Collaborating Organizations
Spark! PK-12 Engineering Education Outreach
Designed to inspire STEM literacy, Spark! offers engineering education programming to PK-12 students and families and professional development opportunities to educators in the science, technology, engineering and mat...
Texas A & M University College of Medicine – Rural Medici...
In 2019, Texas A&M College of Medicine embarked on an initiative to focus on rural medicine disparities given our history as a Land Grant University and our Medical School Charter for Rural Medicine.
The Colleg...
Texas A&M’s Southwest Rural Health Research Center Secure...
The Southwest Rural Health Research Center at the Texas A&M University School of Public Health has been awarded a four-year, $2.8 million cooperative agreement by the Health Resources and Services Administration’s...
Students will get their hands dirty in real-world STEM re...
UTSA students in microbiology courses will soon have the opportunity to sift through soil samples in pursuit of new antibiotics. Researchers developing this learning experience aim to boost motivation and engagement i...
UTSA to lead multimillion-dollar project to advance inter...
OCTOBER 2, 2024 — UTSA was selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) to lead a multimillion-dollar project that will stimulate nuclear energy research at UTSA, leverage novel expe...
Regents Approve Texas A&M Space Institute
The $200 million facility will be built at the Johnson Space Center in Houston to help ensure Texas remains a leader in space exploration.
She was one of the only Black women in her engineering pr...
“It’s always been a source of community, perseverance, and learning how to be determined.” CNN Hero Yamilée Toussaint
DHEDF Announces Gift from the Dee Howard Memorabilia Coll...
Durrell U. “Dee” Howard (26 May 1920 – 12 February 2009) was a respected inventor and legendary in the aviation industry for his many creative accomplishments. Dee had over forty US and foreign patents issued in his n...
Participating Schools
Stapleton receives certification for their outdoor classroom
STAPLETON, Ala. (WALA) - Stapleton School in a rural part of Baldwin County received certification Wednesday for its outdoor classroom from the Alabama Wildlife Federation.
Stapleton School earns Alabama Outdoor Classroom, Nationa...
Stapleton School received certification as an official Outdoor Classroom School through the Alabama Wildlife Federation (AWF) Alabama Outdoor Classroom Program on Wednesday, May 15, becoming the fifth school in the Ba...
North Pole: Terri Mynatt
Says Terri Mynatt (BSEd ’89), "Being an educator to the Athabascan people of Alaska is the most rewarding experience she could have found. Now, she’s on a quest to find other graduates of the PSU College of Education ...
Frankford Elementary fifth graders participate in virtual...
Students in Rachel Robb’s fifth grade class got to do a deep dive into the mechanics of flying and building drones through a virtual presentation through the Rural STEM Initiative from the Dee Howard International Edu...
DHEDF Launches National Rural STEM Initiative
In May 2022 DHEDF announced the launch of a National STEM Initiative focused on Rural Schools. In September 2022, we launched the Initiative for the 2022/2023 academic year in twelve schools in nine states, over time ...