3.0.0 3471 2023-01-11T13:41:20Z 2023-01-11T13:41:20Z Senate S 2018-09-18 115 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2018-09-18T20:07:38Z Building Blocks of STEM Act 115 3397 HR 2018-02-14 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Related bill CRS 2018-09-18 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. IntroReferral 2018-09-18 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S001194 Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI] Brian Schatz D HI N Science, Technology, Communications Science, Technology, Communications 00 2018-09-18 Introduced in Senate 2019-09-06T10:38:59Z Building Blocks of STEM Act

This bill instructs the National Science Foundation (NSF), when awarding grants under the Discovery Research PreK-12 program, to consider age distribution in order to more equitably allocate funding for research studies with a focus on early childhood.

The bill directs the NSF to award competitive grants to institutions of higher education or nonprofit organizations to accelerate research efforts to increase understanding of the factors that contribute to the willingness or unwillingness of girls under the age of 11 to participate in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) activities.

The NSF shall also award competitive grants for such institutions and organizations to enter into partnerships with local educational agencies or states to develop and evaluate interventions in pre-K and elementary school classrooms that seek to increase participation by such girls in computer science activities.

The bill amends the National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 2002 to authorize the NSF to award grants under the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program for the recruitment and training of informatics and computer science teachers.

]]> Building Blocks of STEM Act Display Title Building Blocks of STEM Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to direct the National Science Foundation to support STEM education research focused on early childhood. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Building Blocks of STEM Act Introduced in Senate 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s3471is/xml/BILLS-115s3471is.xml 2018-09-18 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.