Innovating without market-based incentives since 2011. https://bigbrainedsuperheroes.org/ On a mission to tap into the hidden strengths that all young people have through Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics (STEAM), The Big-Brained Superheroes Club (The BBSC) at Yesler Community Center in Seattle is, at its core, about community coming together to create. We're exercising our real-life superpowers (such as our Leadership, Teamwork, and Sense of Adventure) to build a kinder, nerdier, more imaginative world.Annually, The Big-Brained Superheroes Club engages over 100 East African/Latino/Asian immigrant and refugee youth (ages two and up) living in the extremely low-income Seattle neighborhood of Yesler Terrace in drop-in afterschool creative discovery and technical skill-building. Meeting 200 times a year, The BBSC offers Big Brains over 500 STE(A)M project hours, plus adventurous learning field trips. With the skills they gain through the club, Big Brains travel to events around Seattle teaching fundamental STE(A)M concepts, such as electric circuits, binary math, and digital logic.Everything we do in The BBSC is centered on the process of individual and community development. We can talk all day long about shiny technologies and 21st century skills, etc, but the truth is that, in order to make meaningful progress on any of that, we need Brains open to all opportunities around them and actively prepared to engage with whatever challenges they meet in their lives. From our perspective, that requires Big Brains to feel confident enough within themselves to truly value the contributions of others. Because the process of building a kinder, nerdier, more imaginative world is an infinitely iterative one, we need all Big-Brained Superheroes to be consistently actively involved in making it happen.