The Upper Cumberland Rural STEM Initiative works to enhance STEM education in rural middle schools through partnerships with organizations, a STEM mobile lab, STEM focus schools, career pathways programs, an annual conference, and classroom mini-grants. The initiative partners with over a dozen groups from education to industry and focuses on subjects like food, health, and the body through hands-on modules. It aims to build regional connections and support STEM innovations in schools.

1. Upper Cumberland
Rural STEM Initiative
Hub Outcomes

2. Partnerships
Averitt Express
Cookeville Regional Medical Center
Oakley STEM Center – TN Tech Univ
Oak Ridge Associated Universities
Highlands Initiative
National Science Teachers Association
Tennessee Solar Conversion and Storage using Outreach, Research and
Education (TN-SCORE)
US Department of Agriculture
Volunteer State Community College
TN Technology Center – Livingston
WCTE
Upper Cumberland Local Education Agencies

3. STEM Modules
My Food
My Body
My Health

4. STEMmobile

5. STEM Focus Schools
BLEDSOE BLEDSON COUNTY MIDDLE SCHOOL PICKETT PICKETT COUNTY K-8
CANNON WOODBURY GRAMMAR PUTNAM – PLATFORM SCHOOL PRESCOTT ELEMENTARY &
MIDDLE SCHOOL
CLAY CELINA K-8 SEQUATCHIE SEQUATCHIE MIDDLE
SCHOOL
CUMBERLAND FRANK P. BROWN ELEMENTARY
SMITH SMITH COUNTY MIDDLE
DEKALB DEKALB WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SUMNER JOE SHAFER MIDDLE
SCHOOL
FENTRESS ALLARD ELEMENTARY
TROUSDALE JIM SATTERFIELD MIDDLE
GRUNDY PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
VAN BUREN SPENCER ELEMENTARY
JACKSON GAINESBORO ELEMENTARY
WARREN EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY
LEBANON SPECIAL SCHOOL WALTER J. BAIRD
WHITE WHITE COUNTY MIDDLE
SCHOOL
MACON MACON COUNTY JUNIOR HIGH
WILSON SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY
OVERTON LIVINGSTON MIDDLE SCHOOL

6. STEM Career Pathways
• Family Engagement Evenings
• FAB Fridays
• Career Fairs

7. UCRSI STEM Conference
October 2013
• Showcases
Partnerships
• Enhances regional
connections
• Celebrates school
innovations

8. UCRSI Volunteer Corp
online training
prepares STEM
professionals to be
effective in their
outreach to STEM
learners.

9. STEM Classroom Mini-Grants
awarded to
teachers from
the LEA partners
to enhance STEM
instruction