2022 NSF ITEST PI Meeting

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Welcome to the online program for the 2022 NSF ITEST Principal Investigator Meeting!

Below you will find tabs showcasing information about the event, including our meeting themes, agenda with links to presentations and recordings, our virtual poster session, and a resource library created from resources shared during the event.

Featured Highlights & Keynotes: 

Opening Remarks by ITEST Leadership and EDU Assistant Dir. James L. Moore

Kumar Garg, Vice President of Partnerships and Managing Director of Schmidt Futures

Jeannine Dingus-Eason, Dean of the Feinstein School of Education and Human Development, Rhode Island College

NSF Town Hall with EDU DRL Division Director Evan K. Heit & ITEST Program Officers

Robert Simmons III, Head of Social Impact and STEM Programs, Micron Technology

View additional session materials and recordings below.

Questions, please contact us at stelar@edc.org.

 

Virtual Poster Session

Browse the 2022 NSF ITEST PI Meeting Posters.

Take Flight


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Image of Take Flight Poster with details on the project
Take Flight is a free adaptable school curriculum program developed by Learning Scientists at CAST, the organization that founded Universal Design for Learning (UDL), funded by the National Science Foundation. Through Take Flight, teachers middle school teacher have access to the curriculum, tools..

Fostering STEM identify development through localized engineering for LGBTQ+ youth displaced by housing insecurity


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The project will develop and research a model for engaging LGBTQ+ youth experiencing housing insecurity in an engineering education program. This research program explicitly broadens engineering and STEM participation through a three-year Design-Based Research study. The team will collaboratively..

Developing Hands-on Virtual Reality Science Laboratory Experiences


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We recently published our first paper, entitled “Framework For Scalable Content Development In Hands-on Virtual And Mixed Reality Science Labs describing the technical features and preliminary usability data of our mixed-reality science lab system (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9815945). This..

Catalyzing Inclusive STEM Experience All Year Round (CISTEME365)


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Logo showing how CISTEME365's 3 pillars of IDEA teams, STEM clubs, and Summer camps enable more students to pursue STEM majors/careers.
The CISTEME365 project headquartered at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign hypothesizes that experiences with cutting-edge technology must exist all year-round to effect significant improvement. Thus, the fundamental project goal is to enable middle and high school Underrepresented Students..

Preparing Students for the New Manufacturing Economy: An Integrative Learning Approach


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CTE Manufacturing Cycle
This project advances a Career & Technical Education employing a Horizontal Learning Model (HLM) integrates knowledge/skills across multiple technology areas within an authentic practice. The HLM organizes learning expansively through a series of graduated projects that allows students to..

Collaborative Research: Expanding Socio-Environmental Science Investigations with Geospatial Technologies in High Schools


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Screenshot of student-created map following investigation of trash on school campus
This project expands from a single site into a multi-university, multi-school teacher professional development and curriculum development initiative for geospatial integration into science, social studies, and STEM courses. Student outcomes addressed include spatial thinking and reasoning and STEM..

Connecting Students with Autism to Geographic Information Science & Technology Careers


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GIST Participants
The goal of this project is to develop an innovative, research-based workforce development model for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder that (1) increases student self-regulation, interest, and motivation in Geographic Information Science & Technology (GIST), (2) expands students’ understanding..

Partnership to provide technology and cyber-security experiences to Alabama Black Belt through mobile application development


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ITEST-Alabama Program Image
This ITEST-Alabama (Developing and Testing Innovations: DTI) project aims to advance efforts to better understand and promote practices that increase minority high school students' motivations and capacities to pursue STEM careers. This project engages students in hands-on field experience..

Robot-Mediated Learning: Exploring School-Deployed Collaborative Robots


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a child tele-operating a robot and walking with friends
Project Overview: Advance robot-mediated learning in schools and investigate how collaborative tele-robots can facilitate optimal learning experiences.

Build a Better Book Teen Internships: Connecting Technical Work to Social Needs


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Teen interns display their projects at a culminating project expo.
The Build a Better Book Teen Internship Program engages teens from underrepresented groups in an empathy-driven, professionally structured engineering design internship focused on the design and fabrication of accessible products for children who are blind or visually impaired. Participating teens..

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Virtual Poster Session

Browse the 2022 NSF ITEST PI Meeting Posters.

Take Flight


Visit Poster

Image of Take Flight Poster with details on the project
Take Flight is a free adaptable school curriculum program developed by Learning Scientists at CAST, the organization that founded Universal Design for Learning (UDL), funded by the National Science Foundation. Through Take Flight, teachers middle school teacher have access to the curriculum, tools..

Fostering STEM identify development through localized engineering for LGBTQ+ youth displaced by housing insecurity


Visit Poster

Image
The project will develop and research a model for engaging LGBTQ+ youth experiencing housing insecurity in an engineering education program. This research program explicitly broadens engineering and STEM participation through a three-year Design-Based Research study. The team will collaboratively..

Developing Hands-on Virtual Reality Science Laboratory Experiences


Visit Poster

Image
We recently published our first paper, entitled “Framework For Scalable Content Development In Hands-on Virtual And Mixed Reality Science Labs describing the technical features and preliminary usability data of our mixed-reality science lab system (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9815945). This..

Catalyzing Inclusive STEM Experience All Year Round (CISTEME365)


Visit Poster

Logo showing how CISTEME365's 3 pillars of IDEA teams, STEM clubs, and Summer camps enable more students to pursue STEM majors/careers.
The CISTEME365 project headquartered at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign hypothesizes that experiences with cutting-edge technology must exist all year-round to effect significant improvement. Thus, the fundamental project goal is to enable middle and high school Underrepresented Students..

Preparing Students for the New Manufacturing Economy: An Integrative Learning Approach


Visit Poster

CTE Manufacturing Cycle
This project advances a Career & Technical Education employing a Horizontal Learning Model (HLM) integrates knowledge/skills across multiple technology areas within an authentic practice. The HLM organizes learning expansively through a series of graduated projects that allows students to..

Collaborative Research: Expanding Socio-Environmental Science Investigations with Geospatial Technologies in High Schools


Visit Poster

Screenshot of student-created map following investigation of trash on school campus
This project expands from a single site into a multi-university, multi-school teacher professional development and curriculum development initiative for geospatial integration into science, social studies, and STEM courses. Student outcomes addressed include spatial thinking and reasoning and STEM..

Connecting Students with Autism to Geographic Information Science & Technology Careers


Visit Poster

GIST Participants
The goal of this project is to develop an innovative, research-based workforce development model for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder that (1) increases student self-regulation, interest, and motivation in Geographic Information Science & Technology (GIST), (2) expands students’ understanding..

Partnership to provide technology and cyber-security experiences to Alabama Black Belt through mobile application development


Visit Poster

ITEST-Alabama Program Image
This ITEST-Alabama (Developing and Testing Innovations: DTI) project aims to advance efforts to better understand and promote practices that increase minority high school students' motivations and capacities to pursue STEM careers. This project engages students in hands-on field experience..

Robot-Mediated Learning: Exploring School-Deployed Collaborative Robots


Visit Poster

a child tele-operating a robot and walking with friends
Project Overview: Advance robot-mediated learning in schools and investigate how collaborative tele-robots can facilitate optimal learning experiences.

Build a Better Book Teen Internships: Connecting Technical Work to Social Needs


Visit Poster

Teen interns display their projects at a culminating project expo.
The Build a Better Book Teen Internship Program engages teens from underrepresented groups in an empathy-driven, professionally structured engineering design internship focused on the design and fabrication of accessible products for children who are blind or visually impaired. Participating teens..

Displaying 1 - 10 of 92
Mobile Version