STEM Grant Opportunities for Community Colleges
The Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program focuses on the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation’s economy. The program involves partnerships between academic institutions and industry to promote improvement in the education of science and engineering technicians at the undergraduate and secondary school levels. The ATE program supports curriculum development; professional development of college faculty and secondary school teachers; career pathways to two-year colleges from secondary schools and from two-year colleges to four-year institutions; and other activities. The program invites research proposals that advance the knowledge base related to technician education. The ATE Program Solicitation is available here. Grant Submission Deadline: October 2, 2025.
Recent Community College Daily Articles about ATE
- Wildfires inspire students’ STEM innovations (6/12/2025)
- Snapshots: The 2025 CCIC poster showcase (6/12/2025)
- NSF funding critical in preparing students for a changing workforce (06/03/2025)
- Gutting NSF will undermine community college pathways to work (06/02/2025)
- Call to action: Support the NSF (5/1/2025)
- 12 student teams named CCIC finalists (4/29/2025)
- Different approaches to CCIC mentoring (3/9/2025)
- How one college became a CCIC finalist twice (2/3/2025)
- Seeking student innovators (1/22/2025)
- Moving STEM ideas forward (12/9/2024)
- Providing key connections (12/8/2024)
- Tapping low-cost VR to boost student learning (11/04/24)
- ICYMI: Coverage of ATE 2024 (10/30/2024)
- ATE students’ experiences and advice (10/29/2024)
- Snapshots: Photos from 2024 ATE conference (10/28/2024)
- Emerging opportunities in the airways (10/27/2024)
- Snapshots: ATE 2024 (10/28/2024)
- Working partners’ top 10 tips for connecting with industry (10/26/2024)
- ATE on AI (10/24/2024)
- A tool to gauge ‘needed math’ (10/24/2024)
- Creative partnerships built through ATE (10/18/2024)
- AACC’s new Future Leaders Fellows Program (02/26/2024)
- Snapshots: A look back at CCIC 2023 (02/21/2024)
- CCIC can open new paths, opportunities for students (02/12/2024)
- ‘They can do big things’ (02/5/2024)
- Whoop, whoop! Rallying teams to compete in CCIC (01/24/2024)
- A call to community college student innovators (1/22/2024)
Community College Journal
- Oct/Nov 2024 digital issue, “Creative partnerships built through ATE”
- Oct/Nov 2023 digital issue, “ATE principal investigators propose robust collaborations”
Other Resources
ATE Central is a free online portal and collection of materials and services that highlight the work of the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) projects and centers. These initiatives work with educators from two-year colleges to develop and implement ideas for improving the skills of technicians and the educators who teach them.
ATE Impacts Book and blog are intended to inform educators, college administrators, industry partners, students and parents about ATE’s important work preparing technicians for employment in advanced technology fields, as well as improving the skills of educators who teach aspiring and incumbent technicians. Key audiences for the project also include elected officials, community college presidents, business and industry leaders, and ATE principal investigators.
ATE Mentoring Initiatives – The National Science Foundation supports several mentoring initiatives designed to assist community colleges in developing and strengthening STEM programs, applying for NSF ATE funding, and implementing NSF ATE awards. For further information, please click here.