The Chuck Lorre Family Foundation Announces The Young Sheldon STEM Initiative

The Chuck Lorre Family Foundation is brining a new STEM initiative to 19 Public Schools in Southern California and East Texas. Entitled the The Young Sheldon STEM Initiative, the initiative is a new grant program created to foster excitement for learning in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), specifically in support of our nation’s public schools, teachers and students.

With the help of Young Sheldon executive producers Steven Molaro and Jim Parsons, Warner Bros. Television Group and CBS, the two-year educational grants, which total more than $600,000.00, will be awarded to 19 select elementary, middle and high schools in Southern California, where Young Sheldon is primarily produced, and East Texas, where the show is set.

You can learn more about how exactly the grant will benefit the schools under the jump. What an amazing initiative! The kids in East Texas and Southern California are going to benefit greatly from it. Fingers crossed the foundation expands it to other states as the years go on.

Source: Warner Bros. TV

How it will benefit the schools:

In Texas, students and teachers at each school will attend annual customized educational trips to Space Center Houston, a leading science and space exploration learning center.

In California, students and teachers from each school will visit NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. Additionally, teachers in both states will have access to JPL and NASA instructional materials (www.jpl.nasa.gov).

Each school will receive a certificate and an individualized “Congratulations” video message from the Young Sheldon cast. Cast members will be supporting the STEM INIATIVE by spreading the word across their social media channels. To view or embed the video, click here. To download the video, click here.

Items identified by the teachers to be funded include robotics kits, computers, iPads, Vernier probeware, lab tables, 3-D printers, LEGO Mindstorm educational kits, general lab equipment, curriculum development and teacher training.

Each school can apply for limited supplemental grants at the end of each year to fund school science and robotics competitions.

The initiative will launch to coincide with the beginning of the 2018–19 academic school year.

More than 22,000 students total attend the 19 schools, seven of which are Title I schools. Of the more than 22,000 students, 22% qualify for free and reduced lunches.