STEM Research Grants

STEM Research Grants provide support to middle and high school teachers engaging their students in authentic scientific research. Since 2017, $775,000 has been awarded to 367 teachers. Priority consideration is given to schools that support students from low-income communities and demographics underrepresented in STEM fields.

Teachers can apply for up to $5,000 to purchase specialized equipment or $1,000 in preselected equipment to support many students in STEM research.

For the purposes of this grant, a research project is defined as an independent investigation by a student involving experimentation, engineering design, or invention. The grant is not intended to support whole class sets of materials for traditional classroom instruction. Independent research projects are frequently entered into science fairs and other competitions.

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SRG recipient Alfred Santos and his students standing behind a table showing various boxes of lab equipment.

2023 - 2024 STEM Research Grant Recipients

The 京东影业影视传媒 provided STEM research equipment kits and funding to 41 middle and聽high school educators to help their students conduct research outside the classroom.聽 The teachers come from 24 states, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa.

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Be notified when the application opens in 2025.

Recipients

“The impact of this opportunity is truly invaluable. Many of this year鈥檚 participants have never spent this much time in the outdoors and certainly have not conducted research in the field. The hope is that this experience will encourage these students to pursue science in their remaining years of high school as well as potentially college and careers!”

Jeremy Jonas, Tucson High Magnet School, Tucson, AZ

“Students interested in microbiology will have the opportunity to learn how to stain and plate bacteria. Many students in the past have shown interest, but we never had equipment to support their research. Now we do!”

Carrie Cox, Chamberlain High School, Chamberlain, SD