Cycling Event Raises $15,000 to Support STEM Education

The chapter raised $15,000 through Cycle for STEM to go toward scholarships and grants. On Father's Day, participants rode the historic route along the Potomac River from LBJ Memorial Grove next to the Pentagon to Mount Vernon and back—a 30-mile trip. The funds raised enable the chapter's Education Foundation to provide scholarships to deserving students majoring in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and to award grants to superior high school teachers. Each year, to promote higher education in the STEM fields of computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, chemistry and management information systems, the chapter sponsors STEM scholarships for graduating high school seniors. Since May 1989, the chapter has awarded 360 scholarships, totaling more than $2.3 million, to students from 112 area high schools going to 71 U.S. colleges.