018. STEM projects included a variety of NASA-related STEM topics such as aviation and flight, robotics, rockets, simple machines, radio-controlled airplanes, drones, CAD projects, Rube Goldberg designs, engineering design process activities, and coding. Projects were chosen with school community input. The project served 145 students at nine after-school programs across the state.

Sixty-two adult STEM mentors were selected from professionals in STEM careers representing schools, local industries, and the military. The mentor ratio was one mentor to every four students in each of the nine 2.0 programs and each mentor worked with their team of students throughout the year. STARBASE Oklahoma provided staff to coordinate program activities and ensure NASA STEM-related materials, resources and lessons were prepared and available. The goal of this informal education project was to contribute to the nationâs science enterprise as part of a statewide consortium. The objective of this project for 6th-8th graders in an after-school setting was to provide instructional materials and technologies related to NASA research and scientific activities that met the needs and requests from within the school community.