Math, Science, and Technology

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Math, Science, and Technology Teacher Awards

AAAS: Leadership in Science Education Prize for High School Teachers

The American Association for the Advancement of Science Leadership in Science Education Prize for High School Teachers recognizes high school science teachers for the development and implementation of innovative methods for teaching, encouraging the next generation of scientists. Science teachers must be nominated by an administrator within their school, their district, or their state who is in a position to know the nominee’s work and to assess the extent of its impact on others. Maximum award: $1,000. Eligibility: teachers currently employed as science instructors in a public or private school for grades 9-12 in the United States or its territories.

AAPT: Frederick and Florence Bauder Endowment for the Support of Physics Teaching

The American Association of Physics Teachers Frederick and Florence Bauder Endowment for the Support of Physics Teaching was established to support special activities in the area of physics teaching. Activities can include but are not limited to the development and distribution of innovative apparatuses for physics teaching; traveling exhibits of apparatuses; and local workshops. Maximum award: $500. Eligibility: AAPT members.

AAPT: Barbara Lotze Scholarships for Future Teachers

The American Association of Physics Teachers Barbara Lotze Scholarships offer funds for future high school physics teachers. Maximum award: $2,000. Eligibility: U.S. citizens attending U.S. schools as undergraduates enrolled, or planning to enroll, in physics teacher preparation curricula, and U.S. high school seniors entering such programs.

AAPT: High School Physics Teachers Grants

American Association of Physics Teachers High School Physics Teachers Grants enables high school physics teachers to compete for small grants that will support innovative physics programs or activities that seek to increase student enrollment or to enhance student achievement in physics. Maximum award: $500. Eligibility: High School Physics Teachers who are AAPT members.

ACTE National Awards Program

The Association for Career and Technical Education awards program seeks to promote excellence in career and technical education by recognizing individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to the field, programs that exemplify the highest standards and organizations that have conducted activities to promote and expand career and technical education programs.

Agmen Foundation Science Education and Community Life Improvement Grants

“The Amgen Foundation seeks to advance excellence in science education to inspire the next generation of innovators, and invest in strengthening communities where Amgen staff members live and work. The Amgen Foundation carefully considers each grant application it receives, seeking out diverse organizations whose philosophies, objectives and approaches align with the Foundation goals and mission. The Foundation awards grants to local, regional, and international nonprofit organizations that are replicable, scalable and designed to have a lasting and meaningful effect in our communities. Grants should reflect Amgen’s dedication to impacting lives in inspiring and innovative ways.

Science Education – The Foundation is committed to raising the value of science literacy on a national and local level. The areas given priority consideration within science education are:

1) Teacher quality and professional development in math and science: Comprehensive programs that enhance the quality of math and science teachers entering the classroom, and support teachers with meaningful professional-development opportunities that have a positive impact on student achievement

2) Pivotal hands-on science experience: Support programs that provide students and teachers with opportunities for hands-on, inquiry-based learning experiences that significantly impact students’ excitement about science and scientific careers.Eligibility: “The Amgen Foundation, Inc. will consider grant requests from nonprofit organizations that are recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as tax exempt public charities under sections 501(c)(3) and 509(a)(1), (2), (3) of the Internal Revenue Code, located in the United States and Puerto Rico. In addition, the Amgen Foundation will consider requests for funding from governmental organizations located in the United States where the purpose of the grant is to support a charitable, educational, scientific or literary purpose. Thus, eligible grantees may include public elementary and secondary schools, as well as public colleges and universities, public libraries and public hospitals.”

Amount: $10,000+.

Air Force Junior ROTC Grants

AFA offer grants of $250 to JROTC units to advance aerospace education in the classroom. These grants enhance students’ understanding of the critical role aerospace plays in today and tomorrow’s society. AFA is proud to partner with JROTC to operate aerospace education programs in 30 classrooms to reach hundreds of cadets annually.

