Support to establish a Director of STEM Policy position to encourage greater investment in and support for science, technology, engineering and mathematics learning in afterschool.

Visit their site: www.afterschoolalliance.org

The MAPDD (Museums Afterschool: Principles, Data, and Design) project works with partnerships of science museum educators and afterschool programs to develop a set of design principles for high quality informal STEM activities in afterschool, program standards, and assessments, and outcome evidence for what such programming can achieve in the afterschool context, all to be shared with the field.

Visit their site: cils.exploratorium.edu

The Curious Minds Initiative aims to engage more teachers and students in inquiry-based learning and science fair projects.

Visit their site: www.scifair.com

The Science, Engineering and Technology initiative will bring SET programming to a million new youth by 2013. Support includes professional development, curriculum development, program implementation, evaluation and development of marketing and publicity plan.

Visit their site: www.fourhcouncil.edu

Dissemination of the Science Career Ladder Program, an innovative education, employment and mentoring program that provides work experience to high school and college students as museum floor staff, exhibit explainers and interns.

Visit their site: www.nyhallsci.org

PEAR’s Assessment Tools in Informal Science website is an online resource designed to help practitioners, evaluators, researchers, and policymakers select instruments to assess science learning and child outcomes in out-of-school programs. The site includes reviews and ratings by practitioners who are using these tools.

Visit their site: www.pearweb.org/atis

Project Liftoff aims to develop a statewide system in support of afterschool STEM education in Missouri and surrounding Midwestern states, including disseminating excellent STEM curriculum materials, professional development, building a state afterschool web portal, and conducting formative and summative evaluations.

Visit their site: www.moasn.org

Expanding the reach of interesting science programming beyond radio to schools and underserved communities.

Visit their site: www.sciencefriday.com

Support to scale the Build IT program within the Girls Inc. network. Build IT is a technology design program for middle school girls originally supported by the National Science Foundation.

Visit their site: www.ctl.sri.com

Support for the Frontiers in Urban Science Education Initiative to deliver STEM activities in over 100 publicly-funded afterschool programs in New York City, including trainings for program leaders and line staff on research-based STEM curricula, online videos and other web-based support, and program evaluation. The model is being disseminated through the CBASS (Collaborative for Building After-School Systems) network of intermediaries nationally.

Visit their site: www.tascorp.org

Support to scale the Girls Go Techbridge curriculum within the Girl Scouts network nationally. Techbridge, a program of the Chabot Space & Science Center, is a science and engineering program for middle school girls.

Visit their site: www.techbridgegirls.org

Support for the educational outreach and web components of Design Squad, an educational reality TV program for children designed to increase students’ knowledge of engineering and the design process.

Visit their site: pbskids.org/designsquad