Initiatives

STEM professionals (more than 30% of whom are AAAS members) assist teachers for the school year in K-12 classrooms in seven school districts in the Washington DC Metro area.

The AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books celebrates outstanding science writing and illustration for children and young adults. The prize is meant to encourage the writing and publishing of high-quality science books for all age groups.

Advancing Research & Innovation in the STEM Education of Preservice Teachers in High-Need School Districts (ARISE) seeks to provide resources, tools, and a community to foster research and evidence-based innovation in STEM preservice teacher education.

This project aims to increase the success of LGBTQ persons in STEMM through a data infrastructure that allows for the ethical and law-attentive collection and use of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data in post-secondary education.

The Diversity and the Law project provides institutions of higher education the tools needed to achieve their diversity, equity, and inclusion goals through policies, practices, and programs that are legally sustainable.

In partnership with NSF Division of Human Resource Development (HRD), within the EHR Directorate, this annual conference is aimed at college and university undergraduate and graduate students who participate in programs funded by the NSF HRD unit.

A national effort to discover and develop talent among undergraduate and graduate students with disabilities who demonstrated a talent and interest in pursuing a STEM career.

A summer science program for elementary-school students offered in community-based organizations, including libraries and Boys & Girls Clubs in all neighborhoods in the Washington DC Metro area.

With NSF support, this project aims to synthesize and disseminate research about STEM teaching and learning and increase the use of evidence-based strategies that will lead to a diverse STEM workforce and STEM-literate public.

In partnership with NSF, provides students with an opportunity to implement technology prototypes and learn more about invention and innovation in various workshops.

In partnership with NSF, a collective space for expanding the reach of the NSF INCLUDES community and for sharing current and historical knowledge on broadening participation in STEM.

A national awards program that annually recognizes and rewards five U.S.-based women researchers at the beginning of their scientific careers.

The Marion Milligan Mason Fund provides four grants of $55,000 to women researchers engaged in the chemical sciences.

The NSF Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship provides funding to institutions of higher education to recruit and prepare STEM majors and professionals to become K-12 teachers. AAAS' support of Noyce fosters research and innovation for teacher preparation.

Science in the Classroom aims to help educators, undergraduates, and advanced high school students understand the research contained in primary scientific literature by producing annotations and providing accompanying teaching materials.

AAAS, in consultation with STEMM professional societies and subject matter experts, developed a process and tools for STEMM professional societies to assess their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

The AAAS Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (S-STEM) Initiative supports NSF S-STEM PIs via community engagement to aid their project efforts to support highly-talented, low-income undergraduate and graduate STEM students.

The Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) Resource & Evaluation Center (REC) aims to increase the number of talented low-income students who obtain degrees in STEM and enter the STEM workforce.

A comprehensive initiative that implements a proven self-assessment process to effect sustainable change with regard to diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEMM at US institutions of higher education.

The STEMM Opportunity Alliance (SOA) aims to build a STEMM ecosystem rooted in equity, inclusion, and scientific excellence to power progress, innovation and prosperity for all by 2050.