Sanger’s SAM Academy strives as a public non-profit to serve youth in the city of Sanger and surrounding areas to engage vulnerable and disaffected young people and families in activities designed to help them acquire skills, gain work experience, and improve the status of their lives.
Since opening there have been more than 40,000 visits by 5,000 youth (many repeaters) to the science workshop drop-in program, summer camps, high school intern workshops, music studio, and art studio.
Founded in 2011, the mission of SAM Academy is to help communities build leadership and capacity for success by supporting youth to become contributing members of society through hands-on and making experiences with an integrated approach to learning science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) and the Arts.