MORE (Mentorship Opportunities for Research Engagement) at NU facilitates graduate student mentorship for high schoolers in STEM, promoting high-level research collaborations with local schools.

Northwestern's MWM project offers interdisciplinary, hands-on science modules for middle and high school students, enhancing materials science education and aligning with national standards, impacting over 100,000 students nationwide.

The UW MEM-C AYRA REU program provides undergraduate students with research experiences, professional development, and lab integration across two or three academic quarters, culminating in a symposium presentation.

The MRSEC at Harvard promotes scientific literacy and engineering awareness through its Holiday Lecture Series, collaborating with Princeton MRSEC to engage families in materials science topics since 2002.

The CCAM Materials REU is an eight-week program for up to 18 students, emphasizing MSE fundamentals, interdisciplinary research, advanced degree preparation, and skill-building seminars under faculty mentorship.

The transport properties of oxides underscore many of the most exciting applications of these complex materials, ranging from solid electrolytes for fuel cells, to the interplay between electrical and thermal transport in thermoelectric oxides, to their use in thermal barrier coatings and potential for first wall materials for fusion reactors as well as for long-term immobilization of radioactive waste.

The NU-MRSEC offers an Academic-Year Undergraduate Research Internship for Northwestern students to engage in materials science research, receiving hourly stipends and working 10-20 hours weekly.

The CDCM's K-12 outreach program, STUFF, aims to educate and inspire students and teachers in materials science, fostering interest in STEM careers and innovation through various initiatives and partnerships.

Discover STEM, hosted by the University of Minnesota (UMN), offers summer programs for high school students, focusing on STEM research topics, networking, and career exploration through interactive sessions.

CCMR Educational Programs Office provides educational resource for teachers, The Lending Library of Experiments. The Lending Library offers lesson plans and student activity sheets available for download on a wide variety of science topics that have been or are being designed to meet the Next Generation Science Standards.