Welcome to the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges!

Are you wondering about how you might blend love of learning, social justice and working with people into an engaging, innovative and sustainable career?  Then you have come to the right place!  Click here to meet some of our current scholars and find out why they have a passion to teach science and math in high need schools! 

Scholars in the News!  Bryn Mawr Now Profiles Noyce Scholar Program! Read about our new 5th Year Penn Master's Option and about the honoring of our current Noyce Scholars at the Lighting the Way Event at Bryn Mawr in January!  Scholars speak out on what brought them to choose teaching as a career path and their experiences in the classroom so far.

The latest "Education Life" supplement in The New York Times features photos from students of memorable class assignments. Two photos submitted by Bryn Mawr students made the online slide show and one, submitted by Noyce Scholar Dorothy Shu '13, made the print edition!  Check out Dorothy's work (#6) showing her commitment to making sure all students get a great eduction! 
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/02/03/education/edlife/20130203PHOTOBOOTH.html?ref=edlife

Bryn Mawr and Haverford
Noyce Math and Science Teacher Program

Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges have received a 5 year, $900,000 grant from the Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program of the National Science Foundation. Bryn Mawr and Haverford’s Noyce program aims to encourage math and science majors and alumni/ae to explore opportunities in math and science education and offers generous scholarships to students who are committed to the challenging social justice work of teaching math and science in high-needs secondary schools. There are seveal scholarship options: juniors can apply for a two-year scholarship, seniors and alumnae/i can apply for a one-year scholarship.

The program will provide undergraduate students at initial stages of exploration with spring break internship opportunities in math and science education and will link students to the wide range of teaching related opportunities available on the two campuses.

Junior math and science majors are invited to apply for the Bryn Mawr and Haverford two-year Noyce Teacher Scholarships. The Noyce Scholarships are intended for students who plan to become certified to teach mathematics or science (biology, chemistry or physics) at the secondary level so as to pursue a teaching career.   These scholarhips will provide generous support (up to $70,000) for the Noyce  Fellows while they complete their major during their senior year and then complete their teacher certification requirements in the 5th year Teacher Education Program.  Applications for Juniors are due Friday, March 22, 2013.

We also offer a 5th year only option for seniors and for alumnae/i with a scholarship of $35,000 for tuition and living expenses. Applicants MUST be able to complete the certification requirements in one year.  The application is the same as for the 4th and   5th year option and is due by:

Round I - Friday, November 30, 2012                                                            Round II - Friday, March 22, 2013.

All applicants are eligible to apply for our 5th year Penn Master's Option.  For more information about this, click on the highlighted link.

Scholarship recipients must be U.S. citizens or nationals, or permanent resident aliens.

For each year of scholarship support, the Noyce Fellows will be expected to teach for    2 years in a high-needs school in the Greater Philadelphia region. If a Fellow does not fulfill his/her teaching obligation, then the scholarship becomes a loan that the Fellow is required to repay.

Bryn Mawr and Haverford Noyce Fellows will become part of a regional and national network of Noyce Fellows that will support and encourage the Fellows in their work and help them connect to broader movements for educational change. The seven institutions in the Philadelphia region that have Noyce programs (Bryn Mawr and Haverford, Drexel, La Salle, Penn, Temple, and Saint Joseph's) have received a NSF grant to develop joint programming for their Fellows. There is a Northeast Noyce Consortium that holds an annual conference for Fellows.  This year it will take place from October 11 - 13 in Boston, MA. 

For more information about the Noyce Teacher Scholarship, please contact Bonnie Hallam, Program Coordinator at bhallam@brynmawr.edu.