STEM+

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SUNY STEM+ Academy Grant Summary and Application

by CyberLearning
national non-profit leader in K-12 STEM+ Education, and SUNY (State University of New York), the largest Univrsity in the U.S.

See /k-12/academies/ for details about the STEM+ Academy by the acclaimed State University of New York (SUNY), We’s Academy partner

The STEM+ Academy helps students build the skills they need to succeed in college and the highly competitive 21st-century workforce. We’s unique high-quality, cost-effective total solution grant program provides disadvantaged school districts an opportunity to enhance the STEM+ skills of their students. To date, We have provided STEM+ grants exceeding $107 million to more than 260 school districts in 40 states, state of NJ and Puerto Rico.

Grant Eligibility: Any school district with 35% or more students eligible for free/reduced price lunch

Deadline: Grants are awarded on an ongoing basis, first come, first served.

Grant Type/Cost : We donate all the courses (including Pearson SuccessMaker and GradPoint; Skillsoft IT, Business, Desktop, Personal & Professional Development) worth tens of thousands of dollars, and provides funds for Total Solution services to the school districts. Our grant pays most or all of the cost, depending on your F/R lunch rate.

Performance Outcomes: On average, students advance one grade level in a subject like math or reading using We’s Total Solution Learning System in 20-30 learning hours.

Academies (16 total):

K-5 (2 Academies): Math, ELA (Reading)
6-8: (3 Academies) Math, ELA, Digital Literacy
9-12: (8 Academies) Math, ELA, Science, Social Studies, SAT/ACT, IT, Business, Management
Vocational, Career Tech, Adult Ed (3 Academies): IT, Business, Management

  • IT includes 100 IT certifications in Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, A+, Net+, Security+, Web Design and Internet Security
  • Management includes Project Management certifications such as PMP® Exam Prep

Courses: All courses are web-based.The K-8 Math and ELA (Pearson SuccessMaker) and 9-12 Math, ELA, Science and Social Studies (Pearson GradPoint) are ranked at the top by the U.S. Department of Education. The 2,500 Skillsoft courses are the best elearning courses; the Certification courses come with Live Instant Mentoring.

Visit www.cyberlearning.org/catalog to see a list of all 3,000 courses grouped into several course packages offered.

Standards: All courses meet your state standards of all 50 states as well as the common core curriculum standards

Total Solution Services provided by We and SUNY

PSLMMTT services:

  1. Personalized Learning: Customized learning for each student
  2. Stipend/Bonus for the Academy Director and Teachers
  3. Learning Management System (LMS): Tracking of student activities, student progress
    and real time reports (for school superintendent, school board etc.)
  4. Motivational Program: Student rewards (Olympic boards in classrooms, iPods, gift certificates, etc.), parent academy in IT and business, teacher academy for professional development
  5. Mentoring Program: Mentoring for students
  6. Teacher Training
  7. Tech Support & 24/7 Help Line

Guarantee: Program outcomes include supported assessment and progress tracking.

For a description of the course academies, please review our course catalog at www.cyberlearning.org/catalog.

 

How To Apply

CyberLearning reviews grant and partnership inquiries on a rolling basis. School districts, administrators, and prospective sponsors should email info@cyberlearning.org with a brief description of the school or district, enrollment and demographic information (particularly free/reduced-lunch eligibility where relevant), and the specific program being considered. A program director will follow up with eligibility details and next steps.

Typical STEM+ Grant Engagement

A STEM+ Grant engagement usually starts with a scoping conversation between CyberLearning and district leadership. The conversation covers target schools and grade bands, existing technology infrastructure, teacher professional-development capacity, current Title I and Title IV funding posture, and the district’s two- to three-year academic goals. From there, CyberLearning proposes a program shape — curriculum tracks, academy components, teacher training, mentoring and motivation, and the administrator reporting package — that fits the district’s capacity to run it.

Stacking With Federal and State Funds

STEM+ Grants are commonly stacked with Title I / Title IV Part A, E-Rate for eligible network and broadband services, and state CTE or digital-equity funds. Where districts have already committed local budget, the CyberLearning Matching Grants program can stretch the combined investment further. Our program director helps applicants map which sources combine cleanly without double-dipping concerns.

Curriculum Coverage

STEM+ deliberately expands the traditional STEM definition to include digital literacy, reading, social studies, and workforce-ready soft skills. That breadth matters because classroom outcomes in STEM disciplines do not exist in isolation; a student whose reading fluency is below grade level cannot access a grade-level math word problem regardless of math skill. Academy programming under the STEM+ framework addresses those upstream prerequisites as part of the same cohort.

Cybersecurity and Digital Literacy Integration

Modern STEM+ engagements increasingly include digital-literacy and cybersecurity curriculum as part of the standard package — K-8 online safety, middle-school digital-citizenship, and optional high-school pathways into CompTIA A+ / Network+ / Security+. Districts responding to a phishing or ransomware incident sometimes use the STEM+ Grant as the vehicle to stand up cybersecurity education quickly alongside the operational posture that MSP coverage adds.

Measurement and Reporting

Every STEM+ engagement is instrumented. Administrators see enrollment, activity, completion, and assessment data in near-real-time; district leadership receives packaged reports at a cadence that matches board meetings and federal-program reviews; and sponsoring partners (where applicable) receive a summary aligned to their own reporting schedule. The same underlying data feeds all of these audiences, so districts do not have to recompile numbers for each stakeholder.

Renewal Patterns

Most STEM+ engagements run year-over-year once the first cohort proves out. Renewals usually expand the program — from one pilot school to multiple buildings, from one grade band to several, or from core academic tracks to academic-plus-cybersecurity pathways — based on measured outcomes from the prior cycle. Renewal conversations are anchored in the year-end report, not a new sales pitch, so leadership can compare investment to outcome directly.

Related Programs

Grants overview · Full Professional Development Grant · Digital Literacy Grant · Adopt-A-School Grant · Teacher Training Grant · Matching Grants.

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