Deadline: 31 March 2019
The U.S. Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City Public Affairs Section (PAS) has announced funding is available through the Public Diplomacy Federal Assistance Awards program for its “Technology Club.
Through this funding opportunity the U.S. Consulate General aims to provide American Center patrons high quality opportunities to learn and experience the new Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) programs.
Proposals that focus on one or more of the priority STEM programs and target audiences specified below will receive funding. They will not consider funding proposals for students under age 15:
- Robotics Club: Courses aimed at high-schoolers and college students to learn about robotics concepts, STEM fields. Classes should be scheduled at a regular basis and captured with capstone project to evaluate the impact.
- Coding and Programming Club: Courses aimed at students and young professionals on coding and programming languages.
- STEM literacy: Courses aimed at high-schoolers and college students who have zero knowledge of understanding of STEM applications on data science, computer science and Internet of Things (IoT) so that participants can widen the choices of higher education and STEM related career opportunities.
- Industry 4.0: Courses aimed at high-schoolers and college students to learn about Artificial Intelligent (AI), Business Intelligent (BI), Big Data/Analytics, 3D Assembly Modelling, and Internet of Things (IoT).
- Makerspace: Courses implemented at the American Center’s Makerspace that nurture high-schoolers’ STEM curiosity early to enhance creativity, innovation, and problem solving skills.
- STEM and Business: Courses aimed for participants currently working in STEM related business to introduce the fundamentals of enterprise development, supply chain, and marketing practices that are essential to creating STEM startups. The program will help build a network and ongoing mentorship for its students and young professionals in practicing STEM and entrepreneurial process.
- Video Production Club: Developing production of short videos on topics related to fundamental freedoms, trade, economy, investment, environment, health, energy, and wildlife.
- Audio-Visual Club: Courses on the functional basics of audio-visual technology to include sound systems, film, 3D-printing, photography, editing and design basics.
- Photography/Graphics Design Club: Courses designed to teach basic photography skills, photojournalism, photo editing, graphic design for social media.
Funding Information
Award Amount will vary between $1,000 and $15,000.
Length of Performance Period
Duration should be a minimum of six months and a maximum of one year. Successful projects will be eligible for renewal.
Eligible Entities
- Submissions are encouraged from U.S. and Vietnam entities with relevant programming experience. This experience should be documented in the proposal. Eligible entities include:
- not-for-profit, civil society/non-governmental organizations
- universities or non-profit English teaching institutions; non-profit educational institutions
- individuals
- For-profit entities are not allowed to apply. Previous federal award recipients who are not/were not in compliance with the terms of their financial and program reporting requirements are ineligible to apply.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted at the address given on the website.
For more information, please visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=310543