Sec. 103. Project-based learning program
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The Secretary shall direct the Office to conduct research to investigate and make recommendations regarding the feasibility and existing authority to establish a national project-based science and technology learning program, to be known as the “K–12 Science and Technology Learning Program” and make a report to both House and Senate Oversight Committees. Under such research program, the Secretary shall determine existing authority to— create State and regional workshops to train teachers in science and technology project-based learning; establish between institutions of higher education, businesses, and local public and private educational agencies that serve students comprised of 40 percent of more of professional and academics under represented areas to provide materials and teaching aids to teachers who successfully complete the science and technology project-based learning program under this section; identify no cost or low cost summer and after school science and technology education programs and broadly disseminate that information to the public; and make grants to local educational agencies to support the participation of teachers of elementary school and secondary school in science and technology training programs by providing travel and enrollment expenses, with a priority given to teachers who work in schools serving neglected, delinquent, migrant students, English learners, at-risk students, and Native Americans, as determined by the Secretary.
The Secretary shall have the authority under this statute to conduct a limited pilot project to test recommendations on possible programs that would be low-cost but have the greatest impact on instilling the importance of technology and science education. The Secretary shall submit to Congress an annual report on the program established under this section. In this section, the term project-based science and technology learning means a systematic teaching method that engages students in learning essential science, technology, engineering and mathematics through knowledge and life-enhancing skills through an extended, student-influenced inquiry process structured around complex, authentic questions and carefully designed products and tasks developed specifically for education.