To capture, channel, and enhance the interest of teachers and students in science, mathematics, engineering, technology, and geography. This three-day program is specifically designed to serve urban middle school students and includes lectures, demonstrations, and structured classroom activities, as well as training for core teachers in how to conduct interdisciplinary aerospace activities. Selected teachers spend a year in Washington, DC, working in a Congressional office, federal agency, or the White House.
Award includes a monthly stipend and moving expenses.
The cross-curricular activity sets a team of four students the task of identifying a community problem, looking into it, coming up with an innovative solution, and having fun as they do it. To support innovative projects that enhance mathematics education within a school. This program for middle, junior high, and high school teachers begins with a one-week summer seminar and continues throughout the following school year. Each year 140 GIFT Fellows are selected. The American Association of University Women has members and branches across the country, and grant proposals that involve collaborations with AAUW will receive funding preference.