The REVISE Center is excited to host the 2026 NSF AISL Awardee Meeting! Learn more!

 

REVISE Center

Welcome to informalscience.org, hosted by the REVISE Center. REVISE is an NSF-funded resource center. We share NSF updates pertaining to informal STEM education (ISE) as well as field-wide opportunities and resources focused on advancing ISE.

Please note, informalscience.org is undergoing ongoing updates with guidance from NSF. You may notice changes to our website and offerings in the coming months. Read the REVISE Center’s response to the Executive Orders.

View our resource library (repository)

Learn about NSF’s implementation of executive orders

Learn more about informal STEM education

 

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NSF Guidance on Lapse in Appropriations

With the lapse in annual appropriations for the Federal government, we wanted to share this guidance from NSF on implications for current AISL grantees:

  • AISL Grant Recipients may continue performance under their NSF awards during a lapse in appropriations, to the extent that funds are available, and the period of performance of the grant or cooperative agreement has not expired.

Please see here and elsewhere on the NSF.gov website for the most up-to-date official guidance and for further details.

Thank you,
REVISE Team

 

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New NSF Solicitation: NSF STEM K-12

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced a new funding opportunity: the NSF STEM K-12 program in the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) in the Directorate for STEM Education (EDU). The program supports fundamental, applied, and translational research that advances STEM teaching and learning and improves understanding of education across the human lifespan and a range of formal and informal settings.

Read the full solicitation (NSF 25-545) for program and proposal submission guidelines. You may also send 1-page concept papers to stemk12@nsf.gov

NSF recently hosted a webinar focused on the new STEM K-12 solicitation. Watch the recorded webinar.

Webinar passcode: KK..xiT7

View the webinar slides

 

 

 

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REVISE Center Core Functions:

  • Cultivate community and collaboration to enhance innovation in ISE

  • Deepen links between research and practice to improve efficiency and raise the visibility of ISE

  • Strengthen networks and building capacity for ISE professionals​

  • Curate and amplify evidence-based ISE practices and products to be accessible to all

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Share Your NSF Project Impact Stories

The National Science Foundation’s Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) and NSF-funded EDU resource centers, including AAAS-IUSE, CADRE, ECR Hub, HSI UNIDOS Center, IGE Hub, INCLUDES Hub, STELAR, and REVISE are working together to leverage and share the impact of your NSF EDU-funded work. It is critical to demonstrate how valuable and meaningful these programs are to communities, and we can’t do that without you. Please take a moment to complete the survey! This survey is open to completed and ongoing NSF-funded EDU projects. Share your impact story!

 

 

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