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2024-25 STEM Scale-Up Program Menu

The following is the list of programs awarded as part of the STEM Scale-Up Program for the 2024-25 school year. Programs for the 2025-26 school year will be announced on Dec. 31, 2025, via the Iowa STEM newsletter.

 

2024-25 STEM Scale-Up programs: Fact Sheet Packet

Click on the fact sheet for each program for more information about that program in a printable format. 

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All About Balance

Watch your children become more curious and engaged as they actively explore the role of balance within the world of objects, and with their own bodies.

Artificial Intelligence

AI for K-12 Educators is a professional development series that provides educators with a high-level understanding of how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) impact our society.

Blackbird Code

A collection of online curricula that teaches math or science through the lens of coding. Students write real, text-based programs which bring to life the core concepts they are learning.

Derivita Math

Platform maximizes the impact of your current math curriculum and increases student engagement in math.

Exploring and Connecting to Iowa's Agriculture

Exploring and Connecting to Iowa’s Agriculture is a two-day professional development workshop that engages educators with ag professionals and classroom curriculum.

FUSE Studio

FUSE creates onramps to deeper STEAM engagement and encourages STEAM exploration through an innovative, challenge-based approach and studio-like environment.

Investigating Everyday Phenomena

A program designed to captivate young minds while demystifying real-world phenomena.

Making Innovative STEM Connection

This lesson design framework focuses around the idea that making and tinkering are ways to engage student’s minds and build conceptual understanding around academic content.

Positive Physics, Chemistry, Physical Science, Biology, Environmental Science & Engineering

An engaging, online lesson and problem bank. The site was designed to be accessible to students on any level from basic to AP.

Robo Wunderkind STEM Program

Offers easy-to-use building blocks and a series of age-appropriate coding apps that develop computational thinking skills and spark a curiosity for STEAM in young learners.

Spatial Vis: The First Step in Design for Engineering and Technology

A tool to teach freehand sketching and improve students’ spatial skills.

Storytime STEM-packs: STEM + Computer Science

Incorporate age-appropriate STEM+C concepts into children’s programming. Children collaboratively explain phenomena or solve the problem, thereby making sense of the STEM concept.

Teachley Math

Enhances K-5 core math curricula by building students’ conceptual understanding, fluency, and problem-solving skills across addition, subtraction, place value/base ten, multiplication, fractions, and measurement/data.

Turing Tumble

A revolutionary STEM game that teaches how computers work at a fundamental level. Students build marble-powered, mechanical computers to solve a series of structured logic puzzles using their own hands instead of a screen.

Past STEM Scale-Up Programs