West Virginia Space Grant Consortium Awards STEM Education Grant to Fairmont State University

FAIRMONT, W.Va (WDTV) – Fairmont State University has received a grant from the NASA WV Space Grant Consortium to support STEM education at the university.

FSU’s Department of Natural Sciences has received the $5,000 grant from the Professional Development in STEM grant program.

The project, Re-Discovering CATS Cadre Experts, aims to invite 16 retired science teachers from the Coordinated and Thematic Science Program to present sessions at the West Virginia Science Teacher Association conference. Sessions in chemistry, physics, biology, earth and space science and elementary science will be presented to a new generation of West Virginia science teachers, organizers said.

The grant will pay for registration and boarding fees for the presenters at the conference.

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Story Original Post Date: June 18, 2024