This project aims to adapt the Geospatial Semester for Career and Technical Education in a large urban district through effective teacher professional development and lesson design.
Data Jam engages students in the process of exploring, analyzing, and summarizing long-term data about nearby ecosystems that are the subject of extensive long-term study by LTER.
In this project students use augmented reality to learn science content and then create augmented reality to demonstrate their learning and understanding. By exposing students to AR in core science courses all students take (such as biology), students typically underrepresented in STEM and computer science will increase interest and motivation to explore those career pathways.
The AAMASE project is developing and researching a model for engaging high-school-aged African American women from low-income families in STEM-related making and entrepreneurship educational programs.
The major objectives of the UNLV ITEST project are to: 1) enhance secondary female students’ academic self-concept in computing and engineering fields through a constructivist learning environment; 2) enhance secondary female students’ knowledge, skills, and interests in these fields; 3) increase the number of secondary female students’ participation in STEM competitions; 4) investigate the factors that influence female students’ career choices in STEM/ICT fields.
A STEM education program at the interface of biology and engineering, namely sensory biology and robotics. This program for high school students and in-service teachers engages them in activities that examine the interrelatedness between science and engineering using innovative technologies.
BOAST is an out-of-school time online engineering program to support Baltimore City high school students develop concrete goals of becoming engineers by supporting foundational math skills and math self-efficacy through hands-on design and application.
We are investigating a “convening AI” that brings together teachers and students to troubleshoot around machine-selected excerpts of student work-in-progress. Our initial domain is middle school virtual robot programming.
The Connected Spaces (C/S) (DRL #2048852) project is researching and developing a technological toolkit and design framework to connect youth makers with peers, mentors, and technical assistance. Makers tinker, design, create, and invent, often working with peers in makerspaces equipped with traditional materials and tools as well as with 3-D printers, electronics, computer design and other technologies. The project is designed to connect prospective and geographically distributed middle and high school makers who are underrepresented in STEM with peers, mentors, and technical assistance.
The World Smarts STEM Challenge is a virtual exchange that supports STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education in the United States and Ghana. Middle and high school students from Washington, DC, and senior secondary school students from across Ghana come together virtually to solve global issues in their communities with STEM solutions inspired by the UN Sustainable Development Goals.