Title
NSF Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12)
Agencies
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Description
This program provides funding for graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines to bring their leading research practice and findings into K-12 learning settings. Through collaborations with other graduate fellows and faculty from STEM disciplines, teachers and students in K-12 environments, and community partners, graduate students can gain a deeper understanding of their own research and place it within a societal and global context. The GK-12 program provides an opportunity for graduate students to acquire value-added skills, such as communicating STEM subjects to technical and non-technical audiences, leadership, team building, and teaching while enriching STEM learning and instruction in K-12 settings. This unique experience will add value to the training of U.S. graduate students and will energize and prepare the students for a broad range of STEM careers in a competitive globalized marketplace. Furthermore, the GK-12 program provides institutions of higher education with an opportunity to transform the conventional graduate education by infusing and sustaining GK-12 like activities in their graduate programs.
More Information
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09549/nsf09549.htm?govDel=USNSF_25
Submission Limits
One proposal per institution. Institutions having an active or past GK-12 project are eligible to submit a new proposal, but they must coordinate evaluation efforts of any projects located on the same campus or working with the same school districts. They must also specify the outcomes, lessons learned, best practices, and sustainability efforts of prior projects. Renewal proposals will not be accepted.
Cost Sharing:
Cost Sharing is not required under this solicitation.
Deadlines
Internal Notice of Intent |
Apr 14, 2009 |
Notification of Internal Competition |
Apr 15, 2009 |
Internal Pre-proposal |
Apr 23, 2009 |
Results of Internal Competition |
May 1, 2009 |
Agency Notice of Intent/Pre-proposal |
May 19, 2009 |
Agency Proposal |
Jun 29, 2009
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