Iowa Governor's STEM Advisory Council

Today's 2025-26 STEM Scale-Up Program menu spotlight is Plant the Moon Challenge🔦 Plant the Moon Challenge is 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. Register for this afternoon's informational webinar or apply today: https://lnkd.in/gEm523P2

Today's 2025-26 STEM Scale-Up Program menu spotlight is Drone Designers🔦 PCS Edventures' Drone Designers: Exploring STEAM Careers introduce learners in grades 4–8 to the world of drones with a STEAMtastic fusion of arts and coding. From using the engineering design process to costume a drone to programming a unique drone "dance" routine, learners mimic and explore real life careers in the arts and entertainment industries. Register for this afternoon's informational webinar or apply today: https://lnkd.in/gqrdpNq7

Today's 2025-26 STEM Scale-Up Program menu spotlight is Overcoming Barriers to STEM Engagement🔦 eGrove Education, Inc.'s 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. Register for this afternoon's informational webinar or apply today: https://lnkd.in/g69juCPm

Our carefully curated Fact Sheets are a great way to learn about the 13 programs on this year's STEM Scale-Up Program menu! Each includes: 📄Program summary 🎯Target grade level 🎒What the award provides 🏫Iowa Standards Alignment 🧑🏫PD opportunities 🙋Plus where to get more info! Read them online or print them off ➡️➡️➡️https://lnkd.in/gYrzg5pF   

Today's 2025-26 STEM Scale-Up Program menu spotlight is OpenSciEd🔦 Presented by Grant Wood AEA, 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. Register for this afternoon's informational webinar or apply today: https://lnkd.in/gTrSbAsa

Today's 2025-26 STEM Scale-Up Program menu spotlight is CodeXcursion🔦 Firia Labs' 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. Register for this afternoon's or next month's informational webinar or apply today: https://lnkd.in/gBxNmhzc

Today's 2025-26 STEM Scale-Up Program menu spotlight is Grow, Create, Innovate🔦 Maker Maven's 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. Register for tomorrow's informational webinar or apply today: https://lnkd.in/gGW5cHTg

Today's 2025-26 STEM Scale-Up Program menu spotlight is All About Balance🔦 All About Balance allows children in grades PK-3 to become more curious and engaged as they actively explore the role of balance within the world of objects and with their own bodies. Register for this afternoon's informational webinar or apply today: https://lnkd.in/gg7-XUdG

Today's 2025-26 STEM Scale-Up Program menu spotlight is Barobo C-STEM Robotics🔦 Barobo, Inc. C-STEM Afterschool and Summer Robotics and Robotics-Math Programs integrates coding and robotics into PK-12 mathematics education, using both virtual and hardware robots in a standards-aligned curriculum to enhance engagement and boost achievement. Register for one of the upcoming informational webinars or apply now: https://lnkd.in/gvTzQtYc

Don't take our word for it, here's why you'll want to be in this summer's Iowa STEM Teacher Externships Program! We're looking for teacher externs and workplace hosts for this summer. Apply now! https://lnkd.in/gdX5XXdF