The Boys & Girls Club of Southeastern Connecticut received a $20,000 grant from Mystic Aquarium to implement a mentoring program and is now seeking teen and adult mentors who will be based at the Thames River Unit club in New London and the Claude Chester Extension club in Groton.

The Department of Justice recently awarded Mystic Aquarium’s Sea Research Foundation a $3 million federal grant to develop and implement a science, technology, engineering, and math mentoring initiative for underserved youth at 56 Boys and Girls clubs across the country.

The program will run through December and will consists of three modules that will run for 8 to 10 weeks each. For more information, contact Emily Gruner at (860) 574-9040 or egruner@bgcsect.org; or visit www.bgcsect.org or www.stemmentoringprogram.org.