Cal NERDS

We are non-traditional undergraduate and graduate students in Science, Technology, and Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. We have a special emphasis in working with students in physical sciences, technology, and engineering fields. Our community is made up of diverse NERDS including LGBTQ, low-income, first-generation, underrepresented, student parents, transfer, re-entry, disabled, foster, undocumented, and women. Our staff, coaches, faculty mentors, and advisory board members work hard to provide resources, insight, and opportunities to our Cal NERDS family. Through our programs, students have the option to weave their academic and professional development together through our high-impact learning practices. We provide hands-on experiences such as field trips, coding and data science training, high-level industry mentors, faculty mentored research, high tech company tours, travel to research conferences, shopping excursions where students learn how to put together a professional wardrobe, graduate school planning and visits, LinkedIn coaching, and much more. Our current program offerings are listed below.