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  • Aberdeen Science and Math Academy (SMA)

    The Science and Mathematics Academy at Aberdeen High School is a school?within?a? school magnet program that provides academically talented students with educational experiences that integrate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics beyond the traditional advanced program. Admission to this rigorous four?year program is by competitive application based on prior academic success, interest and motivation in science and mathematics, teacher recommendations and written communication skills.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Grades 9-12,All Students
    General Education,STEM

     


  • Army Educational Outreach Program (AEOP)

    The Army Educational Outreach Program (AEOP) is comprised of Army-sponsored research, education, competitions, internships and practical experiences designed to engage and guide students and teachers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Grades 9-12,College Students,All Students,JROTC Cadets,Soldiers,Educators
    Army Education Opportunities,Career Planning,College Planning/Prep

     


  • Army Motorsports Education Outreach

    Through the Army’s Motorsports Education Outreach Program, thousands of students from area high schools, vocational schools and community colleges are exposed to motorsports and have the opportunity to experience a day at the races at no cost. During students’ visit to the track they interact with industry insiders such as NASCAR drivers, race team members and automotive engineers as well as Army recruiters and drill sergeants. The content of the program focuses on the importance of education and staying in school. Army’s goal is to educate students about career planning and the importance of setting goals as well as to inform students about career opportunities in motorsports and the Army.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Grades 9-12,College Students,All Students
    Life Skills

     


  • Army ROTC

    Army Reserve Officer Training Corps is a unique college elective that teaches students leadership skills used in the Army, but also can be applied in any field. Students receive credit for ROTC classes, which are applied toward their diploma. Upon graduation, they receive a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. In addition to the educational and military benefits, ROTC also awards scholarships based solely on merit to thousands of students each year. Qualifying students can get scholarships worth up to $80,000 at some schools, including a monthly allowance.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    All Students
    Army Education Opportunities,College Planning/Prep,General Education,Leadership Skills

     


  • ASVAB Career Exploration Program

    The ASVAB Career Exploration Program is a career planning and exploration program that combines a multiple-aptitude test with an interest self-assessment and a wide range of career exploration tools.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    All Students
    Career Planning

     


  • Boost

    The Boost campaign is intended to help support and encourage the nearly 7,000 kids a day who drop out of high school. Boost is about giving potential graduates at-risk of dropping out the support they need to stay in school and on-track for graduation. This site is full of great resources and ideas to help you make a difference in the lives of students.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Grades 9-12,All Students
    General Education

     


  • Challenge Bowl

    The College Options team has developed a series of practical and easy to use resources designed to excite students about learning and encourage them to pursue their educational goals. It includes a unique software program that allows students to compete in academic competitions from their own schools or homes against students from around the world


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Grades 9-12,College Students,All Students
    General Education

     


  • Concurrent Admissions Program (ConAP)

    The Concurrent Admissions Program aims to build partnerships between Army recruiters and local colleges by helping encourage Soldiers to continue education during and after their enlistment. A majority of individuals joining the United States Army list education as the primary reason for enlistment, and the Army prides itself on its long history of providing quality educational opportunities to soldiers. ConAP is a unique program to the Army and Army Reserve that establishes a plan for post secondary education at the time of enlistment. 


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Soldiers
    College Planning/Prep

     


  • Consortium Research Fellows Program

    The Consortium Research Fellows Program (CRFP) is a partnership between the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area and several Department of Defense agencies. The current goals of the CRFP are to provide educationally-relevant, well-paid, professional experiences for undergraduate and graduate students, provide research opportunities for faculty, provide high-quality technical and analytical support to sponsoring agencies, and groom a new generation of scientists, who either directly as government employees or indirectly as contractors, will support Department of Defense (DoD) Research & Development in the future.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    College Students,All Students
    College Planning/Prep,Internships/Job Placement

     


  • Credentialing Opportunities On-line (COOL)

    Army Credentialing Opportunities On-Line (COOL) is a Web site that provides information on how soldiers can fulfill the requirements for civilian certifications and licenses related to their military occupational specialties (MOS). This site also provides information on career fields that match military occupational specialties. 


