FORECAST

Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate

Pacific Regional Partnership Intermediary Agreement (PIA)

Dated: 17 March 2023

Responses to this Forecast are due no later than 17 April 2023, 1200 Noon MDT.

Pre-K-12 Outreach: Provide hands-on, immersive lab programs where students access industry-standard technologies and apply them in actual community service-learning projects. All activities are student centered, creating an environment where teachers become facilitators, navigating student learning in a multifaceted, team-based, real-world application - where students access high-end technologies developing the career skills and abilities needed to apply engineering design into community service-learning projects to grow the next generation of community leadership. Outreach also includes building STEM teaching capacity in DOE schools. Outreach includes training teachers from beginning to AP. Outreach provides hands-on workshops to engage Hawaii students K-12. Development and implementation of new iterations of existing STEM Efforts; Collaborate with regional partners to align efforts to enhance STEM outreach outcomes. An example of this would be working with an elementary, middle, and high school system to immerse the students in STEM experiences during their K-12 pathways and examining the impact on the student participants related to their self-efficacy in STEM. Parent involvement shall also be included in project development.

Early Childhood Education (ages 3-6)

Programs & Workshops

    STEM Project

 Elementary Projects (K-5)

  STEM Projects

       Computer Science Education Week

  Middle Projects (6-8)                                                                                                                  

  STEM Project

            Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Day

Introduce a Girl to Engineering

            Computer Science (CS) Education Week

HS Projects (9-12)

          STEM Project

             Computer Science Education Week

             HiSTAR (X students)

B. Workforce and Professional Development Programs

Computer Science (CS) Professional Development

            Summer Academy Program

            Civil Air Patrol Aerospace Memberships for Educators

C. Collaborative Initiatives

             Aloha Telescope Initiative

             DAF Outreach

  D. STEM Assets & Resources

  E. Conferences, workshops, training, tours, camps etc.

 Hawaii State STEM Conference

         AMOS                       

Energy Conference - Student Component

         AFRL Outreach Projects

Nonprofit

• Nonprofits non-higher education with 501(c)(3)