President Obama Announces Plans for a New, National Corps to Recognize and Reward Leading Educators in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
July 17, 2012
Administration will also immediately dedicate $100 million to supporting STEM teachers
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, the Obama Administration will announce the President’s plan for the creation of a new, national Science, Technology, Engineering and [...]

Science fiction writer and Mars researcher David Levine shares 2012 Seattle Science Festival K-12 Design-a-Martian-Habitat contest entries.

If you plan to be at the NSTA Conference in Indianapolis, please join us for the Mars Education Challenge Award Ceremony with special guest, Bill Nye.
The reception will take place at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 29th in Ballroom 3 & 4 at the Marriott Downtown in Indianapolis.
At this reception, Bill Nye, executive director of The PLanetary Society, [...]

NOTE: Extension of deadline till 31 January 2012
This year’s Mars Education Challenge (2011-12) will be running for grades 7-12 lesson (plans). If you want to enter a lessonplan for grade 6, please contact us.
Please remember to add all your personal data to your entry: your name, address, email address, telephone number, grade the lesson is [...]

Guidelines
NOTE: Extension of deadline till 31 January 2012

The primary goal of the Mars Education Challenge is for science educators to come up with inventive ways to introduce Mars into curriculum support materials. So, we are keeping the guidelines intentionally broad. While there are limits to the over all size (above), remember that you do not [...]