High School

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PI Meeting 2022 One-pager -Lehigh team_draft_20220-10-20.docx

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Collaborative Research: Expanding Socio-Environmental Science Investigations with Geospatial Technologies in High Schools

Thomas Hammond — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 15:13:54 +0000

Collaborative Research: Expanding Socio-Environmental Science Investigations with Geospatial Technologies in High Schools

Thomas Hammond Tue, 11/01/2022 - 11:13

Collaborative Research: Expanding Socio-Environmental Science Investigations with Geospatial Technologies in High Schools

This project expands from a single site into a multi-university, multi-school teacher professional development and curriculum development initiative for geospatial integration into science, social studies, and STEM courses. Student outcomes addressed include spatial thinking and reasoning and STEM college and career interests.

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NSF One Pager

NSF Award Abstract

NSF Award Abstract for SESI-ExpAND project

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Project website for SESI-ExpAND team

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Scaling, Expanding, and Iterating Innovations (SEI)

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Chemistry

Connecting Students with Autism to Geographic Information Science & Technology Careers

Environmental sciences

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Connecting Students with Autism to Geographic Information Science & Technology Careers

Jason Painter — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:28:59 +0000

Connecting Students with Autism to Geographic Information Science & Technology Careers

Jason Painter Tue, 11/01/2022 - 10:28

Connecting Students with Autism to Geographic Information Science & Technology Careers

The goal of this project is to develop an innovative, research-based workforce development model for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder that (1) increases student self-regulation, interest, and motivation in Geographic Information Science & Technology (GIST), (2) expands students’ understanding of GIST/STEM concepts and skill sets, and (3) certifies students as FAA Drone Pilots (FAA Part 107).

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NSF One Pager

NSF Award Abstract

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2048937&HistoricalAwards=false

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Geosciences

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Partnership to provide technology and cyber-security experiences to Alabama Black Belt through mobile application development

Jung Won Hur — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 02:45:56 +0000

Partnership to provide technology and cyber-security experiences to Alabama Black Belt through mobile application development

Jung Won Hur Mon, 10/31/2022 - 22:45

Partnership to provide technology and cyber-security experiences to Alabama Black Belt through mobile application development

This ITEST-Alabama (Developing and Testing Innovations: DTI) project aims to advance efforts to better understand and promote practices that increase minority high school students' motivations and capacities to pursue STEM careers. This project engages students in hands-on field experience, laboratory/project-based entrepreneurship tasks and mentorship experiences in fields of computing, specifically in cybersecurity. This project, based on the use of a Project Based Learning (PBL) environment with high school students, is a partnership between Tuskegee University, Auburn University, a rural and an urban school district in the historic Black Belt region of the state of Alabama, and Tuskegee University Engineering and Computer Science Alumni Associations. The focus of the partnership is to recruit annually a cohort of forty ethnically and racially diverse high school students from the partnering school districts for immersion in a STEM intensive PBL four-week STEM Summer Academy hosted by Tuskegee University, followed by one-semester in-school training. The Academy is designed to provide 40 rising 10th and 11th grade students and ten high-school teachers annually (150 over the life of the three-year grant) with far-reaching technological experiences through the exciting exploration of secured mobile application development under a PBL framework.

The key questions being addressed are: (1) To what extent does the innovative four-week technology-oriented experience in a PBL environment followed by one-semester in-school training impact minority high school students’ knowledge, interest, motivation, and attitudes towards STEM-related careers? (2) In what ways does the collaborative small group experience with mentor teachers affect minority high school students’ interest and awareness of STEM-related careers? (3) To what extent do the effects of the program persist after its completion? Do they lead to STEM-related post-secondary plans? (4) What instructional and mentoring strategies can be effectively integrated to boost minority high school students’ knowledge, interest, and attitudes towards STEM-related careers? A mixed-method design with both qualitative and quantitative data will be used to examine the students' motivation and attitude towards STEM in a PBL environment.

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NSF One Pager

ITEST-Alabama 2022 Summary

NSF Award Abstract

Award Abstract # 2048884

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Year 1

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Robot-Mediated Learning 2022

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Robot-Mediated Learning: Exploring School-Deployed Collaborative Robots

Veronica Ahumada-Newhart — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 01:05:06 +0000

Robot-Mediated Learning: Exploring School-Deployed Collaborative Robots

Veronica Ahuma… Mon, 10/31/2022 - 21:05

Robot-Mediated Learning: Exploring School-Deployed Collaborative Robots

Project Overview: Advance robot-mediated learning in schools and investigate how collaborative tele-robots can facilitate optimal learning experiences.

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NSF One Pager

NSF Award Abstract

Robot-Mediated Learning

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UC Davis Health, Technology and Social Connectedness Lab

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Year 2

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Build a Better Book Teen Internships Project Summary

Interdisciplinary

Life sciences

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Build a Better Book Teen Internships: Connecting Technical Work to Social Needs

Stacey Forsyth — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 21:02:54 +0000

Build a Better Book Teen Internships: Connecting Technical Work to Social Needs

Stacey Forsyth Mon, 10/31/2022 - 17:02

Build a Better Book Teen Internships: Connecting Technical Work to Social Needs

The Build a Better Book Teen Internship Program engages teens from underrepresented groups in an empathy-driven, professionally structured engineering design internship focused on the design and fabrication of accessible products for children who are blind or visually impaired. Participating teens gain technical and STEM workplace skills, and broaden their perception of engineering as a social and collaborative discipline with potential to improve people’s lives.

