CAPSULE: CAPStone Unique Learning Experience

2009 - 2013

CAPSULE, a capstone project-based learning model, brings the STEM/IT workforce experience to high school students and teachers through industry-driven projects and multimedia production. Materials developed at the Museum of Science and real-world problems solicited from local industry are formulated

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ITEST Convening: Advancing Research on Youth Motivation in STEM

2010 - 2013

The ITEST Learning Resource Center at EDC hosted a convening designed to develop a theoretical framework to guide future research on youth motivation in STEM with a particular emphasis on populations most underrepresented in STEM. Two guiding questions were be the focus of the event: What is

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Technology at the Crossroads

2004 - 2007

Two hundred and thirty five middle school students (with a focus on girls) in Boston, Massachusetts use Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Geographic Positioning Systems (GPS) and HTML programming to conduct environmental research.

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Robotics: Fundamentals of Information Technology and Engineering

2004 - 2007

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

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Community Science Investigators (CSI)

2009 - 2012

Community Science Investigators (CSI) is an ITEST Strategies project that brings together the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in offering year-long, career-focused technology experiences for 360 middle school youth and 36 teachers in an out-of-school setting

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The Science of Small Things

2007 - 2011

More than 100 middle and high school students from Lowell, Massachusetts engage in hands-on nanotechnology related experiments facilitated by project staff, UMass Lowell students and faculty, and industry professionals.

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