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THIS GRANT’S FOCUS: STEM Education, Cyber Education, K-12, Workforce Development
Deadline: June 1, 2020
“NIST is seeking to provide financial assistance to support the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE), including outreach efforts to the broader cybersecurity education community at the primary and secondary school levels; this program will include planning and managing the annual NICE K12 Cybersecurity Education Conference in the continental United States for up to the next five years.
A strategic objective of NICE is to inspire cybersecurity career awareness with students in elementary school, stimulate cybersecurity career exploration in middle school, and enable cybersecurity career preparedness in high school. NICE seeks to provide financial assistance to an organization engaged with stakeholders involved in helping youth pursue cybersecurity education and workforce opportunities through a year-round communication and engagement strategy that culminates in the annual NICE K12 Cybersecurity Education Conference.
Applicants should emphasize how they will reach a range of different stakeholders including specific details of the stakeholder communities they would intend to include. In addition, applicants should discuss how the outreach strategy will work across different geographic regions and how they will attract underrepresented populations such as women and minorities. The process should include tactics for bringing diverse stakeholders within regional and local communities together in a national K12 cybersecurity education community…”
Funder: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Eligibility: “Eligibility for the program listed in this NOFO is open to all non-Federal entities. Eligible applicants include accredited institutions of higher education; non-profit organizations; for-profit organizations incorporated in the United States; state, local, territorial, and Indian tribal governments; foreign public entities; and foreign organizations… Although Federal entities are not eligible to receive funding under this NOFO, they may participate as unfunded collaborators.”
Amount: Up to $750,000 ($150,000 per year for up to five years)
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