TORRANCE, Calif., March 31 /PRNewswire/ — Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., Inc. recognized 78 science teachers from across the country this weekend with $550,000 in grants via the Toyota TAPESTRY: Grants for Science Teachers program at the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) National Conference on Science Education in Boston, Mass. At the conference, Toyota also received recognition for its significant contribution toward the construction of a new, state-of-the-art science education center in Arlington, Va. and corresponding Web-based resource portal to be used by science teachers nationwide.

As the nation’s largest science teacher grant program, Toyota TAPESTRY selected 78 proposals for funding from the more than 500 submitted by K-12 teachers. The projects funded by the Toyota TAPESTRY program will be implemented in classrooms beginning in June 2008.

Of the $550,000 granted, 50 teachers received up to $10,000 each and 28 received grants of up to $2,500 each. More than $8 million has been awarded to 986 teams of teachers throughout the program’s 18-year history.

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