Evaluation of the MINDDRIVE Program

Focus Areas: Essential Skills/SEL, Career Pathways, STEM Education

Year: 2021-2024

This evaluation examined the impact of a unique experiential learning program on students’ essential skill development and assessed key program strengths and areas of growth opportunity.

MINDDRIVE is an experiential learning program that serves students from the Kansas City metropolitan area. MINDDRIVE teaches problem-solving, critical thinking, and collaboration through math, science, technology, innovation, and communication, giving students deep-level experience with real-world applications.

This annual evaluation focused on MINDDRIVE’s High School Partnership Program and After School Programs, through which students learn valuable technical and professional skills as they work in teams on innovative engineering design projects. The evaluation examines key skills students gain from MINDDRIVE programs and how implementation challenges and opportunities were encountered and addressed. MINDDRIVE has used the findings to highlight the key outcomes of the program and guide program improvements.