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TIER Grant
"Building Horizons for Our Future Workforce"

SpaceTEAMS is a comprehensive program for STEM reform (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics).   SpaceTEAMS uses robotics as a tool for reform and provides teacher training to create systemic change.  Additionally, SpaceTEAMS is connecting students to pathways towards STEM careers. SpaceTEAMS consists of the following major efforts:

1. Summer Camp
2. Teacher Training
3. The San Antonio Robotics Support Center
4. the SpaceTEAMS Virtual World, used to recruit students, train teachers, and extend the benefits of SpaceTEAMS into the classroom.

Teacher Training

While the SpaceTEAMS summer camp is the core program offering, SpaceTEAMS Teacher Training is an essential step of preparation with long-term impact on the effectiveness of education in our schools. SpaceTEAMS Teacher Training consists of three weeks of intensive teacher training led by an expert instructor. Targeted at high school teachers who are used to delivering content via lecture and lesson plans, these three weeks use the VEX robotics kits and the upcoming summer camp as the driver for sharing new ways of teaching.

Summer Robotics Program

The SpaceTEAMS Summer Camp is a program for elementary, middle, and high school-aged children. Themed around our nation’s future manned mission to Mars, SpaceTEAMS opens career fields in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) through the exploration of robotics. Successful robot builders must employ mechanical, electrical and software engineering, systems thinking, creativity and teamwork to succeed in their efforts. SpaceTEAMS uses age-appropriate techniques to start children down a path that integrates science and art in the course of STEM exploration.

Robotics Support Center

SpaceTEAMS proposes to gather robotics leaders in San Antonio to form a Robotics Support Center, and we believe such an effort would meet multiple objectives:

1. Provide support for multiple robotics programs.
2. Coordinate among programs in the region.
3. Make SpaceTEAMS Teacher Training available for all robotics programs.
4. Sponsor a yearly regional robotics tournament in San Antonio.
5. Lead efforts to intentionally connect robotics programs with related workforce and economic development efforts. For example, this effort could build a bridge for sending students into Alamo Area Academies, meeting needs for the local Aerospace, IT, IT Security and Advanced Manufacturing industries.


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