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Building on the work of her ITEST project, Dr. Darrah has created eTouchSciences, a company that provides educational software utilizing haptic technology, which provides real-time tactile feedback to visually impaired students as they explore math and science lessons.

STELAR recently caught up with Dr. S. Ray Bullock, Research Professor of Physics and Director of Outreach Programs at Fisk University. Dr. Bullock is the Prinicpal Investigator for The Urban Community Project to Stimulate Interests in STEM Careers (U-CPS) project, which provides professional development to middle and high school teachers through the development of learning modules utilizing robotics, rocketry, computers and ICT programming skills

STELAR recently caught up with Dr. Lauren Birney, Assistant Professor of STEM Education at PACE University's School of Education, and Director of The STEM Collaboratory NYC™. Dr. Birney serves as the Principal Investigator for the ITEST and ICER funded project Curriculum and Community Enterprise for the New York Harbor Restoration in New York City Public Schools (CCERS). This project works with NYC middle school students to study New York Harbor

STELAR recently connected with Sarah Pidgeon (Solar One) about the GreenTECH project, which is a three-year project focusing on green technology and careers at the high school level. Partners are: Solar One, a Green Energy Arts and Education Center; MOUSE (Making Opportunities for Upgrading Schools & Education), a youth development program that prepares young people to serve as technology experts; the Wallerstein Collaborative for Urban Environmental Education at New York University, and the New York City Department of Education (DOE). The GreenTECH program combines the successful methodology of the Solar One Green Design Lab program with the highly effective approach of MOUSE Technical Squads.

STELAR had the opportunity to speak with Jason Painter (North Carolina State University) about the STEM Career Clubs project, an initiative which builds on a successful and research-based Strategic Teaming Model to increase the likelihood that participating students will pursue STEM majors and careers. The project is driven by three key objectives: 1) Facilitate students' and parents' identification with the STEM community by increasing their

STELAR recently connected with Rena Dorph, Kevin Cuff, and Matthew Cannady (The Lawrence Hall of Science at the University of California, Berkeley) about the Engaging Youth in Expanded STEM Career Pathways through Clean Energy Literacy Development project, which involves over 300 students per year in urban East Bay communities in grades 9 and 10 in bridging clean energy science investigations within their community with programming skills.* Can

STELAR had the opportunity to speak with Ralph Imondi (Coastal Marine Biolabs Integrative Biosciences Program) about the Barcoding Life's Matrix project, which engages students in an international collaboration that aims to create a genetic encyclopedia of Earth's plants and animals using short DNA sequences that uniquely identify species groups. The goal of this Strategies project is to interest students in STEM careers by providing them with an

Bernadette Sibuma brings more than a decade of experience in educational research and evaluation to the STEM Learning and Research Center. With special expertise in cognition, instructional technologies, and human-computer interaction, Bernadette's research interests include how we can enhance science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning, how people best learn with technology, and how different interface designs affect

STELAR had the opportunity to speak with Lucy Dunne (University of Minnesota), about the Smart Clothing, Smart Girls project, which is a collaborative strategy project with Cornell University using apparel design as a vehicle to attract middle school girls to STEM learning and engineering careers. Based on a theoretical framework that supports mechanisms for engaging young, female participants in STEM, the project team has thoughtfully designed

This is a reposting of a blog originally published on Education Development Center, Inc.'s Learning and Teaching website.Jim Diamond has extensive experience in formative research, instructional design, and the effective use of digital media and games to enhance K–12 education and promote social justice. He leads an evaluation of iDesign, a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST