Join NCSTA today!
New and renewing members complete a membership form and submit your dues by check or online securely with a credit card.

Benefits of Membership

• Reflector Newsletter with workshop and grant opportunities for science teachers as well as teacher awards and accomplishments.
  
  
• Annual Professional Development Institute where teachers can
  • learn about successful science activities and teaching methods
  • participate in exemplary hands-on science activities
  • make contacts with other science teachers, higher education science education faculty and resource people representing science-related agencies, science museums, state aquariums, state forests, state parks and nature centers
  • present what they are doing in their classroom, which will help them to “grow” professionally
  • meet science vendors and learn about new resources and programs
  • get a lot of “free stuff”
  • discuss the state EOG and EOC science tests with the developers
    
    
• Awards for science teachers at all levels.
  
  
• An opportunity to learn more about NSTA and to purchase important publications at a reduced price.
  
  
• Study and Curriculum grants for teachers.
  
  
• Free to nature and science centers across the state including
  • Sciworks in Winston-Salem
  • Imagination Station in Wilson
  • Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetaria in Gastonia
  • Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill
  • The Health Adventure in Asheville
    
    
• A chance to be involved in setting the direction that science education takes in North Carolina by serving as an elected officer or committee member.
  
  
• Information and resources that will help teachers to become true leaders in science education at their schools and in their school district.
  
  
• Build life-long friendships with science teachers across the state.
  
  
• Meet consultants from the DPI who will share the latest curriculum documents and answer important questions.
  
  
• Meet young science education college students who will be looking for a teaching position in a North Carolina school upon graduation.