Vote for NCTAF’s STEM Learning Studios!

We are pleased to announce that NCTAF’s STEM Learning Studios project has been selected as a finalist in the Partnering for Excellence: Innovations in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education competition, in partnership with Carnegie Corporation of New York and The Opportunity Equation. We were selected from 265 innovations received from around the country!

Please help support our education innovation! By voting for us, you keep us in the running for the $20,000 People’s Choice Award.

There are three ways to vote:

1. With just a couple of clicks, vote using Facebook.

If you do not have a Facebook account, you may use one of the following two options, both of which will prompt you to create a changemakers.com account:

2. Vote using our widget below.

3. Vote directly through the Changemakers website.

The title of our innovation is STEM Learning Studios: Transform School from Teaching Organizations into Learning Organizations, and the contributor is Tom Carroll. We are also a finalist in the Special Focus Prizes competition.

The voting process lasts from Wednesday, October 5th to Wednesday, October 26th. You may only vote once, but you can help build the movement by sharing this with your networks!


About STEM Learning Studios:
NCTAF STEM Learning Studios are cross-curricular, interdisciplinary teams of 4-6 teachers who collaboratively develop and implement hands-on projects. These teams of teachers in high-needs schools work with STEM professional volunteers from the community, who become part-time, long-term participants in schools. Built on 3 proven strategies (project-based learning; collaborative teaching; and well-structured participation by STEM professionals), Learning Studios emphasize the interconnectedness of STEM subjects and utilize practicing scientists and real-world resources. Projects have included a quest to quantify school energy use and building fuel cells with a NASA engineer. An independent evaluation has documented how Learning Studios improve student achievement and teaching effectiveness.