STEM4Girls is a non-profit corporation operating exclusively for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes within the meaning of Section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or the corresponding section of any future Federal tax code. The purpose of STEM4Girls is to encourage the pursuit of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math – collectively termed STEM fields. STEM for Creativity aims to bridge the gap between students and the infrastructure they need to grow their ideas and have a positive global impact. By bringing enthusiastic students together to build a much-needed positive impact globally, STEM for Creativity is committed to solving ongoing problems in the world creatively. STEM4Girls aims to instill a love for STEM in girls across the globe wherever women are vastly under-represented in STEM fields. STEM4Girls encourages girls to establish active collaboration among the peer groups, improving their outlook towards STEM and to contribute to science. Additionally, STEM4Girls works to bring knowledge with fun, educational workshops and camps available to garner the interest of young minds to mold them throughout their lives. We place particular emphasis on the encouragement and involvement of girls and other underrepresented groups in STEM fields.
Funding Opportunity Title: STEM for Creativity (alternatively “STEM4Creativity”) 2024-2025 .
STEM4Girls is honored and excited to announce a grant opportunity for students interested in STEM projects; Science Technology, Engineering, and Math. In order to promote creativity in the STEM field, STEM4Girls will be assisting students with up to $250 to work on a unique STEM-based project that follows the guidelines listed below. These grants are available for students that identify as female, or with at least one student identifying as female within the team. Three categories including elementary, middle-school and high/secondary schools are eligible to participate. Each team can have 4-10 students with at least one female. The project proposals will be reviewed by the experts and 5 outstanding projects from each category will be funded for completing the proposed research. Students may also submit a report at the end of the challenge period to get more funding for their future projects. A potential grant of a maximum of $250 (depending on the impact of the project) will be given to the first-place entry selected from the outstanding proposals in each category. The selected projects will be given the opportunity to participate and to do presentations to the scientific community and students at the International Research Conference for Children (IRCC-2024).
Submission guidelines
a) Background: An overview of the scenario when led to the identification of a scientific question.
b) Hypothesis: Identify a hypothesis based on the background information. Hypothesis is an assumption or proposed explanation made on the basis of background information as a starting point for further investigation. Hypothesis can be a concept, prediction, or idea that you are planning to study through your research and experiments.
b) Specific Aims:Can have 2 or 3 specific aims to test your hypothesis. Each specific aim should be linked and be relevant to the overall project. Sub-aims can be included.
c) Significance:What is the hypothesis or problem that is going to be addressed? Why and how is testing the hypothesis/solving the important problem? Explain how a successful outcome has the potential to transform the current understanding of agricultural science. How does the proposal revolutionize the present scenario under investigation? What is the gap in the knowledge and how your study contributes to the advancement in the current knowledge.
d) Innovation:State clearly and concisely what makes your project unique and innovative?
e) Preliminary data: Include the preliminary data if available. The preliminary data must be from your own previous experiments.
f) Approach:Provide enough information so that reviewers can thoroughly understand your proposal. If your methodology is standard, what is novel and innovative in your approach? How does your system differ from traditional methods? Experimental replicates and statistical analysis are highly encouraged.
g) Strengths and weakness: Overall strength of the proposal with anticipated outcome needs to be highlighted. Point out the weakness of the study..
h) Alternate strategy: If the approach fails, what will you do to overcome the risk?
i) Timeline:Provide a timeline for the proposed research that does not overlap with the Study. A schematic representation will be appreciated.
j) Bibliography:Add proper citations and references if available.
5.* Did scientific writing involve language experts? Yes/no
We appreciate your interest. We have completed the competition for the year 2020.
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