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National Robotics in 4-H: Workforce Skills for the 21st Century
Robotics and GPS/GIS in 4-H: Workforce Skills for the 21st Century is a-five year scale-up project to use 4-H clubs to prepare middle school youth for the STEM workplace. The project builds on and extends an existing research-based ITEST project by developing and testing new national curricula to
Bio-ITEST: New Frontiers in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
One hundred and twenty five high school teachers and their 3,750 students (with 90 scientists and 15 career counselors) from the Pacific Northwest use bioinformatics to learn about bioinformatics careers, explore biology, and conduct research.
M-SOS-W: Middle Schoolers Out to Save the World
M-SOS-W: Middle Schoolers out to Save the World in this project, approximately 600 sixth graders from seven middle schools in Louisiana, Maine, Texas and Vermont are monitoring home energy use under supervision of their (14) teachers. The data are being used to develop optimum scenarios for
Promoting STEM Career Interest in the Classroom: An Exploratory Study Linking Teacher Professional Development with Changes in Teaching Practices
This ITEST research study examined over 50 ITEST teacher professional development projects to better understand their role in teacher implementation of STEM workplace technologies.
Building IT and Career Self-Efficacy in Young Women by Entering and Measuring the Universe: The Universe Quest
The University of California's Space Sciences Laboratory, in collaboration with ASA Academy and Community Science Center, Girl Scouts of Northern California, and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, will implement the Universe Quest (UQ) project. Additional project partners include Sightspeed
ACTIVATE: Advancing Computing and Technology Interest and innoVation through Teacher Education
Approximately 100 northern Appalachian high school students and their STEM teachers learn computational thinking and computer programming using Alice and Java.
Crossing Boundaries and Exploring Biodiversity Conservation Using Information Technologies
Crossing Boundaries will provide middle and high school students with the knowledge, skills, motivation, and inspiration to use information and communication technologies (ICT) in addressing biodiversity conservation issues in regional and international contexts. The project will entail curriculum
Prime the Pipeline Project (P3): Putting Knowledge to Work
A group of 60 10th grade students and 40 high school math and science teachers in Arizona, as members of scientific villages, explore integrated STEM and business-type problems with mentorship by college students, faculty, scientists, and professionals.
GET SET Global: Education for Tomorrow in Science, Engineering, and Technology
This project focuses research on understanding what it takes to get underrepresented students to succeed in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) as its central goal. It is implementing and testing an instructional model for 2,000 6-8th grade students in ten Washington, DC public
COMPUGIRLS: A Culturally Relevant Technology Program for Girls
Arizona State University (ASU) in collaboration with Phoenix Union High School District, Scottsdale Union High School District, Roosevelt District, Boys and Girls Club of the East Valley-Sacaton, Intel, Applied Learning Technologies Institute, Dynamic Educational Leadership for Teachers and