(e) promoteresearch that advances the frontiers of knowledge in STEM high school education. We have engaged is this project for two years. To date, we have trained twenty-seven middle and high school STEM teachers who are now delivering the innovativeSTEM curriculum that they created during a professional development teacher academy,to their middle and high school students. Preliminary results of the teacher and studentcurriculum intervention reveal that the teachers are highly efficacious (mean is STEMteaching efficacy is 3.89 on a 4-point scale) to teach in STEM subjects and areperforming better than prior to our teacher professional development intervention (meanincreases are 1.7 points on a 4-point multi-dimensional observational rubric).Additionally, the middle and high school students’ STEM literacy, math and scienceknowledge and achievement have significantly increased, (mean increase in STEMliteracy is 1.29 grade levels, and gains in STEM content are ~ 28%). These results, whilepreliminary, reveal a promising outcome for both teachers and students in middle andhigh school STEM programs.