The Role Models in Elementary Engineering Education has been studying the interactions between elementary students and outreach ambassadors (undergraduate engineering students) in informal outreach setting.  The project used surveys, interviews and classroom video recordings to expand our understandings about how engineering outreach is enacted and how students' perceive that experience.  The findings to date have expanded knowledge about what matters to students and the role they see ambassadors filling.  The project has produced new survey instruments as well as tools that can support tra

This Synthesis project uses meta-analysis and qualitative synthesis to examine the effects of integrating innovative technologies into K-12 STEM education on students’ STEM career-related outcomes, and if and in what ways intervention characteristics and educational settings moderate these effects.

Researcheres and teachers co-design short daily culturally relevant mathematics robot coding activities to increase the interest and improve achievement in mathematics of NYC Black and Latinx students in 1st - 3rd grades.

We designed, developed and implemented an innovative, transmedia curriculum (called CryptoComics) to teach 3rd-5th grade African American females and other afterschool learners about cryptography and cybersecurity and related careers. https://theconversation.com/comic-book-introduces-kids-to-key-concepts-and-careers-in-cybersecurity-171163

Learn about the universally-designed ModelME fraction curriculum with embedded Dream2B game.

This is the poster for the 2022 NSF ITEST Project Directors Meeting for Digital technology integration and engineering contexts to support elementary students' systems thinking

This project uses a new model to promote the development of positive attitudes toward STEM and to increase interest in STEM careers. Science capital and family habitus were documented, and the data were used to develop a model program where youth and their families see science and engineering as something they do for fun, where they feel supported and valued, while promoting STEM career awareness, science identity, and an interest in exploring science and engineering beyond the life of the project.