- Program Education
- Program Area Advancing Afterschool
- Grant Amount $100,000
- Grant Period January 1, 2016–December 31, 2016
- Location Seattle, WA, United States
- Geographic Focus United States
About this grant
This grant to the Pacific Science Center will support the Robert Noyce Fellowship in Informal STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) Learning. The fellowship is a public-private partnership initiative geared toward advancing high quality informal science education, including in afterschool and summer learning programs. This initiative will include: 1) strengthening collaboration between the U.S. Department of Education and other federal agencies in the area of informal STEM learning; 2) working to advance STEM learning in the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program; 3) building on the President’s Educate to Innovate campaign by building collaborations with the corporate, nonprofit, and philanthropic communities; and 4) working with leading researchers to identify priorities in informal STEM learning, including identifying new tools, strategies, and programs that improve STEM learning opportunities.