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Soldiers
    Internships/Job Placement

     


  • CyberPatriot

    CyberPatriot is the National High School Cyber Defense Competition.  Designed to instill in all participants the importance to our nation of cyber, cybersecurity and good computer security practices.   The program is structured to excite, educate, and motivate participants.  The competition consists of two parallel competitions, Open Division (public, parochial, approved home school programs) and an All Service Division (JROTC and Civil Air Patrol.)  The first three qualifying rounds are conducted from the teams’ home locations and the National Finals Competition is held at the Gaylord National Hotel located in National Harbor, Maryland.  Twenty-four qualifying teams receive all expenses paid trips to the national finals.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Grades 9-12,All Students
    General Education,STEM

     


  • Discovery Museum Space & Science Center

    The Discovery Museum Science & Space Center has operated for 60 years as a 501(C)(3) nonprofit agency. Originally founded in 1951 as the California Junior Museum, the Center was designed as a space where children could experience science and nature through interactive programs and exhibits. Today, the Discovery Museum is one of Northern California's premier institutions with an emphasis on STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) education and hands-on learning.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Grades 9-12,College Students,All Students,JROTC Cadets,Soldiers,Educators
    General Education,STEM

     


  • eCYBERMISSION

    eCYBERMISSION is a free, web-based Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics competition for students in grades six through nine. Students compete for regional and national awards while working to solve problems in their communities.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    All Students
    STEM

     


  • Emerging Technology Day

    The Indianapolis Motor Speedway serves as an incubator and proving ground of automotive innovation each May for Emerging Technology Day. At this event, some of the best, brightest young minds in America display innovative renewable technologies for the automotive industry. The event features an exhibition competition at IMS by alternative-power vehicles in the Formula Hybrid and American Solar Challenge series and the Purdue GrandPrix.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    All Students
    General Education,STEM

     


  • Financing College and Admissions

    The Complete Guide to College Financing and Admissions is a revolutionary nine-hour DVD program that provides everything students need to know to navigate the complex college admissions and financing process in a single resource. Users are linked to hundreds of Websites that bring to life the advice of counselors and administrators to save thousands of dollars in college costs and get into a college that is right for them.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Grades 9-12,All Students
    College Planning/Prep

     


  • Gains in the Education of Mathematics and Science (GEMS)

    Gains in the Education of Mathematics and Science (GEMS) is a one- to four-week program that allows students an opportunity to participate in a paid internship over the summer in an Army Laboratory learning the real life application of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    College Students,All Students
    Internships/Job Placement

     


  • GoArmyEd.Com

    GoArmyEd.com is the virtual gateway for Soldiers on Active Duty to request Tuition Assistance (TA) online for classroom, distance learning and eArmyU online college courses. In addition, this site contains information about Education Centers, which provide Soldiers with job-related instruction to improve basic educational competencies necessary for job proficiency, skill qualification, advanced schooling and career progression. These programs focus on reading and math skills Soldiers need on the job; reclassification purposes; and preparation for lifelong learning.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Soldiers
    College Planning/Prep

     


  • High School Financial Planning Program, National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE)

    Since 1984, NEFE has been addressing youth financial literacy with the nationally known NEFE High School Financial Planning Program® (HSFPP). The HSFPP consists of a seven unit student manual, instructor’s guide, and a dynamic suite of Web pages that offer a large, continually growing collection of resources, articles, and financial tools for teachers, students, and parents. 


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Grades 9-12,All Students,Educators
    Life Skills

     


  • Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition

    The IGVC offers a design experience that is at the very cutting edge of engineering education. It is multidisciplinary, theory-based, hands-on, team implemented, outcome assessed, and based on product realization. It encompasses the very latest technologies impacting industrial development and taps subjects of high interest to students.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Grades 9-12,College Students,All Students,Educators
    General Education,STEM

     


  • International Mathematics Olympiad (JROTC)

    The Army sponsors a team to represent the United States at the International Mathematics Olympiad, competing with teams from other countries. This annual mathematics competition for high school students is the oldest of the International Science Olympiads. 


