The ITEST Program offers this grant to cultivate the U.S. STEM workforce by fostering innovative technology experiences for K-12 students and teachers. This grant supports developing, implementing, and researching models that prepare students for future STEM/ICT careers, addressing workforce demands. Projects can explore any STEM content, particularly robotics competitions, to enhance STEM learning and 21st-century skills. The program aims to identify effective strategies for motivating and equipping students. Grant types (Scale-up, Strategies, Research) aim to build students’ STEM capacity. Proposals benefiting underserved and underrepresented groups in STEM are especially encouraged.
Opportunity ID: 66674
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | 11-525 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Grant |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Science and Technology and other Research and Development |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 30 |
| Assistance Listings: | 47.076 — Education and Human Resources |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | Yes |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Jan 26, 2011 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | May 13, 2011 Letter of Intent Due Date(s) (required) (due by 5 p.m. proposer’s local time): March 11, 2011 Full Proposal Deadline(s): May 13, 2011 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | May 13, 2011 Letter of Intent Due Date(s) (required) (due by 5 p.m. proposer’s local time): March 11, 2011 Full Proposal Deadline(s): May 13, 2011 |
| Archive Date: | – |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $20,000,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | $2,150,000 |
| Award Floor: | $300,000 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | – |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | U.S. National Science Foundation |
| Description: | The ITEST program responds to current concerns and projections about the growing demand for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professionals in the U.S. and seeks solutions to help ensure the breadth and depth of the STEM workforce. ITEST supports the development, implementation, testing, and scale-up of implementation models. It also supports research studies to address questions that point to solutions for building a strong, competent STEM workforce. A variety of possible approaches to supporting the future STEM workforce and to building students’ capacity to participate in that important workforce may be implemented and studied. ITEST projects must include students and may include teachers. The target audience is kindergarten through high school age, and projects may focus on any content area related to the STEM workforce. Projects that explore the impact of robotics competitions are of special interest; specifically, ITEST is placing emphasis on proposals to design and implement robotics competitions, and to study their effectiveness as a means of engaging students in learning STEM content and 21st Century skills. The ITEST program is interested in addressing such questions as: What does it take to effectively interest and prepare students to participate in the STEM workforce of the future? How do students acquire the knowledge, skills, and dispositions they need in order to participate productively in the changing STEM workforce? How can we assess and predict students’ inclination to participate in the STEM fields, and how can we measure the impact of various models that encourage that participation? Types of ITEST Projects Three types of projects are invited: Scale-up projects implement and test models that prepare students for the STEM and information and communications technology (ICT) workforce of the future in a large-scale setting, such as at state or national level. A scale-up project must be based on evidence of demonstrated success from an existing strategy targeting students or teachers. Strategies projects are targeted at students and/or teachers. These projects design, implement, and evaluate models for classroom, after-school, summer, virtual, and/or year-round learning experiences. The strategies are intended to encourage students’ readiness for, and their interest and participation in, the STEM and ICT-intensive workforce of the future. Strategies proposals must describe the anticipated contributions to the research knowledge base about STEM career preparation in addition to immediate impacts on participants. Research projects enrich the understanding of issues related to growing the STEM workforce. Projects may conduct efficacy and effectiveness studies of intervention models; conduct longitudinal studies of efforts to engage students in the STEM areas; develop instruments to assess engagement, persistence, and other relevant constructs of student motivation; or conduct studies to identify predictors of student inclination to pursue STEM career trajectories. The program is especially interested in projects that target students from groups that are underserved and underrepresented in STEM and ICT-intensive careers, including those residing in rural and economically disadvantaged communities. |
| Link to Additional Information: | NSF Publication 11-525 |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
NSF grants.gov support
grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov Email:grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov |
Version History
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Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | NSF grants.gov support grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov Email: grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47.076 | PKG00029531 | Jan 26, 2011 | May 13, 2011 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
66674 RR_SF424_1_2-1.2.pdf
66674 PerformanceSite_1_4-1.4.pdf
66674 RR_OtherProjectInfo_1_3-1.3.pdf
66674 RR_KeyPersonExpanded_1_2-1.2.pdf
66674 RR_PersonalData_1_2-1.2.pdf
66674 RR_Budget-1.1.pdf
66674 NSF_CoverPage_1_3-1.3.pdf
Optional forms
66674 RR_SubawardBudget-1.2.pdf
66674 NSF_DeviationAuthorization-1.1.pdf
66674 NSF_SuggestedReviewers-1.1.pdf
66674 NSF_Registration_1_3-1.3.pdf
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