Siemens STEM Academy

The Siemens STEM Academy offers two one-of-a-kind, all-expenses-paid professional development opportunities for educators that provide unique experiences to middle and high school teachers across the country looking to bolster STEM learning and gain pragmatic skills that they can translate back into the classroom.

The Siemens STEM Institute selects 50 middle and high school educators to attend an all-expenses-paid week at Discovery's world headquarters outside of Washington, D.C. Fellows will learn about hands-on STEM integration in the classroom, take field trips to leading institutions to observe real-world STEM applications, and network and engage with STEM leaders and peers.

Siemens Teachers as Researchers (STARs) gives middle and high school STEM educators the opportunity to spend two weeks, all-expenses-paid, engaging with top scientists and researchers on short-term mentored research projects at one of the U.S. Department of Energy's national laboratories. Twenty educators will be sent to Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, while another twenty will be sent to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington.