Employees can contribute their science and engineering skills by participating in the GASSSS (GA Scientists/Engineers Supporting Science/Engineering for Students) program. Employees are reimbursed for purchases.
Employees can volunteer as on-line reading tutors to at-risk 1st graders via the Chapter One program. The tutoring is done from your desk for 30 minutes per week, and includes the reading of science stories.
GA scientists have developed education modules, education presentations, hands-on materials, posters, and have published articles.
The Foundation provides a limited number of grants, mostly to regional science related non-profits. Guidelines for requesting support are provided here..
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The General Atomics Sciences Education Foundation has been actively involved in improving K-12 science and engineering education since 1992 by providing outreach support to GA employees, funding STEM non-profit organizations, and developing educational resources.
The Foundation supports employees to engage in education outreach via the GASSSS program, where they can receive a charge number for up to 9 hours as well as reimbursement for up to $500 in STEM purchases per calendar year. For additional information, see the GASSSS Details and Application Form on the GASSSS web site.
If you are a GA employee and want to participate in education outreach but don’t know where to start, click here.
If you are a teacher or science educator and would like a GA employee to work with your class/school/program, you can place your request on the GASSSS Matchmaker site or you can contact Dr. Larry Woolf to communicate your request to GA employees.
Chapter One registration is now open for the 2025-2026 school year. There is a limit of 20 tutors this year. Please see the Chapter One tab for additional registration information.
Congratulations to the following GA employees who have recently completed a GASSSS activity: Paul Kwan, Alejandro Gastelum, Melissa Wallace, Paul Auger, David Jensen, Kent Koster, John Adams, Aaron Webb, Owen Lovell, Jordan Buxton, Alejandro Loza, Timothy Novinger, Russell Porter, Daniel Lyyjoki, Katherine Kucharski, Michael Hunter, Tina Reuter, Sheila Meyer, Don Czechowicz, Nina Langley, Alberto Nunez, Carole Christian, Shahin Pajoom, Isaac Ruiz, Alex Haid, Brian Ngsee, Syed Akbar, Chau Nguyen, Alexander Quan, Barak Horowitz, Kelly Seiler Vocke, Auna Moser, Erik Olofsson, Joel Petracci, Hannah Houze, George Partida, Darren Trieu, Barak Horowitz, Daniel Thomas, Cory Cottonaro, Breanna Bergado, Kyle Wirth, Michael Allwein, Orpheus Dong, Michael Sakamoto, Micheal Spies, David Boucher, Carson Brown, Alex Waldron, Charles Kaneb, Alexander Jones, Robert Belshaw, Conor Archdeacon, Nicholas McMahon, Christine Dubuque, Roger Nielsen, Kathreen Thome, Tess Bernard, Galina Avdeeva, Shawn Tang, Colin Chrystal, Gregory Sinclair, Lindsay Ward-Kavanagh, 60 GA-ASI interns, 6 GA-EMS interns, 2 Diazyme interns, 11 GA interns, Karen Hovey, Sheila Gerace, Angela Marinelli, Heather Shelby, Chris Geraci.