These strategically selected programs are all designed to bring unique and meaningful STEM learning opportunities to your classroom.The educator application window is open for the 2025-26 school year. 

Applications must be submitted to IowaGrants by 4:59 p.m. on

March 3, 2025. 

Learn more about each specific program and start your application today on our website at https://educate.iowa.gov/iowa-stem/stem-scale!

All About Balance allows children in grades PK-3 to become more curious and engaged as they actively explore the role of balance within the world of objects and with their own bodies.

All About Balance Fact Sheet:

https://educate.iowa.gov/media/10819/download?inline

Barobo C-STEM Afterschool and Summer Robotics and Robotics-Math Programs integrates coding and robotics into PK-12 mathematics education, using both virtual and hardware robots in a standards-aligned curriculum to enhance engagement and boost achievement.

Barobo C-STEM Afterschool and Summer Robotics and Robotics-Math Programs Face Sheet:

https://educate.iowa.gov/media/10831/download?inline

CodeJoy Presents: Micro:bit in the Wild. This program uses micro:bit to teach educators about Environmental Literacy through hands-on activities with computer science.

CodeJoy Presents: Micro:bit in the Wild Face Sheet:

https://educate.iowa.gov/media/10830/download?inline

CodeXcursion: Teach Python Coding with CodeX provides opportunities for students to start with Python basics and progress to exciting projects like creating games and simulations.

CodeXcursion: Teach Python Coding with CodeX Face Sheet:

https://educate.iowa.gov/media/10822/download?inline

Drone Designers: Exploring STEAM Careers introduces learners to the world of drones with a STEAMtastic fusion of arts and coding. From using the engineering design process to costume a drone to programming a unique drone "dance" routine, learners mimic and explore real life careers in the arts and entertainment industries.

Drone Designers: Exploring STEAM Careers Face Sheet:

https://educate.iowa.gov/media/10832/download?inline

Getting Started with Elementary OpenSciEd Curriculum reimagines the experience of science education to ensure that all students, regardless of their previous exposure to science, can excel in and outside of the classroom.

Getting Started with Elementary OpenSciEd Curriculum Face Sheet:

https://educate.iowa.gov/media/10820/download?inline

Grow, Create, Innovate: The STEAM-Powered Art allows students to engage in standards-aligned activities, such as the Reaction Game, which explores physics and chemistry through interactive play, and the Operation Game, which combines logic with mechanical design while DNA Modeling merges biology with creative visualization. Students can also build an Automata, which integrates engineering with artistic design.

Grow, Create, Innovate: The STEAM-Powered Art Face Sheet:

https://educate.iowa.gov/media/10833/download?inline

MathNation.com offers comprehensive resources for middle and high school mathematics using interactive videos, practice tools and personalized learning paths to engage students in deep mathematical understanding.

MathNation.com Face Sheet:

https://educate.iowa.gov/media/10823/download?inline

Overcoming Barriers to STEM Engagement: A Cross-Curricular Structural and Wind Energy Project Using Sketching as the First Step provides a hands-on project with wind energy technology that builds engagement with STEM. This project includes design of a scale tower to support a wind turbine with load and deflection testing.

Overcoming Barriers to STEM Engagement: A Cross-Curricular Structural and Wind Energy Project Using Sketching as the First Step Face Sheet:

https://educate.iowa.gov/media/10818/download?inline

Plant the Moon Challenge is a global science experiment, learning experience, and inspirational project-based-learning challenge. Students compete to see who can grow the best crops using lunar and Martian regolith stimulant.

Plant the Moon Challenge Face Sheet:

https://educate.iowa.gov/media/10829/download?inline

Positive Physics, Chemistry, Physical Science, Biology, Environmental Science & Engineering provides an engaging, online lesson and problem bank for middle and high school science. The site was built by teachers in diverse classrooms and designed to be accessible to students on any level from middle school to advanced placement (AP)

Positive Physics, Chemistry, Physical Science, Biology, Environmental Science & Engineering Face Sheet:

https://educate.iowa.gov/media/10828/download?inline

Spintronics allows students to learn electronics through hands-on puzzles instead of complex mathematics. Instead of imagining invisible electrons running through wires, the students can see the chains moving through the sprockets.

Spintronics Face Sheet:

https://educate.iowa.gov/media/10821/download?inline

STEAM Innovators K-8: Pathways for Future Leaders is designed to make STEM concepts engaging by integrating the arts and blending creativity with science, technology, engineering and mathematics to foster innovation, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

STEAM Innovators K-8: Pathways for Future Leaders Face Sheet:

https://educate.iowa.gov/media/10834/download?inline

Sign Up For Your IowaGrants.gov Account Now!

Applications for the Scale-Up programs are housed on IowaGrants.gov. This is different than previous years. If applicants don't already have an account on IowaGrants.gov, they must sign up for an account. 

Signing up for an account can take 72 hours to be approved and

activated. So please sign up for an account sooner rather than later.

Instruction on how to Sign up for IowaGrants.gov can be found HERE.