The Campaign for Catholic Schools (CCS) has announced a $37,000 grant from the Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation toward a new science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) set to be offered this fall at St. John Paul II Catholic Academy in Dorchester.

The grant will provide computer coding/robotics devices for all grades at the Uphams Corner/Columbia and Neponset campuses.

“We are enormously grateful to the Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation (CSCF) for its commitment to education,” said CCS President James Walsh. “CSCF understands that communities are only as strong as the institutions that support them, and this grant serves as testimony to their vision and business philosophy.”

STEM is an important new focus for the Academy, which has hired new faculty coaches and expanded professional development for teachers. This grant will support the Academy’s computer coding/robotics module, and will aid students in exploring spatial concepts, measurement, geometry, and meta-cognitive processes.