Exelon Announces 27 Green Lab Grant Winners for 2022, Plans to Advance STEM Education in Under-Resourced Communities - Seite 2

$3,532; Morton West/Berwyn Community Garden

National Society of Black Engineers – Chicago Professionals, Chicago
$49,950; Environmental Justice MythBusters program for high school students

The Kingdom Advancement Center Inc, Elgin
$37,788; Creation of R.I.S.E. (Research and Innovation for Scientific Excellence) Lab

Maryland
Carver Vocational Technical High School, Baltimore
$25,000; Carver High School-based waste reduction program

Fair Hill Environmental Foundation, Inc., Elkton
$8,000; Outdoor lab for grade schoolers to study the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

Girl Scouts of Central Maryland, Baltimore
$12,000; Conservation-focused robotics program for female high school students

The Community Ecology Institute, Columbia
$40,000; Green Keys Internship Program

Pennsylvania
Creative Tech Works Design Studio Inc., Philadelphia
$49,928; Agricultural Sustainability through STEM Education & the Internet of Things (ASSET)

Eddie’s House, Philadelphia
$38,000; Partnership with Swarthmore College to educate facility residents about future careers in the electric vehicle industry

Girls Inc. of Greater Philadelphia & Southern New Jersey, Philadelphia
$50,000; Dedicated STEM lab with a mobile STEM station for female high school students

Imhotep Institute Charter High School, Philadelphia
$40,000; Vertical hydroponics farm

John Bartram Association (doing business as Bartram's Garden), Philadelphia
$15,000; Youth STEM programming at Bartram’s Garden

Norristown Zoological Society (doing business as Elmwood Park Zoo), Norristown
$15,000; Ninth Grade Zoo STEM Careers Development Course

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia
$28,000; Continued work of the Women in Natural Sciences & the Urban Nature Lab

The City School, Philadelphia
$38,000; TCS Hydroponic STEM Lab

Widener University, Chester
$38,000; Mobile Green Labs (follow up to Next Generation Scientists Summer Camp)

Launched in 2021, Green Lab Grants is an annual program with a new set of awardees selected each year.

The Green Lab Grants program is one of several Exelon initiatives that support education and workforce development. The annual Exelon Foundation STEM Leadership Academy gives teen girls ages 16-19 from diverse and low-income communities the opportunity to learn from women working in STEM and other leaders; explore sustainability, energy efficiency, renewable energy, and climate change; and connect with like-minded peers. Through a $1 million per year scholarship program launched in 2021, Exelon Foundation STEM Leadership Academy alumnae can apply for scholarships to cover costs associated with college. Earlier this year, the Exelon Foundation committed $2.4 million in scholarships to 24 college freshmen selected for the company’s HBCU Corporate Scholars Program, launched in partnership with UNCF (United Negro College Fund), to provide scholarship assistance, internship experiences and early-career readiness training to students attending historically Black colleges and universities.