ITYC Summit - 2025 New Awardee Program

February - May 2026

By invitation only

In early 2026, the ITYC Summit Project is running a virtual program for PIs and Co-PIs who received awards in 2025.

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Why Participate?

• Connect and Collaborate: Network with other 2025 ITYC awardees. Share your expertise, learn from others, and build lasting professional relationships.
• Enhance Student Success: Explore evidence-based practices that increase student success, strengthen undergraduate research, and pave pathways to the STEM workforce.
• Solve Real-World Challenges: Engage in interactive sessions to address critical challenges facing TYC STEM education and envision impactful solutions.
• Amplify Your Impact: Tell others about your results and lessons learned, explore effective strategies for leading grant-funded projects, and contribute to the national dialogue on STEM education.
• Stipend: Registered participants will receive a $600 stipend for attending the 6 sessions and completing the expected deliverables for the program — a "micro-poster" about their ITYC project for session 1 and a short reflection following session 6.

Timeline

1. Interest Form: Complete by Friday, January 16, 2026.
2. Webinar: Friday, January 23, 2026 - 1:00 PM ET | 12:00 PM CT | 11:00 AM MT | 10:00 AM PT
3. Program Registration: Registration has closed for this year's program.
4. Sessions run from February 27-May 8, 2026.

Sessions

The program will run on 6 Fridays between the end of February and the beginning of May. Each session will be 2.5 hours starting at 12:00 Eastern Time and encompassing two separate but related topical units. There will be an optional half-hour for informal conversations following each session.

Dates and Topics

• February 27: Getting to know you: Introductions and learning about your ITYC projects. Participants will share microposters about their project in small breakout groups.
• March 13: Grant management.Overview of post-award challenges and support, then a panel of 3 ITYC PIs followed by Q&A.
• March 27: Leadership and partnerships.A leadership development session, followed by a panel of 2YC grants officers on effective partnerships.
• April 10: Supporting student success: Strategies, outcomes, and evidence of success. Facilitated concurrent sessions about undergraduate research, 2YC-4YC transfer, other strategies to support student success, and faculty professional development.
• May 1: Evaluation. Interactive session on strengthening evaluative thinking, then a panel of 2YC PIs sharing their work, responding to questions posed by participants in a round of breakouts.
• May 8: Communicating project outcomes. Participants will select two of the following three concurrent sessions: writing NSF reports, getting published, disseminating your outcomes, then time for reflection, breakouts, end-of-workshop evaluation.