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Grades 9-12,All Students
    STEM

     


  • Internships Science & Engineering Program (ISEP)

    Students in this program assist the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) researchers on projects during the summer prior to senior year in high school. All students are required to give a formal presentation of their research.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Grades 9-12,All Students
    Internships/Job Placement,STEM

     


  • Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC)

    JROTC prepares high school students for leadership roles while promoting graduation from high school. JROTC helps advance the educational and employment opportunities for today's youth by fostering education at the high school level. Many of the Army Education Programs you will find on ArmyEdSpace.com are part of the JROTC curriculum.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Grades 9-12,All Students
    General Education,Leadership Skills

     


  • Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) Leadership and Academic Bowl (JLAB)

    The Army JROTC Leadership Symposium & Academic Bowl is a nationally recognized academic competition and leadership skills event created exclusively for JROTC students.  The program is operated by the College Options Foundation, a national 501 c3, with support from the George C. Marshall Foundation.  Participating students learn the values of citizenship, academic competition, college opportunity, and leadership. 


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Grades 9-12,All Students
    College Planning/Prep

     


  • Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (JSHS)

    This annual high school competition helps students develop oral presentation skills and emphasizes the ethical conduct of original research. U.S. Army Research Laboratory scientists and engineers are judges in the Maryland regional competition and provide students mission-related research topics and summer internships. Scholarships are awarded to highly talented students.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Grades 9-12,All Students
    College Planning/Prep

     


  • Junior Solar Sprint (JSS)

    The Junior Solar Sprint (JSS) is a model solar electric car program recognized nationwide as an innovative way to inspire middle school students to study in the fields of science, mathematics and engineering. Through hands-on experimentation, students learn how to build model solar cars and tackle issues in engineering process, properties of materials, forces and motion, electricity and magnetism, ratios and geometry, and craftsmanship. Along the way, students explore scientific concepts and technologies that can help our country address issues of global climate change, reduce air and water pollution, and reduce our dependence on foreign sources of fuel. Additionally, teams can enter their cars in local design and race competitions with top winners invited to NESEA's annual championship.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    All Students
    STEM

     


  • March 2 Success

    March2Success is a tool that students can use to help them higher their standardized test scores in the areas of Science, Math and English. March2Success provides materials needed to help improve standardized scores on tests such as SAT, ACT and ASVAB.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Grades 9-12,All Students
    College Planning/Prep,STEM

     


  • National Guard Energy Lab

    The Energy Lab brings the world of math and science to life for 11th- and 12th-grade students with a 24-seat on-board theater and four cutting-edge experiences designed to fuel students’ curiosity through hi-tech, competitive interactions. Along with using captivating experiences to teach students about math and science, The Energy Lab also demonstrates new career opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) related field and acts as an innovative resource to schools and teachers through direct contact with students, an online web portal, and a national math and science contest.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Grades 9-12,All Students,Educators
    General Education,STEM

     


  • National Guard GED Plus Program

    The Army National Guard has authorized the enlistment of applicants having neither a high school diploma nor alternate education credential (GED, National Guard Youth Challenge, Correspondence Diploma, etc). The Applicants will enlist under the "Army National Guard GED Plus Program." The enlistee has three options: Online only, Resident and Alternate State Option.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Grades 9-12,All Students
    General Education

     


  • National Guard Mobile Learning Center

    The Mobile Learning Center engages students in schools and communities across the country with hi-tech hands on learning experiences focused on the math and science behind the career fields in energy efficiency. Program outreach also provides educators with tools and information to assist students with STEM education and career guidance.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Grades 9-12,All Students
    General Education,STEM

     


  • National Science Center JROTC STEM Programs

    The National Science Center(NSC) provides hands-on math and science training for Army, Air Force, and Navy JROTC Cadets through summer camp and in-school programs. The NSC provides curriculum and materials for activities that involve “learning by doing.” Cadets explore basic electronics by constructing items such as battery-powered cars, spinning coil motors, series and parallel circuits, flashlights, burglar alarms, telegraph keys, electromagnets and engraving pencils.  Math activities focus on problem solving and modeling.  


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    JROTC Cadets
    General Education,STEM

     


  • National Science Center Mobile Discovery Centers

    The National Science Center takes science on the road with its Mobile Discovery Centers. Housed in an 18-wheelers, the two mobile centers travel across the country, presenting exciting physical science hands-on demonstrations designed to show young people that studying science and math is fun as well as essential to their future.  


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    All Students
    General Education,STEM

     


  • NHRA Youth and Education Services (Y.E.S.) Program

    The NHRA's Youth & Education Services (Y.E.S.) program presented by the U.S. Army is motorsports' first and only full-time program devoted exclusively to educational programming. The Y.E.S. program was created in 1989 as a tool to connect education and drag racing. Since its inception, the Y.E.S. program has continued to expand and improve its programs, seminars, literature and educational material. 


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Grades 9-12,All Students,Educators
    General Education

     


  • Project Lead The Way

    Project Lead The Way (PLTW) is the leading provider of rigorous and innovative Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) education curricular programs used in middle and high schools across the U.S.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Grades 9-12,All Students
    General Education,STEM

     


  • Research & Engineering Apprentice Program (REAP)

    The Research and Engineering Apprentice Program is a summer program for students, providing a hands-on experience in a lab environment at 40 colleges in over 30 states. The U.S. Army Research Laboratory supports 95 REAP internships each year.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    College Students,All Students
    College Planning/Prep,General Education,STEM

     


  • Revolution Racing

    Headquartered in Mooresville, N.C., Revolution Racing, owned by Max Siegel and John Story, brings together championship caliber executives, competition staff and equipment in a unique academy-style environment. Revolution currently operates four NASCAR K&N Pro Series East teams, under the direction of four-time K&N Pro Series champion Andy Santerre, and six NASCAR Whelen All?American Series teams, led by former Greenville-Pickens (S.C.) Speedway track champion Blair Addis. In addition, Revolution Racing manages a youth racing initiative that allows kids ages 8-14 to compete in the INEX Bandolero and INEX Legend cars. The team also trains aspiring female and minority pit crew athletes through the Drive for Diversity Crew Member Development program presented by Sprint.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Grades 9-12,College Students,All Students,Educators
    General Education

     


  • Science and Technology Academic Recognition System (STARS)

    The Science and Technology Academic Recognition System (STARS) provides internships, fellowships and employment opportunities for qualified undergraduate and graduate students in the U.S. Army Research Laboratory.  This training and development program is designed to reach talented students at Historicaly Black Colleges & Universities who are enrolled in a science, engineering, or mathematics curriculum. The program offers up to $20,000 for tuition and expenses during the senior undergraduate year and up to $30,000 for each of two years of graduate school.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    College Students,All Students
    College Planning/Prep,STEM

     


  • Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges, Army Degree (SOCAD)

    This program aims to develop articulated associate and/or bachelor's military occupation specialties (MOS) degree plans and to disseminate information to Soldiers, allowing them to make informed decisions about pursuing a certain degree. The SOCAD Army Career Degree Program advances the SOCAD concept by more thoroughly and comprehensively articulating degree options directly related to Soldiers’ MOSs.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Soldiers
    College Planning/Prep

     


  • Starbase

    The STARBASE program strives raise the interest and improve the knowledge and skills of at-risk youth in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, which will provide for a highly educated and skilled American workforce that can meet the advanced technological requirements of the Department of Defense.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    All Students
    General Education,STEM

     


  • STEM Learning Modules

    This National Science Foundation-funded program is used by 9,000 students nationwide. The program includes interdisciplinary modules based on topics in materials science used in middle and high school science, technology and math classes.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Grades 9-12,All Students
    General Education,STEM

     


  • Success Profiler

    The Success Profiler is an assessment and skill intervention system targeting social/emotional intelligence. All of the U.S. Army JROTCs use the Success Profiler program in helping develop goal setting as well as social/emotional learning in Cadets at over 1,500 programs throughout the United States.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Grades 9-12,All Students,JROTC Cadets
    Career Planning,Leadership Skills,Life Skills

     


  • Summer Engineering Experience for Kids (SEEK)

    The Summer Engineering Experience for Kids (SEEK) camp is a free three-week program targeting students in grades 3-8. This program will introduce students to the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (S.T.E.M.) fields. The program is facilitated primarily by collegiate members of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE).


