Fig. 1

Emergent Themes from the NE STEM 4U program. Identification of the emergent themes (based on percent coverage in parentheses), from coded focus groups and survey responses across all sites. The unifying, consistent emergent themes across franchise sites are described (All Sites), as well as uniquely across each franchise site (Site of Origin, a large, urban, metropolitan university (R2)), and both expansion sites (Urban and rural-mixed (RI), and a Small, Rural University (PUI)). Specific themes were unified across all sites