Today's curious students are tomorrow's innovators. GM wants to inspire young people to pursue the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) careers that will transform transportation. To encourage that inspiration, we are excited to provide fun, yet challenging, projects for students and classroom-ready lesson plans for teachers.

Inspiring Future Innovators

As a responsible corporate neighbor, GM believes it's important to leave our children and grandchildren a world that is in better shape than the way we found it. We’ve learned a lot about building cleaner, more efficient cars, but the growing global demand for transportation continually challenges us to develop new technologies to reduce the impact of our products on the environment. We need strong, smart, motivated engineers to drive our future.

Our education website includes professionally developed classroom curriculums, hands-on experiments and interactive, experiential activities that encourage students to dig deeper and discover their potential. Parents can use these free resources to combat summer and holiday vacation "brain drain" and stimulate learning at home.

GM and the GM Foundation also invest in nationally recognized competitions like For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST). Students involved in FIRST are more likely to go on to become engineers; one graduate, for example, is already testing advanced batteries as a GM engineer.

For students who decide to pursue STEM careers but need help with college costs, the Buick Achievers scholarship program awarded more than $4.5 million in scholarships in 2011. These scholarships – an investment in tomorrow’s engineering talent – are crucial as escalating college costs outpace many families' incomes.