Battelle Savannah River Alliance, LLC, (BSRA) the manager and operator of Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL), announced the availability of $125,000 for its 2024 K-12 Catalyst Grants for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education.

One-time grants in the amount of $2,500 or $5,000 are available to educators to advance classroom activities and programs relating to STEM. Applicants must be a certified K-12 teacher or school administrator in public, charter, or independent STEM schools within the Central Savannah River Area (CSRA). Applications/proposals are being accepted now through May 31, 2024, and grants will be awarded in August 2024.

The online application, Q&As and other information about the K-12 Catalyst Grants for STEM Education can be found at www.battellesra.org/catalyst.

Grant recipients will be selected by a diverse team of SRNL employees who will judge each proposal using a rubric scoring guide that includes the following measures:

• −  Clear Description of Proposed Curriculum or Activity

• −  Real-world Application

• −  Connection to STEM

• −  Purpose and Goals

• −  Budget Description

• −  Sharing of Lessons Learned

  BSRA awarded $125,000 in STEM educational grants last year to 29 teachers at schools in the Georgia counties of Burke, Columbia Lexington and Richmond, and in the South Carolina counties of Aiken, Barnwell, Edgefield and Orangeburg. The Battelle Foundation Fund at The Columbus Foundation provided funding for the grants, which impacted more than 6,200 students in the CSRA. To see an example of how a Catalyst Grant was used this past year, visit https://srns-corpcomm.sharefile.com/public/share/web-s4fcae897523e4155a18695483fabe304.

  In June 2021, Savannah River National Laboratory (www.srnl.gov) transitioned to management and operations under Battelle Savannah River Alliance, LLC (BSRA), a not-for-profit limited liability company (www.battellesra.org). The BSRA leadership includes Battelle Memorial Institute, Clemson University, University of South Carolina, South Carolina State University, University of Georgia, and Georgia Institute of Technology. Battelle Memorial Institute and the above five leading universities are joined in in partnership with Longenecker & Associates and TechSource Inc with a singular purpose of maintaining SRNL as a best-in-class national laboratory.