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    All Students
    General Education,STEM

     


  • Teen Getgoing

    Teen Getgoing is a Web-based outpatient service for those in need of treatment for substance abuse. This program is targeted toward high school students to help overcome the barriers of distance, convenience and privacy by making treatment groups available online


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Grades 9-12,All Students
    Life Skills

     


  • The Science, Math and Research for Transformation (SMART)

    The Science, Mathematics And Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship for Service Program is an opportunity for students pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines to receive a full scholarship and be gainfully employed upon degree completion.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    College Students,All Students
    College Planning/Prep,General Education,STEM

     


  • Uninitiates Introduction to Engineering (UNITE)

    UNITE aims to promote careers in engineering and technology by providing disadvantaged high school students with the opportunity to participate in college-structured academic enrichment programs, with courses in chemistry, physics, algebra and calculus. Seven colleges host UNITE students during the summer.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Grades 9-12,All Students
    General Education,STEM

     


  • Urban Youth Academies

    The Major League Baseball Urban Youth Academy is a youth baseball academy with locations in Houston, Compton and Miami that provides free baseball and softball instruction to Southern California youth, ages 8–17


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Grades 9-12,All Students
    General Education

     


  • Viva Technology/Great Minds in STEM

    Viva Technology™ is designed to engage inner-city and rural K-12 students, teachers and parents in activities that stimulate their interest and academic achievement in STEM subjects. This innovative program features team challenges; direct and intense interaction with college engineering and science majors; and powerful, eye opening conversations with world class engineers, technologists, scientists, and mathematicians - all on their own campus!  


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Grades 9-12,All Students,Educators
    General Education,STEM

     


  • We The People: The Citizen and the Constitution

    As part of the Center for Civic Education, the primary goal of this program is to promote civic competence and responsibility among the nation's elementary and secondary students. What makes the program so successful is the design of its instructional program, including its innovative culminating activity, a simulated congressional hearing. Since its origin in 1969, Center materials have been used in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as in the trust territories and many regions across the world.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    All Students
    General Education

     


  • West Point

    Renowned as the world’s premier leader development institution, West Point accomplishes its mission by developing cadets intellectually, physically, militarily, ethically, spiritually, and socially. The student body, or Corps of Cadets, numbers 4,400 and each year approximately 1000 cadets join the Long Gray Line as they graduate and are commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. Admission is open to all young men and women, and is extremely competitive. Applicants are evaluated on your academic, physical and leadership potential. 


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Grades 9-12,All Students
    Army Education Opportunities,College Planning/Prep,General Education,Leadership Skills

     


  • West Point Bridge Design Contest

    The purpose of the contest is to provide middle school and high school students with a realistic, engaging introduction to engineering using the West Point Bridge Design software.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Grades 9-12,All Students
    General Education,STEM

     


  • West Point-Middle School STEM Workshop

    This unique middle school program offers students the opportunity to participate in hands-on science, technology, engineering and mathematics activities taught by Academy faculty and cadet mentors. 


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    All Students
    General Education,STEM

     


  • Women in Science Project (WISP)

    The Women in Science Project was created at Dartmouth College to encourage interested women to stay in mathematics, science and engineering.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    All Students
    STEM

     


  • You Can School Program (YCSP)

    The goal of the YOU CAN School program is to put students in contact with real-life role models who can give them essential skills, shift their thinking, and help them make wise decisions—now and throughout their lives. Presentations are available in four topic areas: Health & Social Well-Being, Life Betterment & Career Preparation, Discovery and Disaster Preparedness.


    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    All Students
    Career Planning,Life Skills

     


  • Youth ChalleNGe Program

     

    The National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program is a preventative at-risk youth program, which targets participants who are unemployed, drug-free and law-free high-school dropouts, 16 to 18 years of age. Core components of the program include: 

    • Responsible Citizenship
    • Academic Excellence
    • Life-Coping Skills
    • Service to Community
    • Health and Hygiene
    • Job Skills Training
    • Leadership/Followership
    • Physical Fitness

    Intended Audience:
    Category/Subject Matter:
    Grades 9-12,All Students
    Internships/Job Placement,Leadership Skills,Life Skills