Albert Easton White Distinguished Teacher Award

•  Recognizes long (not less than 20 years) and devoted service in teaching materials science and engineering.
• The ability to inspire and impart enthusiasm to students, and significant materials accomplishments, are key considerations.
• Requires five years of current, continuous ASM membership.
• Requires three statements from close associates.

ASM Materials Education Foundation: Grants for Teachers

The ASM Materials Education Foundation is sponsoring grants to enhance awareness of materials science and the role of materials scientists in society through curricula. ASM International has local chapters across North America, with members willing to work closely with local teachers to develop and implement these lessons; cooperative proposals among several teachers are welcome. Maximum award: $500. Eligibility: teachers K-12.

ASIS&t/ Thomson Reuters: Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award

The Thomson Reuters Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award recognizes the unique teaching contribution of an individual as a teacher of information science. Maximum award: $1,000; $500 towards travel or other expenses to the grant recipient, contingent upon the recipient’s attending the ASIS&t annual meeting. Eligibility: individuals directly engaged in teaching some aspect of information science on a continuing basis, in an academic or a non-academic setting; nominees need not be associated with an educational institution; however, teaching information science must represent a significant work responsibility, although it need not occur within the traditional classroom.

Air Force Association Teacher of the Year Award

In addition to offering awards and scholarships to students, the AFA gives Teacher of the Year awards on the national, state, and chapter level.

AFCEA Educational Foundation Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Teacher Scholarships

To students actively pursuing a graduate degree or credential/licensure for the purpose of teaching STEM (science, technology, engineering or math) subjects at a U.S. school in grades K-12.

Amazon Future Engineers

Amazon Future Engineer is a comprehensive childhood-to- career program to inspire, educate, and train children and young adults from underserved and low- income communities to pursue careers in computer science. Amazon aims to inspire more than 10 million kids each year to explore computer science, fund CS courses for over 100,000 underprivileged young people in 2,000 low-income high schools across the U.S., and award 100 students from underserved communities pursuing degrees in computer science with four-year $10,000 annual scholarships, as well as internships at Amazon to gain work experience.

Amgen Award for Science Teaching

Amgen encourages excellence in science education by recognizing and honoring extraordinary K-12 science teachers with the Amgen Award for Science Teaching Excellence. Since the program’s 1992 inception, Amgen has awarded over $2.5 million to educators who make outstanding contributions to science teaching and a measurable impact on students’ lives. The 34 selected winners will receive an unrestricted cash award of $5,000, with the recipient’s school receiving an additional $5,000 in the form of a restricted grant to be used for the expansion or enhancement of science programs, science resources, or professional development of science teachers.

AMS-Simons Travel Grants

 The Simons Foundation and the American Mathematical Society present the AMS-Simons Travel Grants to early career mathematicians. Funding is provided over a period of two years to support research-related travel. Applicants must be working in areas of mathematics supported by the Division of Mathematical Sciences of the National Science Foundation (e.g., algebra, number theory, analysis, applied mathematics, combinatorics, computational mathematics, foundations, geometric analysis, mathematical biology, probability, statistics, and topology) and have a mentor with whom to interact during the grant period. Grant cycle opens February 1.

Cable’s Leaders in Learning Awards

The Cable’s Leaders in Learning Awards is Cable in the Classroom’s annual awards program to recognize administrators, educators, community leaders and policymakers who demonstrate vision, innovation, action and transformation in education. The objective of the awards is to promote and encourage innovative learning practices by honoring individuals who have transformed an aspect of education on a large or small scale. Awards are given in five different categories, including “Pushing the Envelope with Cable Technology and Programming” and “Media Literacy”. Winners receive transportation to and lodging in Washington, D. C. for a celebration and a grant of $3,000.

