Students
The flagship award is the Riya Bhakkad Memorial Scholarship: a mentored STEM experience for enrolled students at five named colleges.
Vienna, Virginia · Founded 2012
An excellent STEM education should be within reach.
We believe that everyone should receive an excellent education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Our goal is to help empower the educational community in STEM, which in turn will help close the educational gap.
What is published today
- 2012Year the foundation was started
- 501(c)(3)EIN 87-4232648
- Up to $10,000Riya Bhakkad award in the last published description
- 12 weeksRemote program with an SSAI mentor
Start with who you are
Educators and librarians
A kindergarten teacher at Guilford ES wrote to thank the foundation for STEM books. You can ask about books or a visit.
Volunteers and mentors
The scholarship pairs a student with a mentor from Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI). Tell us if you can help.
Partners
Schools, libraries, museums, and companies can write about working together. Logos are not shown until each organization agrees.
In their words
STEM books for a kindergarten classroom
We are so appreciative to the Bahethi Family Foundation for donating STEM books to our Kindergarten grade level classrooms. Our students were so excited to learn about STEM and all the different career paths they have discovered from the books you donated to us!
A Kaufman Scholarship recipient at East Carolina University
Thank you so much for awarding me the Dr. Yoram J. Kaufman Scholarship. It was such an honor to receive this prestigious scholarship. I am so excited to use this money to further my education at East Carolina University.
At ECU, I hope to be a part of many clubs and service activities, and more! This will help me become a nurse and eventually lead me to my dream job-become a pediatric nurse practitioner.
Again, thank you so much for believing in me.
From Jodhpur to NASA Goddard
Om and Saraswati (Sara) Bahethi left Jodhpur, Rajasthan, in the 1960s. Om earned a Ph.D. in nuclear physics at SUNY Buffalo, worked at NASA Goddard for a contractor, and in 1977 founded SSAI with Sara. They started this foundation in 2012.
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