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Build IT: Girls Building Information Technology Fluency Through Design
In Alameda County, California, 150 middle school female students are learning about communications technology, engaging in software design and creating small mobile devices by working on projects as design partners with software engineers.
Urban Ecology, Information Technology, and Inquiry Science for Students and Teachers
In Boston, 100 middle and high school teachers and 100-400 of their students are developing, evaluating and disseminating IT materials for integration into field-based urban ecology modules.
Invention Factory
Four hundred grade 8-12 students in Honolulu, Hawaii are learning about and creating electronic adaptive devices that meet the needs of persons with disabilities and the elderly in the community.
The SUCCEED Apprenticeship Program
One hundred 9th grade students in the communities of Durham and Orange Counties in North Carolina learn computer modeling and simulation, and participate in Apprenticeships on four projects: National Digital Science Library (meta tagging and web design), Digital Durham (postcard database), SUCCEED (website design/web applications) and Sigma Xi (web support).
Highly Interactive, Fun Internet Virtual Environments in Science (HI-FIVES)
Seventy five teachers and guidance counselors in the Research Triangle, Piedmont, and Eastern areas of North Carolina are developing Web-based games that will bring biotechnology, genomics, GIS, nanotechnology, and robotics concepts into their classrooms. 120 students participate in the program.
SPIRIT: Silicon Prairie Initiative on Robotics in IT
One hundred and five grade 7-8 science and mathematics teachers in the Omaha public schools integrate wireless technology, signal processing, control systems, digital logic, and programming into problem-based instructional activities.
DataTools: Tools for Data Analysis in the Middle School Classroom
Seventy five middle-school teachers access and analyze Earth Science data sets, use data analysis tools (IT) and adapt their curriculum to these resources engaging 150 middle-school students in summer workshops.
SoBRO TEC
One hundred and eighty high school students in the South Bronx area of New York City develop technological fluidity by exploring products of urban design that involve IT systems and networks such as transit systems, parks and recreation; exploring film and performance technology and music production and architectural modeling technology.
Crime Scene Information Technology (CSIT)
Sixty teachers from New York City public schools, who will offer instruction to 5,300 students, develop "mystery modules" and kits using the content and technologies of forensic science. 300 students participate in summer camp intensives, field trips to forensic labs, and a final symposium.
SeaTech: Underserved Teens Hooked on Ocean Technology!
One hundred and twenty middle and high school students in the Capistrano Valley area of California are learning to use technology to track and analyze the acoustic behaviors of whales and dolphins and conduct an acoustic population census in California, the Bering Sea and the Southern Ocean.