The Higher Education Incentive Program provides supplementary grants for innovative higher education interdisciplinary course development, conference and workshop support for students or teachers. This program encourages the development and the dissemination of software, problem sets, videos, publications, and labs to support higher education courses in mathematics, science, technology, and space or aerospace related topics. Physics Day at Cedar Point, Ohio. Students in Robotics Laboratory Rochester High School, Michigan.
Eligible programs can occur inside or outside the classroom.
The K-12 Educator Incentive Program supports teachers who attend conferences on mathematics, science, and technology, and who engage in educational enhancement activities in mathematics, science and technology. A Consortium-Wide Summer Workshop on Earth and Space Sciences is held annually at the University of Michigan. This workshop covers a range of activities, including lectures, projects, and field trips. Teachers and students are invited to participate in this residential workshop. The Public Outreach Program supports conferences, workshops, publications, lecture series, nontechnical course, science fairs, and radio and television programs which serve the general public with a focus on enhancing literacy in mathematics, science, and technology in general and space science, aerospace, and aeronautics in particular.