Operations for After-School STEM Mentorship in Indiana

GrantID: 75884

Grant Funding Amount Low: $50,000

Deadline: Ongoing

Grant Amount High: $600,000

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Those working in Youth/Out-of-School Youth and located in Indiana may meet the eligibility criteria for this grant. To browse other funding opportunities suited to your focus areas, visit The Grant Portal and try the Search Grant tool.

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Indiana After-School STEM Operations

Indiana maintains 1,892 public schools but only 312 registered after-school STEM sites as of the 2023 Department of Education inventory. This leaves 68 percent of middle-school students without structured STEM programming outside regular hours. Operational constraints include limited transportation contracts after 4 p.m. and reliance on volunteer instructors whose turnover reached 41 percent in the prior academic year.

Districts in the manufacturing-heavy counties of northeast Indiana report particular difficulty recruiting instructors with engineering credentials, while southern Indiana districts cite laboratory space shortages. State data show STEM achievement gaps between free-and-reduced-lunch students and peers widening by 0.3 standard deviations in districts without after-school options.

The grant requires operational plans that specify instructor recruitment pipelines, transportation budgets, and equipment maintenance schedules. Metrics must track weekly attendance, pre-post STEM attitude surveys, and documented industry mentor contact hours.

Indiana's operational environment differs from Ohio and Michigan due to stricter state limits on the use of school facilities after 6 p.m. without separate liability insurance riders.

Indiana Operational Realities

Applications must reference the Indiana Afterschool Network standards and include a letter from the local school corporation confirming facility access agreements through the full grant period.

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