NASA Announces 2008 Competitive Grant Programs

WASHINGTON, July 18 NASA-edu-grant-prgm WASHINGTON, July 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Office of Education at headquarters in Washington has announced three new extramural funding opportunities that could result in the award of grants or cooperative agreements. One of the three funding opportunities is the K-12 Competitive Grants Opportunity, a competitive education grant program targeting secondary school level teaching and learning, with grants being awarded to U.S. public schools and non-profit organizations. The goal of the opportunity is to seek out and support new, innovative, and replicable approaches to improving science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) learning and instruction. This will leverage NASA's unique contributions to STEM fields. The second area is the Global Climate Change Education... [read full story]