The project was designed to help advance and growth existing programming and create new programming under the SMART Academy Center of Excellence offerings. These programs included the Women in Science, Energy and the Environment, High Altitude Research Platform, 100 Black Men Project Success, Best Engineering Academy, M Agnes Jones Elementary, Marietta Center for Advance Academics, Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, 100 Robotics Scholars, AARMS STEM Initiative, USGBC Healthy and High Performing Schools Initiative and My Brothers Keeper, among others