Youth Data Literacy Program:
Building Pathways to Careers in
Research & STEM

Data literacy is a key strategy to ensure that students and community members (as citizen scientists) have the tools and skills to access, interpret, question, and use data to promote meaningful transformation within their neighborhoods and communities.

The TPS Data Accessibility committee and the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center recently provided workshops for data stewards and health ambassadors (about 60 total participants) who were surveyed at the start and end of the workshop series. The results validated the course of activities as having helped to build capacity, confidence, and an inclusive culture of data use. Participants expressed a higher degree of confidence in using data, and growing ability to find data and assess its quality and context. Two thirds of Data Ambassadors volunteered to participate in additional conversations around data and community engagement.

Our Youth Data Literacy program will work with young people to build that same level of confidence in working with data.

Our Goal:
To engage adolescents from schools that participated in Healthy Allegheny Teens Survey and empower their voices to define areas for health improvement and actions that support adolescent thriving.

For more information, email monk.e@pitt.edu

Why Is Data Literacy Important?

How Does This Program Drive Change?