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Understanding the Science Connected to Technology (USCT)
Eighty teachers and 758 students in the Fargo, North Dakota, area assume leadership roles as citizen volunteers and conduct surface water quality monitoring activities, analyze data and disseminate results to enhance local decision-making capacity. Training includes collection, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of scientific data.
Inquiring with GIS (I-GIS) Project: A Partnership Between Scientists and Educators
This comprehensive ITEST project will provide sixty middle and high school teachers with an introduction to Geographic Information System (GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) technologies. The project, which brings together a leadership team of educators, science researchers and experts in
Robotics: Fundamentals of Information Technology and Engineering
TechBoston and Northeastern University are working collaboratively in this comprehensive project to integrate an innovative robotics curriculum into science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) courses in the Boston Public Schools and in other racially diverse and economically
Project LA COSTA
Project LA COSTA was a three-year, youth-based ITEST project sponsored by the Texas State University - San Marcos. The project created a computer science academy to provide IT experiences for 250 Hispanic students during their 8th-10th grades across 5 central and south Texas school districts
CyberTech Computer Science Program to Prepare Underrepresented Students for Careers in the Sciences
In Georgia, 600 high school students (with a focus on African Americans, Hispanics, women, and first-generation college-bound youth) in grades 10-12, and 60 teachers from 10 high schools are participating in intensive computer science/programming courses from grades 10-12 including video game development, animation and programming.
Nature Works Studios
Forty five students (with a focus on African Americans, Latinos, and girls) in Chicago are learning environmental science and using IT to share what they’ve learned with peers and visitors to the Nature Museum.
Comprehensive Information Technology Education in Rural Appalachia (CITERA)
Comprehensive Information Technology Education in Rural Appalachia (CITERA) emphasizes career and educational pathways and provides information technology (IT) skills and knowledge to North Central West Virginia 7th through 9th grade educators and students. CITERA seeks to meet the current need for
National Middle School Aerospace Scholars (NaMAS)
National Middle School Aerospace Scholars (NaMAS) will provide both teachers and students in eight states the opportunity to learn about and experience information technologies and how they are used within the context of STEM applications in the exciting high technology aerospace industry. NaMAS
Building IT Skills among Inner City Youth in North Philadelphia through Development of a Community Geographic Information System
Two hundred and seventy female, Hispanic, and African American students in Philadelphia, PA are learning how to use Geographic Information System (GIS) technology in Spanish and English, to develop spatial analysis and cartographic and design skills to learn about and map their community, thus creating a community-based GIS.
Bioinformatics: The Rutgers Initiative in Teacher Enhancement (BRITE)
One hundred and fifty five high school teachers and 5,500 students in New Jersey extract DNA from worm specimens and access bioinformatics resources online to analyze the DNA sequences and submit their results to an international database.