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Promoting Students' Data Literacy through the Creation of Interactive Multimodal Representations of Biometric Data
2023
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2027
This project will promote data literacy in high school students by engaging them in learning about the Quantified Self -- the practice of using technology to track and reflect on one?s own biological, behavioral, physical, and/or emotional data. Learning activities will be designed to spark a broad
Embodied Interactive Environment for Advancing Data Sensing and Computational Thinking Skills in the Built Environment
2023
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2027
As the construction industry gears toward adopting data sensing technologies, there is a demand for creating and sustaining a workforce with skills for implementing the technologies and analyzing the resulting data to support decision-making. It is also essential to improve awareness of this Science
Making Mentors: Enhancing Access to STEM Careers for Autistic Youth through Mentorship Programs in Makerspaces
2023
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2026
People on the autism spectrum are very capable of leading productive lives and have interests and abilities that can enable them to make valuable contributions to their communities. For example, research shows that young people with autism who go to college choose science, technology, engineering
AI for the Workforce of Tomorrow: Attending to Ethics and Collaboration in Learning Artificial Intelligence for High School Aged Youth
2023
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2026
As AI becomes increasingly integral to a broad range of industries, it is critical that the field develops equitable and justice-oriented instructional models that can support youth to integrate technical knowledge about AI with ethical principles for AI development and deployment. This project will
Supporting Rightful Presence in Museum Spaces: Youth as Participatory Designers of Indigenous Mixed Reality Science Exhibits
2023
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2026
This project will address the ongoing marginalization of Indigenous communities in informal science learning spaces by developing and studying a model that strengthens Indigenous youths? disposition toward, and capacity for STEM pathways. Science centers and museums play an important role in
Building STEM Skills by Integrating Data Literacy and Text Analytics in English Language Arts
2023
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2026
Ubiquitous computing and new technologies are infusing fields that have not historically been identified as STEM-related, such as the humanities, with new tools and practices involving data. This data infusion is opening up new opportunities to use data literacy instruction to augment instruction
Puffins: Exploring how narrative, data science, and artificial intelligence enhance the study of ecology in middle school
2023
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2025
The study of puffins can provide a fascinating subject area for the integrated learning of data and ecosystems. Once hunted to local extinction, puffins have made a dramatic yet fragile comeback and been re-established to historic nesting islands in mid-coast Maine. This project combines a
COVID-Inspired Data Science Education through Epidemiology
2023
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2024
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic provides a starting point for empowering young people to understand uses of data science through epidemiology. Through this program, 400 underserved youth nationwide will engage in a 15-hour out-of-school multimedia program centered on a project-developed text, The Case
FuSe-TG: Electronic-Photonic Systems-on-Chip for Computation, Communication and Sensing
2023
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2024
The research vision is to create a breakthrough in the capability of future semiconductor technologies - to develop devices, circuits, systems, process, design flow and tools, and train students, in a novel platform for electronic-photonic systems-on-chip (EPSoCs) in advanced CMOS foundry processes
Enhancing Underrepresented Student Engagement in STEM through Mentoring and Family Involvement
2022
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2027
This collaborative project is an informal science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) intervention that will uniquely combine partnerships between STEM and education faculty at the University of Houston (UH) with mentorship from the participants’ families and UH STEM undergraduate