• There are abundant science grants available in education, particularly as technology continues to advance information in the sciences and as school districts seek to ready students for a 21st century workforce. Funding initiatives for school programs and educational organizations to include colleges and universities help students and their educators remain current in, and accessible to, advancements in science through program and research support.
  
  

Government Grants

• The federal government sponsors many science funding initiatives, such as the National Institute of Food and Agriculture's International Science and Education Grant to "support research, extension, and teaching activities that will enhance the capabilities of American colleges and universities to conduct international collaborative research." The National Science Foundation has over 100 educational funding possibilities from kindergarten through higher education for students and for their educators. One such program includes the Arctic Social Studies Program for K-12 for lessons and research on anthropology, archaeology, science and technology. The Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems is another government grant for students and their teachers at any level to conduct "quantitative analysis of human and natural system processes and complex interactions among human and natural systems at diverse scales."
  
  

Foundation Grants

• The Foundation Center (foundationcenter.org) is a good place to locate foundation grants, and there are many that fund science in education. The Foundation Center, a subscription-based site, contains a database with hundreds to thousands of funding possibilities, easily searchable. Fundsnet Services is a free online database for information about funding for medical research and general science education. Others providing educational grants include the SBC Ameritech Foundation, J.A. & Kathryn Albertson Foundation, Humana Foundation, Guernsey Foundation and the Optical Society of America Foundation.
  
  

Industry Grants

• Industries have a great interest in attracting and readying future qualified workers by advancing science education. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, for example, provides science education for elementary through high school students through research grants. Sun Microsystems has a two-year grant program for K-12 schools called Transition to Network Computing (sun.com/aboutsun).