Tuba City Students Collaborate to Shape Innovative New NAU STEM Initiative

They say success is nothing without someone to share it with. That’s certainly true in Tuba City, an 8,600-person town in the Navajo Nation. “Members of the Navajo Nation love celebrating,” said Anne Hamlin, a research associate at NAU’s Center for STEM Teaching and Learning (CSTL). “They turn out to basketball games, parades, flea markets and fairs in droves. I once tabled at the Navajo Nation Fair and interacted with 3,000 people.” That’s why, armed with $50,000 in National Science Foundation