STEM Scale-Up Programs

The Iowa STEM Scale-Up Program was launched as a way to meet the Governor's STEM Advisory Council's top priority: Increasing student interest and achievement in STEM across the state.

 

The Iowa Governor’s STEM Advisory Council will begin accepting applications from educators for the 2025-26 STEM Scale-Up Program menu on January 7, 2025.  PreK-12 public and private schools, afterschool programs and other educational organizations are encouraged to apply for the programs to be implemented during the 2025-2026 academic year.

 

TIMELINE

  January 7, 2025 - Application opens.

  February 25, 2025 - Deadline to apply for a Scale-Up program.

  April 4, 2025 - Award recipients are announced.

 

With the top priority of boosting student interest and achievement in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), the Governor's STEM Advisory Council approved 14 high-quality STEM education programs for 2024-25. 

  • All About Balance
  • Artificial Intelligence for K-12 Educators
  • Blackbird Code
  • Derivita Math Program
  • Exploring and connecting to Iowa’s agriculture – Teacher professional development
  • FUSE Studio - Innovate
  • Investigating Everyday Phenomena
  • Making Innovative STEM Connections (MISC)
  • Positive Physics, Chemistry, Physical Science, Biology, Environmental Science & Engineering
  • Robo Wunderkind STEM Program
  • Spatial Vis: The First Step in Design for Engineering and Technology
  • Storytime STEM-packs
  • Teachley Math
  • Turing Tumble

 

To receive the newsletter from the Northeast Region of the Iowa Governor's STEM Advisory Council, please visit the following link.

 

Past Scale-Up Program Awardees

Scale Up Winner Lists

Spreadsheet for 2017-2021

Spreadsheet for 2022-2025