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. Another goal is articulation between two-year and four-year programs for K-12 prospective STEM teachers that focus on technological education. The program invites research proposals that advance the knowledge base related to technician education. The 2024 ATE Program Solicitation is available here. Grant Submission Deadline: October 3, 2024.
Webinars
Moving Up! How-to Tips for Success with YOUR Next ATE Project Proposal
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
2:00 – 3:00 p.m. EST
Has your college been an ATE grantee? Did you have a New-to-ATE grant? Keep the momentum going! Take advantage of what ATE funding can do for your college’s technician education programs and students by “Moving Up” with additional ATE funding. A checklist will be provided along with tips for what will make your proposal more competitive, how requirements and reviewer expectations change when you take the next step, and where you can get help to make your proposal more viable. This session offers strategies, insider tips, and mistakes to avoid in seeking your next ATE grant…and gets you started!
To view the recording, click here.
To download the PPT, click here.
To download the checklist handout, click here.
Recent Community College Daily Articles about ATE
- 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)
- New beginnings through MentorLinks (12/11/2023)
- ATE-related apprenticeships pay off for students, employers (11/14/2023)
- DataPoints: Apprenticeships in ATE (11/14/2023)
- 2023 ATE Conference coverage (11/6/2023)
- Snapshots: 2023 ATE Conference (11/2/2023)
- Reflecting on 30 years of ATE (10/26/2023)
- ATE principal investigators pitch robust collaborations (10/17/2023)
- Guidance on strong ATE grant pitches (9/18/2023)
- Next cohort of colleges selected for MentorLinks (8/27/2023)
- Practical ideas for real-world challenges (6/15/2023)
- 2023 MentorLinks series (5/3/2023)
- 12 teams advance to ‘Innovation Challenge’ finals (4/26/2023)
- Leveraging MentorLinks to develop new STEM programs (11/22/2022)
- A more intentional approach to equity in STEM (11/8/2022)
- New ‘talent hub’ focuses on semiconductor, nanotech (11/2/2022)
- Opportunity, support go a long way for STEM students (11/1/2022)
- ‘Carpe diem’ for community colleges on semiconductor workforce development front (11/1/2022)
- Snapshots: ATE 2022 (10/31/2022)
- Community college: a place for students of all backgrounds and experiences (10/28/2022)
- Look deeper for student potential (10/27/2022)
- Presidents’ forum explains benefits of ATE grants (10/20/2022)
- DataPoints: ATE in action (9/19/2022)
- Mentor-Connect now open to all STEM faculty (8/16/2022)
- ATE centers show off their stuff at Mall of America (8/15/2022)
- Final pitches and the CCIC winners (6/16/2022)
- 12 college teams named CCIC finalists (4/28/2022)
- MNT-EC Principal Investigator Is a Fan of the Community College Innovation Challenge (2/9/2022)
- CCIC opens opportunities for participants (2/1/2022)
- Thumbs up: Mentors recommend CCIC to colleagues (2/1/2022)
Community College Daily Articles about ATE Archive
Community College Journal
- Oct/Nov 2023 digital issue, “ATE principal investigators propose robust collaborations”
- Oct/Nov 2022 digital issue, “Finding their spark”
- Oct/Nov 2021 digital issue, “Amplifying ATE”
- Oct/Nov 2020 digital issue
- Oct/Nov 2019 digital issue
- Oct/Nov 2018 digital issue
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.
EvaluATE is the evaluation resource center for the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education program, providing webinars, resource materials, workshops, and opportunities for ATE community members to engage around issues related to evaluation.
Mentor-Connect is a leadership development and outreach initiative for the National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education Program (ATE).