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Intel will no longer serve as the title sponsor for the International Science and Engineering Fair, which draws participants from 70-plus countries. The Society for Science and the Public, a nonprofit that organizes the fair, is seeking a new title sponsor for the nearly 70-year-old global competition. MoreAs teachers develop new, three-dimensional formative assessments aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), a new collaborative process is producing open educational resources (OER) to help them reach every student. More
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New for 2017, SparkFun has launched a formal grant program that is awarding prize packages and sponsorships on the monthly basis to educational and non-profit organizations to support makerspaces, coding, robotics labs and STEM- and STEAM-related activities. MoreThe MET has made 375,000 images of public domain freely available under a Creative Commons Zero license. MoreDuke University will be hosting a new conference on how to use 3D printing and digital fabrication in education, covering both K-12 and postsecondary. Construct3D 2017 runs May 5-7 and is expected to move to different institutions annually. MoreChicago Tech Academy (ChiTech), a nonprofit charter high school in the University Village neighborhood of Chicago and the only entire-school, project-based learning high school in the city, has launched its second annual corporate immersion program in partnership with Chicago's technology community. In the Real World Learning Program, ChiTech gives all its senior class the opportunity to spend an entire month of their final school year to obtain real workplace experience as paid interns at local organizations in Chicago. MoreThe Florida Virtual School (FLVS), a statewide online public school, has developed two new courses to round out its career and technical education offerings. MoreA new video series features Ivy League students talking to America's best and brightest high school students to give them a realistic idea of what lies ahead. The interviews can be found on the National Leadership Academies' YouTube channel.
MoreCollabera, a New Jersey-based IT staffing and professional services company, is supporting STEM students with its 2017 Collabera STEM Scholarship. The scholarship will grant $2,500 scholarships to three individuals to assist in their efforts toward pursuing STEM careers. MoreDiscovery Education and 3M have launched the first Young Scientist Global Virtual Field Trip for kindergarten through eighth grade classrooms with exclusive access to 3M Headquarters' "World of Innovation" in St. Paul, MN. The event will be broadcast live at 1 p.m. EST/10 a.m. PST Feb. 23. More
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Upcoming K–12 Grants
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Sponsor: Acer
Award: $20,000 in Acer equipment (a classroom set of Acer Switch Alpha 12 two-in-one notebooks)
Number of Awards: 1
Application Deadline: March 31
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Sponsor: SparkFun
Award: STEM/STEAM-releated prize packages, event and team sponsorships and other types of support
Number of Awards: Varies
Application Deadline: Third Thursday of each month; awards announced on the last business day of each month
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Sponsor: United States Department of Education
Award: $12 million to $15 million over a period of three to five years
Number of Awards: 23 to 30
Application Deadline: April 11
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Sponsor: McCarthey Dressman Education Foundation
Award: $30,000 maximum ($10,000 over three years)
Number of Awards: Not specified (five awarded last year)
Application Deadline: April 15
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Sponsor: McCarthey Dressman Education Foundation
Award: $30,000 maximum ($10,000 over three years)
Number of Awards: Not specified (two awarded last year)
Application Deadline: April 15 (submissions open Jan. 15)
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Sponsor: Siemens Foundation
Award: $10,000
Number of Awards: 1
Application Deadline: April 28, 5 p.m. ET
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Sponsor: Crayola and the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP)
Award: $2,500 plus $1,000 in Crayola gear
Number of Awards: Up to 20 major prizes, plus one Crayola Classpack for every applicant submitting by the early bird deadline
Application Deadline: June 23 (June 5 for early bird prize)
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Sponsor: Toshiba America Foundation
Award: Two categories: Up to $5,000 and more than $5,000
Number of Awards: Not specified
Application Deadline: Up to $5,000 awarded on a rolling basis; Aug. 1 deadline for applications for more than $5,000
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Deadline: Ongoing
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Deadline: Ongoing
Award: No more than 10 percent of an organization's annual operating expenses or 25 percent of the total budget for the project being funded; awards have ranged from the hundreds to the millions of dollars.
Number of Awards: Varies
Qualification: Project should "directly serve or impact children living in urban poverty, particularly in the areas of education, family economic stability (including microfinance) and childhood health."
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Deadline: Ongoing (approx. 10 awards per month)
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Deadline: Ongoing (grants awarded on a rolling basis)
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Upcoming Events
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March 2–4
New Orleans, LA
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March 6–9
Austin, TX
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March 12–16, 2017
San Diego, CA
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March 15–18
Palm Springs, CA
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March 30–April 2
Los Angeles
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March 31–April 1
Providence, RI
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April 3–6
Chicago
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April 24-25
Boston, MA
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May 5–7
Duke University (Durham, NC)
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