To award mini-grants designed to encourage, facilitate, and recognize innovative instructional programs in schools in southwestern Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia
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To improve cross-generational STEAM access, engagement, and identity for rural families in West Virginia through the facilitation of co-designed, sociocultural STEAM-based experiences
For continued expansion of the Portals program, a computer modeling curriculum program, across West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania
To develop learning resources and an intensive multi-day professional development program to accompany a traveling exhibit designed to assist West Virginia organizations in creating authentic and culturally relevant, hands-on learning experiences (/2 yrs)
For continued expansion of the Teen Screen program in southwestern Pennsylvania and West Virginia, holding both virtual and in-person events for elementary, middle, and high school students
For the expansion of Startable, a community- and school-based program that teaches the building blocks of entrepreneurship to secondary students, into Fayette, Greene, and Washington Counties
To provide real-world application of core skills through the development of data fluency and artificial intelligence literacy for teachers and students
To support the growth of a playful learning ecosystem through transformational innovations, including capstone projects and new educational technologies
To strengthen West Virginia’s manufacturing career pipeline by advancing manufacturing education and engaging industry professionals in high-level programming
To create inclusive STEM opportunities through VEX Robotics, empowering educators with training needed to foster a sense of collaboration, innovation, and belonging among students