these funds were used mainly to collaboratively disseminate technologysupported education to more diverse student populations the catalyst initiative also provided nonfinancial support for collaboration including opportunities for facetoface meetings online communication infrastructure training and coaching regular monitoring feedback and communication design of the hp catalyst initiative cont the structure of the catalyst initiative was designed to promote collaboration for innovation in stem education at three different levels first at the project level the catalyst members carried out core research and development work on technology and stemeducation second at the consortium level full and associate members were grouped together to enhance collaboration and innovation around specific themes such as informal learning assessment or teacher professional development box