Scholarships, Grants & Fellowships for All STEM Students. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Awards. Amount: $500 to $10,000 (undergraduate); $1,000 to $5,000 (graduate) Variety of undergraduate scholarships and graduate awards for AIAA student members in good standing.
Omnified Resources for Innovation and Cognition (ORION) is working with STEMBees, a Ghana-based nonprofit to cultivate STEM opportunities for Ghanaian students in the capital Accra. This summer, our two nonprofits will be running a two-week LEGO robotics-based summer camp for Junior and Senior High School students at the University of Ghana, Legon. Not only will students be learning how to program and build robots, but they will also be offered kits for further learning afterward and multiple interactions with professionals in various STEM fields for networking and inspiration.My name is Jude.
I am a part of ORION and an instructor/organizer for the upcoming camp. We are raising money to pay for the remaining transportation costs to a get an instructor (Simon Mahns), and 8 LEGO robotics kits from Baltimore, MD to Accra, Ghana, as well as to supplement funds needed to operate the camp in Ghana.What we've done so far:-Simon and I have been looking for grants. We being a smaller US-based nonprofit trying to do a project in a different country has given us some trouble, but we are still on the hunt. If you or someone you know would be able to assist us, please contact us.-Simon is currently biking to Alaska. Along the way, he's been spreading awareness for this fundraising endeavor.Simon's bike blog can be found atThe camp's website can be found atFor more info (Budget, Logistics, Budgeting, etc.), view this doc:Even if you cannot donate, we would greatly appreciate if you could share this GoFundMe with someone else who can.
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From early in his Administration, President Obama has made improving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education a priority—he believes that every American student deserves access to a high-quality education in STEM for both their future and for the Nation’s future. President Barack Obama greets Emily Bergenroth, Alicia Cutter, Karissa Cheng, Addy O’Neal, and Emery Dodson, all six-year-old Girl Scouts, from Tulsa, Oklahoma as he viewed their science exhibit during the 2015 White House Science Fair celebrating student winners of a broad range of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) competitions, in the Red Room, March 23, 2015.
The girls used Lego pieces and designed a battery-powered page turner to help people who are paralyzed or have arthritis. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)The Administration has already supported research on and implementation of active learning in K-12 and college-level classrooms. The President’s 2017 Budget builds on past effort by investing $109 million at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Improving Undergraduate STEM Education to ensure that students have access to the most effective learning and research opportunities—opportunities that prepare them to pursue STEM careers across disciplines.
To continue support for pathways that bring excellent teachers into STEM classrooms, ED will invest $125 million in the Teacher and Principals Pathways program to support teacher-preparation programs and nonprofits partnering with school districts to create or expand high quality pathways into the teaching profession, particularly into high-need schools and high-need subjects such as STEM. In addition, later this year, the Administration will take steps to showcase the importance of active learning, and to highlight the growing force of educators, nonprofit organizations, foundations, and others who are working to expand use of active learning with students at all levels—from elementary school through college.Expanding Access to Rigorous STEM CoursesTo ensure that all students have access to relevant STEM coursework during their formative years, we as a Nation, must increase opportunities for every student to have access to a full suite of advanced STEM courses in high school.
For high-school students, access to core and advanced STEM coursework is an essential part of preparing to enter the workforce equipped with relevant skills for a broad range of jobs, and to successfully pursue STEM degrees and courses in college. Exposure to STEM education correlates with success in higher education, regardless of major. Yet the most recent survey from the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights’ Civil Rights Data Collection shows that 50 percent of U.S. High schools do not offer calculus and 27 percent do not offer physics. Between 10 and 25 percent of high schools lack more than one of the core courses in the typical sequence of high school math and science education, such as algebra I and II, geometry, biology, or chemistry. By some estimates, just one quarter of all K-12 schools in the United States offer computer science with programming and coding. The Nation must take action to expand the diversity of schools that offer core and advanced STEM courses.
On February 4, 2014, President Obama on the major progress made toward his ConnectED initiative, which will connect 99% of students to next-generation broadband and wireless technology within five years.The President’s 2017 Budget includes a Computer Science for All plan that builds on the momentum at the state and local level to give every P-12 student the opportunity to learn computer science. The Budget invests $4 billion in mandatory funding at ED, available over three years, to support the ability of all 50 states to expand access for all students to hands-on computer science instruction and programs of study. In addition to state-level grants, the 2017 Budget dedicates $100 million in competitive grants specifically for leading districts to execute ambitious computer science-expansion efforts for all students—with a focus on reaching traditionally underrepresented students—and to serve as models for national replication. More information on this initiative can be found in the fact sheet. Vice President Joe Biden visits with students and is taught to write a line of code, during the 'Hour of Code' event in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, in Washington, D.C., Dec. President Barack Obama presents former NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, as professional baseball player Willie Mays, right, looks on, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls).In the President’s 2017 Budget, NSF, as part of its Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES) program, through a comprehensive R&D effort, will invest $16 million in alliances to develop new ways to increase diversity in STEM.
In addition, ED will invest in a set of programs that have a strong focus on increasing access to STEM education, including $108 million in the Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) STEM and Articulation program, sustained funding for Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP), and increased funding for ED’s Federal TRIO programs.This Administration has already taken many steps to reduce barriers and expand STEM opportunities for all students, including starting the tradition of the White House Science Fair, and launching the Educate to Innovate initiative. To build upon past efforts, the Administration is working with the media and entertainment industry to of STEM jobs and the people who do them. This work will provide role models to inspire diverse young people to pursue STEM careers and offer the public a more realistic and positive image of STEM fields than is evident in current programming. In addition, the Administration is convening Federal STEM agencies to delineate policies that would enhance training of Federal employees in mitigating the effects of bias on workplace behaviors.Progress on the STEM for All goals will increase the number and diversity of students who achieve in STEM education and comprise the future STEM workforce. To turn STEM innovation to address the complex challenges confronting the world today and in the future, the Nation must engage all of the available brainpower, creativity, and talent in the STEM enterprise. We cannot afford to squander the opportunity.Learn more about the Administration’s STEM for All efforts, and get involved by making a commitment in in support of STEM for All.Jo Handelsman is Associate Director for Science at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.Megan Smith is the U.S. Chief Technology Officer.