FY 2010 NASA K-12 Cooperative Agreements Notice (CAN)

The summary for the FY 2010 NASA K-12 Cooperative Agreements Notice (CAN) Federal Grant is detailed below. It contains information such as the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number, who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, important deadlines, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed in the Grant Announcement Contact section. If these sections are incomplete, please visit the website of the government agency that is offering this grant.


	Federal Grant Title:	FY 2010 NASA K-12 Cooperative Agreements Notice (CAN)
	CFDA Number:	00.000
	CFDA Description:	Not Elsewhere Classified
	Federal Agency Name:	NASA Headquarters
	Category of Funding Activity:	Science and Technology
	Category Explanation:	Information not provided
	Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
	Funding Opportunity Number:	NNG10ZNE008C
	Document Type:	Grants Notice
	Funding Instrument Type:	Cooperative Agreement Grant
	Posted Date:	May 11, 2010
	Creation Date:	May 11, 2010
	Original Closing Date for Applications:	Jul 19, 2010
	Current Closing Date for Applications:	Jul 19, 2010
	Archive Date:	Aug 18, 2010
	Expected Number of Awards:	Information not provided
	Estimated Total Program Funding:	Information not provided
	Federal Grant Award Ceiling:	Information not provided
	Federal Grant Award Floor:	Information not provided
	Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	No

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility: Proposals will be accepted from only from lead organizations including U.S. school districts, state-based education leadership, and not-for-profit education organizations that support secondary education. Community colleges, universities, industry, education-related companies, and other institutions may apply through partnership with the lead organization.
Grant Description: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Office of Education is releasing this NASA Cooperative Agreements Notice (CAN) for proposals. The K-12 CAN effort seeks proposals that incorporate innovative approaches for development and delivery of instructional materials and experiences that capture the interest of learners and actively involve them in relevant, NASA STEM-themed content applications. The instructional materials and experiences should support secondary level teaching and learning, with a particular emphasis on high school education. Each funded proposal is expected to leverage NASA's unique contributions in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to inspire young people to consider the importance of developing a possible interest in NASA-related careers, and/or to enhance students' academic experiences and/or to improve educators' abilities to engage and stimulate their students. - Develop, promote, or utilize new, innovative, and replicable approaches to improving STEM learning and instruction; especially related to gender differences and low performing schools; - Provide experiences and activities with measurable learning outcomes that are grounded in education research or utilize STEM supported evidence, approaches, techniques, and/or innovative STEM tools with measurable learning outcomes; - Build STEM linkages and connections focused on high school but linking back to elementary and middle schools and forward to community colleges and universities to strengthen the linkages between education, research and best practices; and - Provide training and experiences that improve secondary educators' abilities to engage their students in STEM learning and enhance teaching and learning in STEM content areas. Two-Step Proposal Process: Notice of Intent/Preliminary Proposals (NOI/PP) and Invited Full Proposals NASA Education will use a two-step process for reviewing and selecting proposals. Proposers will submit a short Notice of Intent and Preliminary Proposal (NOI/PP) that briefly describes the work to be performed. NASA content to be featured, audiences to be reached, need, innovative approaches to be employed, estimated costs, and summary of evidence supporting the methods, techniques, and tools to be used. NOI/PPs will be reviewed internally by the NASA Office of Education and the NASA Mission Directorates, and the authors of the most promising ideas will be asked to submit full proposals. The NOI/PPs will be due on June 01, 2010, with final invited full proposals due on July 19, 2010. Step l: Notice of Intent/Preliminary Proposal (Required) Organizations planning to submit a proposal in response to this CAN are required to submit a NOI/PP. NOI/PPs must be submitted through NSPIRES, by the AOR, Grants.gov does not have this feature. Step-1 Proposers can use either NSPIRES (http://nspires.nasaprs.com) or Grants.gov ( http://www.grants.gov/) for proposals submission. All proposers, team members, and agency officials must be registered before proposal submission with NSPIRES regardless of the electronic submission system used. NSPIRES remains the only system through which a Step-1 proposal can be continued as a Step-2 proposal. Step-2 proposals must be submitted through NSPIRES. The NOI/PP is limited to no more than five (5) pages and must be in 10 point font size. Step 2: Proposal Submission Proposers selected to develop and submit a full proposal will have approximately one month after formal notification to complete the full proposal package and submit. All information needed to respond to this solicitation is contained in this CAN and in the companion document entitled Guidebook for Proposers Responding to a NASA Research Announcement January 2010 Edition (hereafter referred to as the NASA Guidebook for Proposers). This document is located at: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/procurement/nraguidebook.
Link to Full Grant Announcement: http://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?method=init&solid={ab5142f2-cd5b-4f20-3890-91f7749a2625}&path=open
Grant Announcement Contact: Dr. Antoinette C. Wells National Project Manager NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Technical and education questions about outcomes sought or programs referenced in this CAN may be dire [Antoinette.C.Wells@nasa.gov]
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