2024-25 STEM Grant Information
Sponsored by: Louisiana Transportation Research Center and Bentley Systems
Award(s): Grants awarded in the amount of $500
Application Acceptance: Application will open September 23, 2024
Application Deadline: Application will close on October 18, 2024
Eligibility: Full-time, classroom teacher
Content Area(s): STEM discipline: Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
Grade Level(s): K-12
State(s): Louisiana
Focus: STEM classroom activities and consumable materials for STEM lessons
Application Requirements: Complete application using link provided below (applications are open from 9/23/24 until 10/18/24). Upload an endorsement letter from a school administrator verifying employment and support of the grant applicant.
Grant Recipient Requirements: Certify that grant will be utilized to fund STEM aligned projects and materials needed. Submit a 500 word follow up article with photos describing your student success and how your project was integrated into your classroom.
Contact: Education Outreach
4104 Gourrier Ave.
Baton Rouge, LA 70808
Phone: 225.767.9141
Email: LTRCOutreach@la.gov
The application period is now closed.
AASHTO STEM Outreach Solutions
GOOGLE FORM: Please fill out the google form if you are interested in attending a future workshop.
All workshops are free of charge!Workshop LocationTransportation Training and Education Center
4099 Gourrier Ave.
Baton Rouge, LA 70808
ContactPlease email
LTRCOutreach@la.gov with any questions or to request more information.
Congratulations to the student team—Connor, Victoria, and Elizabeth—from STEM Magnet Academy of Pointe Coupee, led by teacher Lindsay Stagg. They are the first team from Louisiana to compete in the National TRAC™ Bridge Challenge. The TRAC™ (Transportation and Civil Engineering) program supplies teachers throughout the country with resources for use in their science, math, and social science classrooms. Through these federally funded AASHTO educational outreach programs, teachers are invited to LTRC every year for a two-day, hands on learning event conducted by National Board Certified teachers. During the two days, teachers become the students as they are challenged with interactive activities and equipped with hundreds of lesson plans, a trunk of free supplies, and hours of activities and software that will captivate their students. Schools who have participated in these workshops are then eligible to compete in the annual Bridge Challenge. Participating teams developed a truss bridge and submitted a project portfolio for evaluation; the six teams chosen for the final competition presented their projects and structurally tested their bridges against teams from other states.
TRAC and RIDES are programs used to introduce students in grades K-12 to the work world of transportation and civil engineering and inspire them to consider careers in those fields. They both include hands-on, activity based curriculum enhancement programs designed for use in science, math, and social science classes. Both programs are aligned to national standards. Through TRAC and RIDES, students utilize critical thinking skills to solve real world problems, thereby preparing them for the workforce and strengthening the future scientific and math workforce pool. This workshop offers teachers hands on training on how to incorporate the program and materials to use in their classrooms. There is no registration or attendance fee to this federally funded workshop. The only cost to schools is the teacher’s time away from the classroom and a substitute teacher.
The TRAC (TRAnsportation and Civil Engineering) program is geared for use in high schools and 7th-8th grade (7th-12th). The TRAC program modules are trunk-like containers with 6-8 activities in each module. With the TRAC workshop we give every school one set of modules to use in the classroom. The TRAC modules consist of the following: bridge builder, construction, environmental, maglev, motion, and safety.
RIDES (Roadways Into Developing Elementary Students) is intended for grades K-8. Each attendee will receive a manual that consists of over 100 activities and each school will leave with one “trunk” of materials to use in their classroom.
Click below to read a recent article about TRAC and RIDES from Technology Today, LTRC's quarterly newsletter.
