About the Afterschool Alliance

The Afterschool Alliance is a nonprofit public awareness and advocacy organization working to ensure that all children and youth have access to quality afterschool programs.  More information is available at www.afterschoolalliance.org.

About BattelleEd.org

BattelleEd.org supports and leverages state-based STEM networks to promote education innovation. Networks serve as validation and demonstration sites for cutting-edge teaching and learning practices, scaling high-quality education tools for a nationwide impact.

About The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS)

The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) manages the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory. The organization is responsible for promoting and brokering research on Station for the benefit of humanity. www.iss-casis.org

About Communities In Schools

Communities In Schools surrounds students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.  Through a school-based site coordinator, Communities In Schools connects students and their families with critical community resources, tailored to local needs.  Working in nearly 3,000 schools, in the most challenged communities in 25 states and the District of Columbia, Communities In Schools serves more than 1.3 million young people and their families every year.  It has been shown through an independent evaluation to be the nation’s only dropout prevention organization proven to both increase graduation rates and reduce dropout rates.

About Innovation Our World
The mission of Innovate Our World is to find ways to bring together people across the skills and interests spectrum (e.g., arts and literature to science and technology) to work on challenging and complex problems. IOW wants to take this movement a step further by bringing together students from diverse interests (e.g., arts and science) to learn and work together so that years later we have a world where the working engineer understands and pays critical attention to the societal aspects of technology and, conversely, the writer becomes technologically aware and can communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences. 

About Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation

Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation is a non-profit organization devoted to educational and charitable activities designed to improve intellectual property rights and educate the public about the importance of the patent system. To learn more visit www.ipoef.org.

About the Milken Foundation

Three decades since Michael and Lowell Milken created the Milken Family Foundation, their mission of Leading Advances in Education and Medical Research continues to produce groundbreaking initiatives.  Innovations in education are significantly changing the landscape of teacher quality, student outcomes and comprehensive education reform.  Innovations in medical research are transforming the ways in which research is conducted and connected, thus improving the health and well-being of individuals and communities worldwide.  Learn more at mff.org   

About The National Academy Foundation

The National Academy Foundation (NAF) is an acclaimed network of career-themed academies that open doors for underserved high school students to viable careers. For 30 years, NAF has refined a proven model that provides young people access to industry-specific curricula, work-based learning experiences, and relationships with business professionals. NAF academies focus on one of five career themes: finance, hospitality & tourism, information technology, engineering, and health sciences. Employees of more than 2,500 companies volunteer in classrooms, act as mentors, engage NAF students in paid internships, and serve on local advisory boards. During the 2011-12 school year, 500 NAF academies serve 60,000 students across 39 states, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. NAF’s national graduation rate of 97% testifies to the effectiveness this effort.

About the National Consortium of Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology

The NCSSSMST was established in 1988 to provide a forum for schools to exchange information and program ideas and to evolve alliances between them. As of  June, 2010 there were  over 100 institutional members (secondary schools), representing more than 40,000 students and 1,600 educators. These are joined by nearly 100 affiliate members (colleges, universities, summer programs, foundations, and corporations) who share the goals of transforming mathematics, science, and technology education.

About Project Lead The Way

Project Lead The Way (PLTW) is the nation’s leading provider of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education curricula to middle and high schools across the United States. As a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, PLTW exists to prepare students for the global economy through its world-class curriculum, high quality professional development, and an engaged network of educators, students, universities and industry professionals. PLTW offers three programs of study: Gateway To Technology, a middle school program that introduces students to STEM subjects and provides them with a solid foundation for continued STEM education in high school; and Pathway To Engineering and Biomedical Sciences, PLTW’s high school programs, which give students hands-on, problem solving opportunities and allows them to apply lessons learned in math and science. All programs introduce students to a wide range of STEM-related careers in fields including engineering and medicine. PLTW's rigorous and comprehensive curricula has been collaboratively designed by PLTW teachers, university educators, engineering and biomedical professionals, and school administrators to promote critical thinking, creativity, innovation and real-world problem solving skills in students. Approximately 5,000 PLTW programs exist across the country in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. More than 400,000 students are currently taking PLTW courses. For more information, visit www.pltw.org.

About Real Time Leadership Solutions, Inc. (RTLS) works to increase educational access, expand business opportunities, and improve livelihoods, particularly for under-served communities.  RTLS, Inc. provides management, business development and international consulting services. Our key areas of focus are strategic planning, leadership development, international trade, and local/global connections.  We support enterprises that add value to communities, make a positive environmental impact, and strengthen the economy.  www.rtleads.com

About The Saylor Foundation

The Saylor Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. Our mission is to make quality education freely available to all. To this end, we employ experienced professors to build college-level and professional courses from the wealth of material available on the Web. Today, the Foundation's free education initiative at Saylor.org provides over 270 free online courses to anyone with an Internet connection.

About SEED

Schlumberger Excellence in Educational Development (SEED) is a non-profit initiative that brings science and technology programs to the communities in which Schlumberger operates. SEED uses four main approaches to implement this: Internet and technology grants, a multilingual science Web site, educational workshops, and learning tools. The program relies on employees, volunteers, and educators to leverage their technical expertise while encouraging students to look at global issues, such as water, health and safety, energy, and climate change.

About Technovation

Technovation engages girls in computer science and entrepreneurship through an annual app development contest. In our program, high school girls work in teams to build smartphone apps and write business plans with the support of female mentors and their teachers. The program culminates in a final pitch competition where the girls pitch to venture capitalists and compete for $10,000 in funding to launch their company and take their app to market. Learn more and get involved today: www.technovationchallenge.org.

About Udacity

Udacity believes university-level education can be both high quality and low cost. Using the economics of the Internet, they've connected some of the greatest teachers to hundreds of thousands of students in almost every country on Earth. Udacity was founded by three roboticists who believed much of the educational value of their university classes could be offered online for very low cost. A few weeks later, over 160,000 students in more than 190 countries enrolled in the first class, "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence." The class was twice profiled by the New York Times and also by other news media. Now they're a growing team of educators and engineers, on a mission to change the future of education.

About Waters Foundation - Systems Thinking in Schools

The mission of the Waters Foundation is to increase the capacity of educators to deliver student academic and lifetime benefits through the effective application of systems thinking concepts, habits and tools in classroom instruction and school improvement.

The Waters Foundation is a primary service provider for building teacher and administrator capacity to fully integrate systems thinking into classroom instruction and school and district leadership. Their work has supported over 500 schools to integrate systems thinking methodology in their classrooms, both nationally and internationally, in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Philippines and Singapore. www.watersfoundation.org