Searching for Middle Schools to Test Pilot STEM Maker Kits

Photo Courtesy: USDA Food and Nutrition Service

We are offering a total of $10,000 in grants to ten middle school science classrooms and ten after school programs serving middle school age students. Participating schools/after school programs will receive $500 each to pilot a new Maker Kit challenge.

The STEM-focused Maker Kits encourage students to research scenarios related to food production and build their own models to solve a challenge. A detailed outline on how to conduct the challenge – written by teachers, aligned to national learning standards and reviewed by industry experts – will be provided to pilot schools. Supplies to complete the challenge will also be provided.

Pilot locations will be selected by July 15. Materials will be distributed the first week of August, and pilots must be completed by September 15.

The Foundation is accepting recommendations of middle school science teachers and after school programs through July 8. Recommendations may be sent via email to Angela Mayfield, education director for the Foundation (educationdirector@fb.org).

This program is a special project of the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture. The resources are made possible through the generous support of title sponsor, DuPont Pioneer.