Learning Projects

The TIME Center funds qualified learning projects designed by educators to help increase manufacturing and engineering awareness for their students or to enhance their own or their team’s manufacturing and engineering technical knowledge and skills.

Secondary and post secondary faculty, staff members, and counselors are eligible to apply for funding.  Proposals may be submitted by individuals or small teams.  A team must include a member from math, science, technology education, engineering, or career and technology. Projects are funded up to $3,000 and must be completed during the current school year or during the summer. 

View detailed proposal application instructions or download a proposal application below.

► Download a Learning Project Proposal Application

Sample Learning Projects

• Complete a real world project or solve a real problem in society (project based learning) with an emphasis on manufacturing and/or engineering.
• Organize and provide a field trip for technical education and/or occupational teachers to visit model workplaces.
• Develop a cooperative project between technical education and/or occupational teachers from two different schools or post secondary institutions.
• Job shadow at a manufacturing/engineering workplace. (This could be more than one workplace with a stipend paid by TIME Center)
• Work at a manufacturing or engineering workplace for a week with a stipend paid by TIME Center.
• Collaborate with manufacturing or engineering personnel to develop curriculum, lessons plans, or other type of project for use in the classroom and to share.
• Provide an opportunity for secondary and post secondary faculty members to plan important activities or curricula together.

Summary of 2009 Learning Projects

See what teachers from manufacturing, engineering, technology education, and other STEM related areas accomplished  in 2009 as they completed their learning  projects.  Lesson plans and information can be made available.   Learn more.