Project Grant 2501127
- This $349,804 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) funds geospatial technical education services at Central Wyoming College in Riverton, Wyoming. The goal is to increase recruitment, retention, and graduation rates in GIS programs to address workforce gaps for geospatial technicians in central Wyoming. Key services include expanding recruitment and retention efforts focused on underrepresented groups like American Indian students; modifying...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $500,001 Project Grant to Fort Peck Community College (FPCC) to expand its capacity in geography and environmental sciences classes by adding a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Technology Certificate in Applied Science. This award aligns with the NSF STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), which aims to increase the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) instructional and research capacities of higher education institutions...
- The National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) awarded a $832,549 project grant to Learning Partnership LLC, a for-profit educational research organization based in Western Springs, Illinois. The grant, awarded on September 15, 2025, with a completion date of August 31, 2028, aims to expand on the successful Geospatial Semester program by co-developing, implementing, and studying the impact of four geographic information systems (GIS) technology-enhanced curricular...
- This $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports a partnership development and planning project focused on advancing geospatial science representation in informal STEM education offerings in the Greater St. Louis region. The project aims to create a coalition of geospatial innovation organizations from public, private, and government sectors to identify gaps, enable collaboration, and share knowledge and resources. The...
- This federal Project Grant award of $464,753 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to develop and implement four GIS (geographic information systems) technology-enhanced curricular units across Career and Technical Education (CTE) disciplines in Puerto Rican high schools. The "Geospatial Explorers" initiative, led by the small disadvantaged business Computer Learning Centers Inc. (doing business as Forward Learning), will target...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $299,635 Project Grant to Cossatot Community College of the University of Arkansas System under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076). The grant will support Cossatot Community College's efforts to prepare skilled technicians in Geographic Information Systems for agricultural and land management fields from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. As part of the NSF's mission to ensure the vitality of the nation's STEM education enterprise, this project aims to...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund collaborative research between the University of Colorado at Boulder, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, and Utah State University. The $506,181 award, effective August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2030, will scale and expand the STEM Career Connections model to prepare rural middle and high school students in three school districts for technology and computing careers. The...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $998,759 Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to Southwestern Community College District, doing business as Southwestern College, to establish a comprehensive Associate of Science (AS) degree in Geomatics and a Land Surveying certificate program. The project aims to address the workforce shortage in the multidisciplinary field of Geomatics, which integrates surveying, GIS, remote sensing, mapping, and emerging technologies...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) is for a collaborative research initiative to integrate spatial computing technologies into elementary environmental science instruction. The $426,924 project, awarded on September 15, 2025, aims to enhance an existing "Shared Waters" curriculum and foster elementary students' understanding of local watershed ecosystems in low-income communities in West Virginia and Delaware....
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program provides $650,000 to Portland Community College to expand geographic information science and technology education. The award will support innovative strategies to recruit and retain students from underrepresented groups in geospatial programs through partnerships with community organizations, targeted recruitment efforts, teacher training institutes, career workshops, internships, and classroom/lab equipment...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to develop a modern geospatial information science and technology (GIST) curriculum that emphasizes programming, data management, spatial analysis, and dashboards. The $999,881 award to Central Wyoming College will fund the creation of instructional materials tailored to the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem region and support paid internships and research opportunities integrating environmental science. The project will build capacity, create GIST career pathways, and contribute to regional economic growth and environmental stewardship, with a focus on expanding access and fostering collaboration with state, federal, and tribal partners, including the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Tribes. The project will run from August 2025 to July 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $999.9k | 7/29/25 |