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DOE ACTS

The Department of Energy Academies Creating Teacher Scientists (DOE ACTS) program fully engages educators as valued members of the scientific community and helps them progress as leaders of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education.

This three-year program provides STEM educators (Grades 5-12) with sustained, intensive professional development (PD) that is experientially based and effectively utilizes the unmatched wealth of mentoring talent at the DOE National Laboratories. Through this program, educators will integrate the teaching of STEM disciplines with the practice of science, establish long-term relationships with their mentor scientists and teaching colleagues, and transfer their experiences in scientific research to the classroom.

Teachers are expected to commit to spending between 4 and 8 weeks at one of the National Laboratories for three consecutive summers.

Ames Laboratory
Argonne National Laboratory
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Sandia National Laboratories – New Mexico
Sandia National Laboratories – California
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility