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Inventionland Education is excited to announce the opening of its 2025-2026 Innovation Grant Cycle, an initiative that welcomes Catholic schools, dioceses, and other faith-based learning institutions across the country to apply. Recognizing that many private and parochial schools are often excluded from other grant opportunities, this grant program provides a much-needed way for faith-based schools to access innovative environments, curriculum, and professional learning to transform K-12 education.

A Transformative Opportunity for Faith-Based and Private Schools

The Inventionland Education Innovation Grant is a supplemental grant designed to transform learning environments and enhance student engagement across all types of schools, including those with a religious mission. This grant helps offset the costs of implementing immersive Innovation Labs, applied STEM curriculum, and professional development for educators, allowing schools to bring meaningful innovation to their classrooms, regardless of their affiliation.

What the Grant Offers

Each grant recipient is eligible to select one, two, or all three of the following components:

1. Immersive Innovation Labs®

One of the grant’s core elements is helping to reduce the cost of designing and installing Innovation Labs®, engaging and modern spaces where students collaborate, invent, and explore. These labs go beyond the traditional classroom setting by integrating tools and technologies that inspire creativity, problem-solving, and real-world thinking.

Faith-based schools can utilize these labs in core academic areas or even integrate them into CTE programs and career readiness pathways, helping students prepare for the future while staying grounded in their school’s values.

2. Applied-STEM Innovation Curriculum

Our Applied STEM curriculum brings science, technology, engineering, and math to life through invention-based learning. Students work through a proprietary 9-step innovation process, just like professionals at Inventionland, one of the world’s largest invention factories, to design their own products and solutions.

Grant funding helps offset one-third of the curriculum cost, making this dynamic and industry-relevant program more affordable for private and parochial schools that want to introduce real-world learning to their students.

3. Professional Learning for Educators

The grant also includes support for professional development, equipping teachers to confidently implement the curriculum and utilize innovative tools and maker machines. This training empowers educators to deliver project-based learning experiences that foster creativity and student ownership of ideas, all while reinforcing their school’s mission and values.

Now Accepting Applications from Catholic and Faith-Based Schools

Take advantage of the opportunity to join schools across the country that are embracing the future of education. Inventionland Education awarded more Innovation Grants last year than ever before, and with this new cycle,

Faith-based schools are encouraged to apply and benefit.

If your Catholic school, diocese, or other faith-based institution has been seeking innovative ways to modernize learning but has faced barriers due to limited eligibility in other programs, this grant could be right for you.

Download an application and start reimagining what learning could look like in your school today.