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Print Edition StoriesWednesday, September 2, 2009
NSF awards $1.2M to CBIA to aid STEM education
By Mass High Tech staff
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The Connecticut Business & Industry Association has received a three-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to add to its education foundation. The foundation plans to use the grant in funding STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education programs aimed at freshmen and sophomores in high school, with particular emphasis on increasing minority representation in high school advanced-placement courses.
The National Science Foundation received 254 proposals and chose 35 award recipients, including CBIA. The grant will apply to such partners as Project Opening Doors (POD), CBIA’s National Math & Science AP Initiative, the Connecticut State Department of Education, the Connecticut Science Center, the College of Technology and Central Connecticut State University, in addition to participating companies including Pfizer Inc., United Technologies Corp., Northeast Utilities Incs. and General Electric.
Massachusetts schools participating in a nonprofit-funded math and science training program saw scores on advanced placement tests soar 39 percent, according to Mass Insight, a nonprofit education institute that administers the Massachusetts Math and Science Initiative (MMSI) program. Backed by $13.5 million from a national math and science coalition that includes ExxonMobil, the Gates Foundation and the Dell Foundation, the MMSI schools saw AP score growth 11 times greater than non-participants and saw an even greater improvement for minority and low-income students.
CBIA is a 10,000-member statewide organization that promotes business in Connecticut.
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