Welcome To The Toyota TAPESTRY Program Wiki

For the past 20 years, Toyota and NSTA have promoted science education in classrooms through the Toyota TAPESTRY Grants for Science Teachers Program, providing more than $9.2 million in grants and touching more than 1,147 teams of teachers and tens of thousands of students nationwide. As the nation's largest science teacher grant program of its kind, Toyota TAPESTRY Program awards funding for innovative science proposals submitted by educators in three areas: environmental science; physical science; and integrating literacy & science. Since the program's inception in 1990, educators from all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Mariana Islands have received Toyota TAPESTRY Grants.

Toyota and NSTA are pleaseed to announce the 2010 Toyota TAPESTRY Grant recipients. Selected from more than 500 applications, 79 K-12 educators across the country will promote science education through the program. Toyota will award nearly $550,000 in grants. To learn more about the 2010 Toyota TAPESTRY Program, please click here.

IN THE NEWS: Toyota TAPESTRY teacher Brian McDowell named 2009 Kentucky Science Teacher of the Year!

For more information about Toyota TAPESTRY Grants, please visit the NSTA-TAPESTRY Web site or contact tapestry@nsta.org. Check out the Toyota TAPESTRY Page on Facebook and connect with other educators from around the country.

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