James Bryant Conant Award in High School Chemistry Teaching

The purpose of this award is to recognize, encourage, and stimulate outstanding teachers of high school chemistry in the United States, its possessions or territories, at the national level. The nominee must be actively engaged in the teaching of chemistry in a high school (grades 9 through 12). The nomination should clearly demonstrate as many of the following attributes of the nominee as possible: Quality of teaching (unusually effective methods of presentation should be emphasized).Ability to challenge and inspire students. Extracurricular work in chemistry, including science fairs, science clubs, and activities that stimulate the interest of young people in chemistry and related sciences. Willingness to keep up-to-date in the field, as evidenced by pursuit of a higher degree in chemistry, enrollment in refresher courses and summer institutions, regular attendance at scientific meetings, and other means of self-improvement.

Robert H. Carleton Award

This is the most prestigious award an NSTA member can receive. The Robert H. Carleton Award recognizes one individual who has made outstanding contributions to, and provided leadership in, science education at the national level and to NSTA in particular. It is NSTA’s highest honor.

Corteva Agriscience Excellence in Agricultural Science Education Award

A partnership with Corteva and the National Science Teaching Association, this award recognizes excellence and innovation in the field of agricultural science education. This award is open to any K-12 science teacher who incorporates innovative agricultural science activities into their existing science curriculum.

Discovery Education

ULTIMATE COOL SCHOOL SCIENCE DAY SWEEPSTAKES

Enter daily for a chance to win an Ultimate Cool School Science Day Assembly – a spellbinding assembly for your school that is not only fun and interactive, but also underscores the importance of science literacy. Students will be amazed as they participate in interactive demonstrations and conduct mind-blowing experiments with a leading science guru and personality. Teachers will discover “cool” new hands-on activities and stimulating resources that will excite students in a special professional development workshop.Eligibility: The Ultimate Cool School Science Day” Sweepstakes (“Sweepstakes”) is offered only in the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia (“U.S.”) and is open only to legal U.S. residents who are 18 years of age and older and who are employed, during the Term of the Sweepstakes and when prize is awarded, as teachers at an accredited public, private or parochial elementary school in the United States containing any class with students from Kindergarten through Grade 6, that has a 501(c)(3) or 509(a)(1) tax-exempt designation.Number of Prizes: 1 (Science Assembly for School)

DNA Day Essay Contest

The DNA Day Essay Contest, sponsored by the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), celebrates DNA Day on April 25 each year. This contest is open to students in grades 9-12 worldwide and asks students to examine, question, and reflect on important concepts in genetics. Essays are expected to be well-reasoned arguments that indicate a deep understanding of scientific concepts related to the essay question. They are evaluated by ASHG members through three rounds of scoring.

DuPont Pioneer Excellence in Agricultural Science Education Award

A partnership with DuPont Pioneer and the National Science Teachers Association, this award is to recognize excellence and innovation in the field of agricultural science education. Two awards will be awarded annually. The awardee will receive a $2,500 grant for their classroom/program, up to $1,000 paid travel expenses to attend the NSTA national conference on science education, mentoring with a DuPont Pioneer scientist, classroom resources from DuPont Pioneer, and access to a DuPont Pioneer product plant or research facility. The awardees will be presented the award at the Teacher Awards Banquet at the National Conference.

Ecology/ Environmental Science Teaching Award

Sponsored by Vernier Software & Technology, this Award will be given to a secondary school teacher who has successfully developed and demonstrated an innovative approach in the teaching of ecology/ environmental science and has carrier their commitment to the environment into the community.

Family and Consumer Sciences Teacher of the Year Award

The TOY award identifies and recognizes exemplary family and consumer sciences teachers who exhibit a deep commitment to the profession and association. These teachers have outstanding educational programs, methods, techniques and activities that raise awareness of family and consumer sciences at the elementary and secondary levels.

