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Take Flight


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Take Flight is a free adaptable school curriculum program developed by Learning Scientists at CAST, the organization that founded Universal Design for Learning (UDL), funded by the National Science Foundation. Through Take Flight, teachers middle school teacher have access to the curriculum, tools..

Using drone technology, communal motivation, and strength-based approaches to engage middle school female students from rural areas in STEM

Award Number
2146613
Project Status
Active
Principal Investigator(s)
Amanda Bastoni

Fostering STEM identify development through localized engineering for LGBTQ+ youth displaced by housing insecurity


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The project will develop and research a model for engaging LGBTQ+ youth experiencing housing insecurity in an engineering education program. This research program explicitly broadens engineering and STEM participation through a three-year Design-Based Research study. The team will collaboratively..

Fostering STEM identify development through localized engineering for LGBTQ+ youth displaced by housing insecurity

Award Number
2148739
Project Status
Active
Principal Investigator(s)
Jennifer DeBoer

Developing Hands-on Virtual Reality Science Laboratory Experiences


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We recently published our first paper, entitled “Framework For Scalable Content Development In Hands-on Virtual And Mixed Reality Science Labs describing the technical features and preliminary usability data of our mixed-reality science lab system (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9815945). This..

Developing Hands-on Virtual Reality Science Laboratory Experiences

Award Number
1918045
Project Status
Expired
Principal Investigator(s)
Kambiz Hamadani

Catalyzing Inclusive STEM Experience All Year Round (CISTEME365)


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Logo showing how CISTEME365's 3 pillars of IDEA teams, STEM clubs, and Summer camps enable more students to pursue STEM majors/careers.
The CISTEME365 project headquartered at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign hypothesizes that experiences with cutting-edge technology must exist all year-round to effect significant improvement. Thus, the fundamental project goal is to enable middle and high school Underrepresented Students..

Catalyzing Inclusive STEM Experiences All Year Round (CISTEME365)

Award Number
1850398
Project Status
Active
Principal Investigator(s)
Lynford Goddard

Preparing Students for the New Manufacturing Economy: An Integrative Learning Approach


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CTE Manufacturing Cycle
This project advances a Career & Technical Education employing a Horizontal Learning Model (HLM) integrates knowledge/skills across multiple technology areas within an authentic practice. The HLM organizes learning expansively through a series of graduated projects that allows students to..

Preparing Students for the New Manufacturing Economy: An Integrative Learning Approach

Award Number
1949363 1949439
Project Status
Expired
Principal Investigator(s)
Francis Quek
Sharon Lynn Chu

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


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Screenshot of student-created map following investigation of trash on school campus
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..

Socio-Environmental Science Investigations Using the Geospatial Curriculum Approach with Web Geospatial Information Systems

Award Number
1614216
Project Status
Expired
Principal Investigator(s)
Alec Bodzin

Connecting Students with Autism to Geographic Information Science & Technology Careers


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GIST Participants
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..

Connecting Students with Autism to Geographic Information Science & Technology Careers

Award Number
2048937
Project Status
Expired
Principal Investigator(s)
Jason Painter

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


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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..

Partnership to Provide Technology and Cyber-security Experiences to Alabama Black Belt through Mobile Application Development

Award Number
2048884
Project Status
Active
Principal Investigator(s)
Jay Bhuyan

Robot-Mediated Learning: Exploring School-Deployed Collaborative Robots


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

Robot-Mediated Learning: Exploring School-Deployed Collaborative Robots for Homebound Children

Award Number
2136847
Project Status
Expired
Principal Investigator(s)
Veronica Ahumada-Newhart

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


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Teen interns display their projects at a culminating project expo.
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..

Empathy-Driven Engineering Internships for Teens: Connecting Technical Work to Social Needs

Award Number
2049109
Project Status
Active
Principal Investigator(s)
Tom Yeh

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. DRL-1312022, 1614697 and 1949200. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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