Forty five students (with a focus on African Americans, Latinos, and girls) in Chicago are learning environmental science and using IT to share what they’ve learned with peers and visitors to the Nature Museum.

Project LA COSTA was a three-year, youth-based ITEST project sponsored by the Texas State University - San Marcos. The project created a computer science academy to provide IT experiences for 250 Hispanic students during their 8th-10th grades across 5 central and south Texas school districts

Eighty teachers and 758 students in the Fargo, North Dakota, area assume leadership roles as citizen volunteers and conduct surface water quality monitoring activities, analyze data and disseminate results to enhance local decision-making capacity. Training includes collection, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of scientific data.

Sixty high school students in St. Louis, Missouri develop computer fluency through concrete application experiences such as designing and building a greenhouse. The project introduces teens to real-life technology applications and challenges through ongoing peer and mentoring relationships.

Over three years, YouthLink will engage 120 teens in informal, IT-intensive educational experiences that promote IT skills identified by national NETS standards and develop student interest in IT-intensive study and careers. Historically underrepresented populations – low-income students, students

Two hundred middle and high school students in the Washington, DC area with teachers, scientists, and experts to increase their motivation, achievement, and exposure to STEM careers and disciplines through game design, mentoring, and collaboration.

The Harlem Children Society (HC) was established in 2000 with 3 students from 2 schools by a research scientist at Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. The project now serves 800 students from over 150 schools with 1500 mentors at 150 institutions. HCS seeks NSF support to focus on the critical IT skills

More than 100 middle and high school students from Lowell, Massachusetts engage in hands-on nanotechnology related experiments facilitated by project staff, UMass Lowell students and faculty, and industry professionals.

In Texas the CommunITy Studios project will offer 70 middle and high school youths activities in information technology (IT) and science, technology engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education.

Sixty high school Hispanic, English language learners at the Latino College Preparatory Academy in East San Jose engage in interactive, hands-on, creative science workshops and research opportunities to inspire and motivate them towards STEM education.