Cowles Montessori Elemntary School students expirement with STEM Scale-Up programs

Behind the Curtain: Scale-Up in Iowa STEM

Professionals, the saying goes, make the difficult look easy. The people behind the scenes, bringing top-notch STEM to thousands of educators and 10 times more youth across Iowa, navigate many potholes in the process.

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Teacher Kacia Cain, recieves South Central STEM regions Education award for Inspired Teaching

Outstanding STEM Educators Recognized with Inaugural Award

Iowa’s STEM Advisory Council partnered this year with Kemin Industries to seek out and recognized six of the best STEM teachers in Iowa. It was a monumental task, given all of the superior educators across our state. The highly-competitive award brought in more than 150 applications from across the state.

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Governor Terry Branstad speaks at the annual STEM Day at the Capitol

STEM showcased at the Statehouse

With the goal of showing Iowa lawmakers how far STEM in Iowa has come while having quite a distance yet to go, the STEM Council alongside partners in STEM from across Iowa impressed legislators (and each other) with hands-on, interactive and student-focused learning innovations at STEM Day at the Capitol.

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