STEMester of Service Grants

Deadline: July 15, 2010

From Youth Service America (YSA). Funded by Learn and Serve America, a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service, STEMester of Service incorporates YSA’s semester-long service-learning framework to engage educators and students in addressing critical environmental needs and connecting them to STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) curricula, specifically science and technology.

YSA is seeking 10 middle schools with large populations of disadvantaged youth to join 20 returning STEMester of Service grantees. STEM schools must be located in one of the 12 states with highest dropout rates (Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, and Washington).

The $5,000 grant (that includes travel and training at YSA’s Youth Service Institute in Detroit in October) supports teachers as they engage local partners and guide students in addressing local needs through planning and implementing sustainable service projects that launch on Martin Luther King, Jr Day of Service (January 17, 2011) and culminate on Global Youth Service Day (April 15-17, 2011).

Applications are due July 15, 2010. Grants will be announced in late July.

To apply, please take the eligibility quiz available at the following site: www.cybergrants.com/ysa/stem/quiz.

If you have questions about this program, please e-mail STEMester@ysa.org

For more information, including grant requirements: http://www.ysa.org/grants/stem

NEW ELIGIBLE STATES: The STEMester of Service grant program targets states with the highest dropout rates. Based on the most recent dropout rate data released last week, YSA has added 7 states to the list of eligible states, including: the District of Columbia, California, Hawaii, Michigan, Montana, Rhode Island, and Wyoming. Middle schools in these states, in addition to those in the original 12 states, are eligible.