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2025-26 STEM Scale-Up Program Menu

Learn more about this year's program menu by reviewing the 2025-26 STEM Scale-Up fact sheet packet or explore by program below.

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All About Balance

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

 

Barobo C-STEM Afterschool and Summer Robotics and Robotics-Math Programs

Integrates coding and robotics into PK-12 math education, using both virtual and hardware robots in a standards-aligned curriculum to enhance engagement and boost achievement.

 

CodeJoy Presents: Micro:bit in the Wild

Uses micro:bit to teach educators about Environmental Literacy through hands-on activities with computer science.

 

CodeXcursion: Teach Python Coding with CodeX

Provides opportunities for students to start with Python basics and progress to exciting projects like creating games and simulations.

 

Drone Designers: Exploring STEAM Careers

Takes a multidisciplinary approach to introducing learners in grades 4–8 to the world of drones and coding, with an emphasis on their use in the arts and entertainment industries.

 

Getting Started with Elementary OpenSciEd Curriculum

Reimagines the experience of science education to ensure that all students, regardless of their previous exposure to science, can excel in and outside of the classroom.

 

Grow, Create, Innovate: The STEAM-Powered Art

Allows students to engage in standards-aligned activities such as the Reaction Game, which explores physics and chemistry through interactive play, The Operation Game combines logic with mechanical design while DNA Modeling merges biology with creative visualization. Students can also build an Automata, which integrates engineering with artistic design.

 

MathNation.com

Offers comprehensive resources for middle and high school math. Math Nation+ uses interactive videos, practice tools and personalized learning paths to engage students in deep mathematical understanding.

 

Overcoming Barriers to STEM Engagement: A Cross-Curricular Structural and Wind Energy Project Using Sketching as the First Step

Provides a hands-on project with wind energy technology that builds engagement with STEM. This project includes design of a scale tower to support a wind turbine, with load and deflection testing.

 

Plant the Moon Challenge

A global science experiment, learning experience, and inspirational project-based-learning challenge. Students compete to see who can grow the best crops using lunar and Martian regolith stimulant.

 

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

Provides an engaging, online lesson and problem bank for middle and high school science. The site was built by teachers in diverse classrooms and designed to be accessible to students on any level from middle school to advanced placement (AP)

 

Spintronics: Engineer and Design Mechanical Circuits

Allows students to learn electronics through hands-on puzzles instead of complex math. Instead of imagining invisible electrons running through wires, the students can see the chains moving through the sprockets.

 

STEAM Innovators K-8: Pathways for Future Leaders

Designed to make STEM concepts engaging by integrating the arts and blending creativity with science, technology, engineering and math to foster innovation, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

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