GardenConnect Grant

Green Our Planet’s GardenConnect Program helps schools across the U.S. create a comprehensive school garden program that will connect students to nature and serve as an outdoor laboratory for all kinds of in-depth studies. By assigning an experienced Green Our Planet coordinator to your school for monthly meetings, we can share nearly a decade of experience in how to build and maintain a garden, utilize garden-based curricula, and create student-run farmers markets. This grant requires a one-year commitment working with the Green Our Planet team to implement your program. Monthly surveys and quarterly reports are required. A letter committing support for your garden project, signed by the principal of the applying school where the garden will live, and presented on school/organization letterhead, is needed to apply.

Honeywell: Educators at Space Academy

The Honeywell Educators at Space Academy Program funds five-day scholarships for middle school math and science teachers at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Al. Recipients have 40 hours of intensive classroom, laboratory, and training time, focusing on space science and space exploration, including participation in astronaut-style training and simulations and activities designed to promote life-long learning in a classroom setting. Maximum award: travel, accommodations, materials and five-day tuition. Eligibility: middle school (grades 6-8) science and math teachers.

Hydroponics STEM Program Grant

Green Our Planet’s hydroponic gardens provide a natural laboratory for students to learn STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), conservation, nutrition, financial literacy, and more in a hands-on, experiential way. Hydroponics systems for 20 classrooms are provided, including a 4’x3’x4′ commercial unit that can grow more than 200 plants at a time. Green Our Planet also supplies each school with all necessary materials: a seed germinator, nutrient fertilizers, pH and total dissolved solids (TDS) measurement tools and more. A signed Letter of Support from Administration on school/institute letterhead is needed to apply. This grant opportunity is open to public, private, home and charter schools, libraries, and community centers in the United States.

Knowles Science Teaching Foundation Fellowships

In the United States, approximately half of all secondary teachers leave the teaching profession within five years. Research on issues of recruitment, retention and induction of secondary science and mathematics teachers indicates that among key challenges facing beginning teachers are a sense of professional isolation and a lack of support and mentoring. The KSTF Teaching Fellowship program was explicitly designed to meet these needs of beginning high school science and mathematics teachers as they earn a teaching credential and through the early years of their career.KSTF Teaching Fellows are young men and women who have received a bachelor’s or advanced degree in science, engineering or mathematics and are committed to teaching high school science and/or mathematics in U.S. schools. The fellowship supports them professionally and financially for up to five years through a teacher preparation program to eligibility for tenure.

Lemelson-MIT: InvenTeams

Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams foster inventiveness in high school students. InvenTeams composed of high school students, teachers and mentors are asked to collaboratively identify a problem that they want to solve, research the problem, and then develop a prototype invention as an in-class or extracurricular project. Maximum award: $10,000. Eligibility: High school science, mathematics, and technology teachers — or teams of teachers — at public, private, and vocational schools; intra- and inter-school collaborations are welcome.

Living in a Material World Grants

To help K-12 teachers bring the real world of materials science into their classrooms. “Living in a Material World” grants recognize creativity and enhance awareness of materials science and the role that materials play in society.

Mathematics Education Research Travel Grants

The Mathematics Education Research Travel Grants provide full or partial support for travel and subsistence for (1) mathematicians attending a research conference in mathematics education or a related field, and (2) researchers in mathematics education or a related field attending a mathematics conference. Eligible applicants are women holding a doctorate or equivalent who work in the United States. Deadline: October 1, annually.

Monarch Butterfly Scholarship Grant

Natural Habitat Adventures offers Monarch Butterfly Scholarship Grants to environmental educators to travel to the monarch butterfly migration in Central Mexico. Expedition leaders accompany the trip and funding includes travel, accommodation, meals, airport transfers, activities, and entrance fees.

National Agriculture in the Classroom

Certified teachers engaged in classroom instruction at the kindergarten through 12th grade level who wish to use agricultural concepts to teach core subject areas and enhance students’ understanding of agriculture are eligible.

