The Teach for the Future Fellowship  is designed to support teachers in incorporating accessible and effective hands-on learning techniques into their classrooms to improve student engagement, deepen learning, foster essential 21st century skills, and build student agency.

With an emphasis on embedding these tools into existing curriculum and aligning with academic standards, this program will address culturally responsive and sustaining practices, technical skills, and project design.

Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) provides K-12 teachers with research experiences and ongoing relationships with career scientists, enabling them to share the latest developments in STEM fields with students and inspire their students to learn more about science, math, and engineering and their related career paths. Application by teams of STEM teachers is also encouraged.

Program dates:  June 18 – July 30, 2025

The Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Program is a seven-week summer program for middle and high school STEM teachers. RETs conduct research with a host laboratory for the first six weeks of the program and prepare for the summer research symposium during the seventh week. For Summer 2025, the RET programs will be offered in-person only at Penn State Harrisburg in Middletown, PA. Teachers selected for the program will participate in ongoing research projects with university science or engineering faculty and work with CSATS science education faculty to develop a classroom research project based on their research experience.

The DC STEM Fair is the longest-running student competition in the District of Columbia. The Elementary DC STEM Exhibition is open to students in grades K-5 from DC public, public charter, parochial, private, and home schools. Both the Elementary Exhibition and Secondary Fair will be held at Paul Lawrence Dunbar Senior High School on April 5, 2025, bringing together students from all eight wards to showcase their ideas and innovations and is a fun experience for the entire family. To secure your spot, please complete the registration form by March 31st.

It’s National Paper Airplane Day! Celebrate by learning the basics of flight from the US Air Force. Learn about the forces that allow your airplane to fly with maximum performance. Whose airplane can fly fastest and furthest? Each student should have a sheet (or two!) of paper as we will be folding paper airplanes during the session.