Mission Statement
“To teach the fundamentals of research and programming to students, guiding them on their journeys of scientific research.“
We believe that scientific research and STEM education are essential skills for life in the 21st Century. In achieving our mission, Project ROPEs will:
- Introduce middle school students across the country to the opportunities in research through supporting them in conducting a project for their regional science fair with the RC² Workshops, taught by passionate volunteer science fair alumni
- Provide resources and guidance online and through communication to any student conducting scientific research
Project ROPEs has never and will never discriminate a student or a volunteer on any basis, including gender, race, sexual orientation, or any other discriminating factor.
Project ROPEs was founded in 2019, and has since then been built from the ground up by the Executive Officers, now a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. In the 2019–20 school year, Project ROPEs hosted pilot science fair workshops at Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School in Palo Alto, CA, helping students with their project for the regional Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship. During the summer of 2020, Project ROPEs offered weekly online workshops teaching basic Python programming to local students. In the 2020-21 school year, we are offering Research Crash Course classes, and extension of the JLS pilot classes, with 4 chapters across 3 states.