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NSF One Pager

NSF Award Abstract

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2049109&HistoricalAwards=false

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http://buildabetterbook.org

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Year 2

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PI Meeting 2022 One-pager.pdf

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My STEM Story: Scaling STEM Motivation Through Digital Storytelling and Near Peer Relationships

Ed Madison — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 15:01:16 +0000

My STEM Story: Scaling STEM Motivation Through Digital Storytelling and Near Peer Relationships

Ed Madison Mon, 10/31/2022 - 11:01

My STEM Story: Scaling STEM Motivation Through Digital Storytelling and Near Peer Relationships

The My STEM Story project aims to enhance the identity-based motivation of diverse high school students through their engagement with and reflection on the authentic digital stories of diverse near-peer mentors paving their way in a post-secondary STEM pathway.

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NSF One Pager

NSF Award Abstract

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1759442

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PI Meeting 2022 One-pager_Josset.pdf

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Chemistry

Environmental sciences

Life sciences

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Engaging Young Black and Latino Students in Data Science Through Water Security

Laureline Josset — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 05:49:22 +0000

Engaging Young Black and Latino Students in Data Science Through Water Security

Laureline Josset Sat, 10/29/2022 - 01:49

Engaging Young Black and Latino Students in Data Science Through Water Security

Communities of color across the nation face increasing challenges with affordable access to safe drinking water. Using data science to explore why, where and how this is happening, and what is being done about it, provides a powerful vehicle for the engagement of students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and to help develop a digital work force with appropriate representation from the affected communities. The America’s Water Education (AWE) project will test whether a data science integrated curriculum, using visualization, exploration, and modeling/analysis of water data in an age-appropriate way, can engage young Black and Latino students and increase their interest in data science. The project will comprise approximately 800 8th through 11th-grade students and their science and mathematics teachers from the Eagle Academies of Harlem and Southeast Queens, New York. The project will seek to: 1) increase students’ likelihood of choosing a data science career, generally, or applied to water security, specifically; 2) improve students’ science, technology, and mathematics competencies, senses of confidence, and self-efficacy through an integrated core curriculum, aligned to co-curricular water security data-rich projects and water exhibitions; and 3) increase the effectiveness of the academies’ teachers to implement and assess the project’s integrated middle and high school core curriculum and co-curriculum.

The project's overarching research question is: How can middle and high school young Black and Latino students be prepared to acquire the necessary knowledge/skills in data science and water security so that, if they choose, they become part of the next generation of data scientists meeting the needs of the water-dependent society? Student-centered learning opportunities will involve reliable, adaptable, intriguing, and wholly accessible data platform technologies as staple tools for water and data sciences. Students will explore and probe information through inquiry and questioning by selecting and manipulating the hosted data sets, like publicly available data and platforms of the U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Department of Agriculture. Linking data across science and mathematics with technology will lead to breakthroughs in their understanding of both data and water security. A systematic assessment at different grade levels will allow for meaningful findings to be shared with educators and researchers. AWE’s data platforms and data sets, along with its curricular and co-curricular educational materials, will be accessible to teachers and students across The Eagle Academy Network of Schools and with 750+ New York City and New York State secondary schools; single-gender schools within the US; and teachers and students in co-educational settings who are interested in data science and/or water security. Locally constructed data sets and accessible national data sets will make the content relevant and interesting across the country. This project is funded by the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program, which supports projects that build understandings of practices, program elements, contexts and processes contributing to increasing students' knowledge and interest in STEM and information and communication technology (ICT) careers.

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NSF One Pager

NSF Award Abstract

NSF award project 2048958

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https://water.columbia.edu/research-projects/americas-water-education

Middle School

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CASCADE: Engaging Adolescents through Collaboration on Simulated STEM Career Sc…

Data Science

Environmental sciences

Interdisciplinary

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CASCADE: Engaging Adolescents through Collaboration on Simulated STEM Career Scenarios and Mathematics Activities

Daniel Heck — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 21:11:06 +0000

CASCADE: Engaging Adolescents through Collaboration on Simulated STEM Career Scenarios and Mathematics Activities

Daniel Heck Fri, 10/28/2022 - 17:11

CASCADE: Engaging Adolescents through Collaboration on Simulated STEM Career Scenarios and Mathematics Activities

We create and study virtual simulations of peer collaboration in STEM fields, designed for youth in informal learning environments. Practice with the simulations will help teens from underrepresented groups build collaborative skills and career interest in STEM fields, especially those that use mathematics and require strong teamwork.

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NSF One Pager

CASCADE Overview

NSF Award Abstract

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Middle School

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Year 2

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