Funding Opportunities
Explore our mini-grants, summer research experiences, workshops and unique partnerships for those with a passion to connect science & society
Secure a Funded Partnership with Us
We believe we have a responsibility to financially support and inspire science’s next generation. Check out our funding opportunities below.
Amplify & Broaden Graduate Student Mini-Grants
Our 2020-2021 mini-grant competition provides over $5000 in direct support to UCF graduate students to amplify their voices and broaden community connections in research or educational activities focused on social, educational or environmental inequalities; oppression; anti-racist practices and systems; and/or brutality.
Undergraduate Research in Belize
Through National Science Foundation support, we provide fully funded international research experiences in Belize and Orlando to a select group of students committed to public scholarship with geospatial technologies. With additional support, we also include University of Belize students in our summer fieldwork.
K-12 Teacher Funding for a Summer on the U.S. Pacific Coast
We provide K-12 in-service and pre-service teachers with a fully funded opportunity to engage in interdisciplinary team science with our NSF and Smithsonian drone and eelgrass mapping team from San Diego to Alaska in Summer 2021. And they then work with us with additional funding during the school year to implement these mapping ideas and data into their classroom.
K-12 Teacher Funding for a Summer in Belize
Through National Science Foundation funding, we provide K-12 in-service and pre-service teachers with a fully funded international research opportunity to engage in interdisciplinary team science with our NSF team in Hopkins Village, Belize. And they then work with us with additional funding during the school year to implement these mapping ideas and data into their classroom. Through additional funding, we also support Belize K-12 educators.