National Association of Biology Teachers

This site has a list of awards especially for biology teachers with prizes ranging from new equipment to professional development trips. The National Association of Biology Teachers Vernier Software & Technology Ecology/Environmental Teaching Award honors a teacher who has successfully developed and demonstrated an innovative approach in the teaching of ecology/environmental science and has carried his/her commitment to the environment into the community. Maximum award: $1,000 toward travel to the NABT Professional Development Conference, and $500 of Vernier equipment. Eligibility: secondary school teachers.

National Association for Environmental Education

The NAEE K-12 Teacher of the Year Award is presented to an individual who is recognized for promoting environmental education and utilizing the environment as a context for learning.

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Grants and Scholarships

The Mathematics Education Trust (MET) provides funding for professional development and recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of mathematics education through grants, scholarships, and awards.

National Science Teachers Association

NSTA has numerous grants and award programs available for teachers.

Outstanding Earth Science Teacher Award

Outstanding Earth Science Teacher (OEST) awards are given for “exceptional contributions to the stimulation of interest in the Earth Sciences at the secondary level.” Middle school and high-school teachers are eligible. Eleven national finalists are selected, one from each National Association of Geosciences Teachers section. Some sections also recognize state winners. Individuals may apply themselves or nominate a colleague for the award.

PASCO STEM Educator Awards

The PASCO STEM Educator Awards are presented annually to honor excellence and innovation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in grades 6 through 12. To be eligible, a teacher must have a minimum of three years of experience in the STEM fields and have implemented inquiry-based, technology-infused STEM programs. One middle level and two high school level recipients are awarded each year.

Presidential Awards for Excellence in Math and Science

The Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) is the highest recognition that a kindergarten through 12th-grade mathematics or science teacher may receive for outstanding teaching in the United States. Enacted by Congress in 1983, this program authorizes the President to bestow up to 108 awards each year. The National Science Foundation administers PAEMST on behalf of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Awards are given to mathematics and science teachers from each of the 50 states and four U.S. jurisdictions. The jurisdictions are Washington, D.C.; Puerto Rico; Department of Defense Schools; and the U.S. territories as a group (American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). The teachers are recognized for their contributions to teaching and learning and their ability to help students make progress in mathematics and science. In addition to honoring individual achievement, the goal of the award program is to exemplify the highest standards of mathematics and science teaching. Awardees serve as models for their colleagues, inspiration to their communities, and leaders in the improvement of mathematics and science education.  Click here.

Dr. Edward C. Roy Jr. Award for Excellence in K-8 Earth Science Teaching

The purpose of this award is to honor the memory of Dr. Edward C. Roy Jr., who was a past president of the American Geosciences Institute (AGI). The award is designed to recognize one teacher of grades K-8 each year for his or her leadership and innovation in Earth Science education. An applicant must be a full-time U.S. classroom teacher who currently provides instruction in Earth Science at the K-8 level with all the responsibilities of such a position.

SAFE K-12 Classroom Teachers Grant

The Society of Aviation & Flight Educators (SAFE) offers K-12 Classroom Teacher Grants designed to encourage teachers to incorporate aviation-themed lessons into their normal curriculum. Aviation and aerospace are topics that generate enthusiasm with all types of learners and all ages of students. An individual teacher or a group of teachers from the same school may apply for a grant to design an aviation-themed classroom unit or complete an aviation-themed project. Any credentialed teacher in a public, private, or charter school may apply for a grant.

Teacher at Sea Program

Apply now to attend a program offered to K-12 educators who wish to experience science and life at sea with NOAA.

Voya Foundation Grants

For innovative and experiential STEM learning opportunities for K-8 students or for financial education curriculum for 9-12 students.

Physics Grants

From the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)- The Bauder Fund Small Grants Program supports activities for AAPT members, such as workshops at the local level that promote physics education utilizing physics apparatus. Funds can purchase equipment and materials used by participants in the workshop. The Bauder Fund does not reimburse indirect or administrative costs.