The National Science Foundation(NSF) invites community college students to solve big problems and win prizes in the first-ever Community College Innovation Challenge 
(CCIC).
Two-year college students — working in groups of three to five — have until Jan. 15 to submit 90-second videos and essays that explain their science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) solutions to real-world problems in big data, sustainability, infrastructure security, broadening participation in STEM or improving STEM education.
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With an evangelist’s zeal, David R. Brown, a program director at the National Science Foundation (NSF), urges community college educators to 
apply by the Jan. 13 deadline for the agency’s Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) grants.
The elements of the Design and Development tier within the two tracks of the IUSE program fit well with community colleges’ implementation of promising practices for developing the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce, according to Brown. Funding in IUSE Engaged Student Learning may be up to $600,000 for Level I awards, and up to $2 million for Level II awards. In the Institution and Community Transformation track, awards are up to $3 million.
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