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Share Your EDU Impact Stories!

As part of the U.S. National Science Foundation's 75th Anniversary in 2025, the Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) intends to highlight some of the most significant innovations that have resulted from EDU-funded projects over the years. Please help us by contributing items that our communications team can develop into "EDU impact stories." (This could be a project you have been involved in personally, or it could be a project that you believe has had a significant impact.) Answering the questions below will help our writers research the item and write a paragraph or two to describe it, and they might reach out to you for clarification or additional information.

You do not need to answer every question; just answer the ones that you can or the ones that seem most relevant to the project.
1.NSF Award Number
2.Name of EDU-funded project/innovation
3.Name of EDU program that funded the project
4.Division that funded the project
5.Name(s) of principal investigators and name(s) of institution(s)
6.In a few sentences, how would you describe the overall impact of this project/innovation to the general public?
7.What groups/people were reached (e.g., K-12 students, community college students, graduate students, K-12 teachers, college/university faculty, undergraduate students, remote learners, etc.)?
8.What are the real-world impacts of this project/innovation? About how many (students/teachers/learners/etc.) have been impacted? What new educational materials, new courses, new programs, new technology, new methods or practices, significant research, etc., resulted from the work? Describe the problem(s) solved or question(s) addressed. (Answer any of the above questions.)
9.If not a nationwide impact, did the project/innovation have a particular geographic impact – e.g., on learners/educators across one state or multiple states, in a rural area, in a city, etc.?
10.In what ways has the project/innovation contributed to the knowledge base in STEM education (through STEM education research), in STEM education or the workforce, increased retention or graduation in STEM, etc.?
11.Would the work that led to the impact have been possible without EDU funding?
12.Your name and preferred email address
13.Do you have any photos, videos, or other relevant media to share? If you do, a member of our communications team will email you a link to a folder where you can upload your media.