Ventaja Educational Services
Global Education Outreach.
STEM education.
ESL programs.
Teacher training.
Ventaja provides:
Summer and perennial programs for K-12 students and their families to increase STEM education and opportunities in underserved, underrepresented and impoverished communities. We focus on education as a gateway to poverty alleviation and community success.
Needed for Panama 2024:
For our next camp, we need technology such as tablets and calculators. All donations are welcome! We would also appreciate monetary donations towards this purchase.
Thank you for your help!
Summer 2023 Recap
Some highlights from this year includes:
A Focus on Health, Bacteria and Viruses.
1 Day in Colon City, Panama.
Field Trip to Fort Lorenzo.
Presentation from Dr. Johnathan Miller of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
We implemented a Ventaja camp on the Georgia Southern Campus in June 2021! With a small group of students we brought many first generation students to the campus for a weeklong STEM program. In the end we received a National Award from Insight Into Diversity Magazine for 2021!
Hear from our past students
Our biggest impact is with our students and the value that we can add to students’ lives and their families. Our first summer camp took place in Panamá City, Panama in 2017. The students created this video as a “thank you” to the teacher volunteers.
(translation under the video)
Press
Check out our feature in the Georgia Southern University Newsroom.
Our founder, Dr. Beverly A. King Miller is an Assistant Professor at Georgia Southern University. The university featured Ventaja as an example of faculty engagement in global classrooms. The article highlights Dr. King Miller’s work in Panamá and the STEM camp for K-12 learners.
Global engagement.
2021 Helping with Food Insecurities in Panamá:
Ventaja funds food bags for our students and families in Panamá.
Press
Our work has also included disaster relief in Latin American communities.
KRQE News Albuquerque covered our efforts to collect supplies for Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria.
Press.
KOAT Action News
“Community member ‘lighting up’ Puerto Rico”. Ventaja collected flash lights in response to Hurricane Maria to support families that lost electricity due to the natural disaster.
Our response to the current civil rights unrest.
Anti-Racism Accountability
The mission of Ventaja Educational Services is to promote access and education to underserved communities throughout the world. In doing so, we unequivocally stand against injustice in all form—racial, economic, and educational. The recent civil unrest in the United States, and abroad, has shown us that the threat to educational equality still looms heavily, and that we must work to promote access and inclusion for all members of our society. Our team, at Ventaja Educational Services, continues to provide quality educational services for all in need, regardless or race, color, gender, creed, sexual orientation, or ability.