Partnerships in Achieving Careers in Technology & Science
Building Future Leaders
The PACTS program combines science enrichment, career development, mentoring, and leadership opportunities for middle and high school students in the city of Philadelphia. Students experience hands-on science workshops, environmental research, science themed field trips. The PACTS Alumni Association’s aim is to secure the existence and future of the PACTS program at The Franklin Institute by mentoring students, fostering volunteerism, contributing financially to its programs and assisting students in post-secondary educational endeavors.
PACTS Programming and Scholarsip
Registration fees for the PACTS Black History Challenge will help fund the scholarship fund for 2019 graduates and other PACTS programs and initiatives throughout the school year.
The Gilbert A. West Jr.
PACTS Alumni Scholarship Fund
PACTS awarded $15,000 in scholarships to the 2018 graduating class. Help us exceed that number this year and send the future of STEM to college!
PACTS Robotics Workshops
PACTS middle school and high school students put their engineering minds to work designing, building and operating robots during this weekend workshop.
Career Exposure Trips
PACTS Alumni and friends of the program open up their workplace and introduce students to a day in the life of different career paths.
PACTS Science in the City Workshops
Students explore cities through the aspects of modern architecture to determine how these structures affect them and their neighborhood
HBCU College Tour
Planting the seeds early, PACTS funded an overnight college tour to 12 universities in the area where students could engage and ask questions to students on campus.
ACT Prep
PACTS works with rising sophomores and juniors to prepare for the ACTS and provides assistance with completing college applications.