2017
Administrators at KIPP Sunnyside High School, a public charter school that opened in 2010, invited Kyle Kenan to start a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) program in 2013. The STEM program is the first in the 28-school KIPP Houston system. School leaders wanted students in the Sunnyside community, the oldest AfricanAmerican community in southern Houston, to be exposed to STEM. They hoped it would lead their students into careers that would lift them out of poverty.