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December 2024 - ITEST Program Dashboard Announcement
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STELAR is pleased to present the new ITEST Data Dashboard, developed to provide access to data compiled from six years of our annual ITEST and new project surveys. The Dashboard is divided into four sections, each dealing with a different aspect of ITEST work—a searchable resource of projects, focus areas, partnerships, and data on youth participants. It makes it simple to find the information you need for proposals, reports, or any other purpose
December 2024 - PI Meeting Update & STELAR Events
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The ITEST PI meeting in May was the highlight of our year, and it is still very present in the minds of the STELAR team! We invite you to visit our revised online program to access the plenary session recordings and slides, working group summaries, legislative visit recaps, and photos from the event.
What is a career anyway? What does STEM career education look like from PreK–12?
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The 2024 NSF ITEST PI Meeting engaged the ITEST community in an examination of project implementation through the lens of the three program pillars: (1) Innovative Use of Technology in Teaching and Learning; (2) Partnerships for Career and Workforce Preparation; and (3) Strategies for Equity in STEM Education. Discussions across the two days raised topics of interest and challenges felt by projects across these pillars. Questions related to
Introducing STELAR’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility Resource Library
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The ITEST program’s support of the research and development of models that build K-12 students’ capacity to participate in STEM and ICT has been demonstrated over the past 21 years. It is this history that has highlighted the necessity for STELAR to prioritize being both anticipatory and responsive to the needs of the increasingly diverse K-12 student population in the US. STELAR’s catalog of resources cultivating an ethic of equity provides
STELAR Newsletter - April 2024
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Celebrate National Robotics Week
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It’s engineering, and it’s programming, and it’s inspiring—it’s National Robotics Week! From April 6–14, there will be in-person and virtual events for students from preschool to college age to introduce and celebrate robotics and STEM-related learning. Since 2010, the organizers of National Robotics Week (RoboWeek) have promoted events, activities, and media designed to showcase the wide variety of robots and their many real-world applications
STELAR Newsletter - March 2024
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Celebrate Women's History Month
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March is Women’s History Month, and this year’s theme is “Women Who Advocate for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.” No one exemplifies this better than the women of STELAR and the women who work on the hundreds of ITEST projects STELAR has supported since 2003. “Strategies for equity in STEM education” is one of the pillars of ITEST, and ensuring equitable STEM education for young women and girls has been the goal of many ITEST projects. (See
Technical Intuition – Preparing Students for Work at the Human Technology Frontier
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Joyce Malyn-Smith, STELAR Co-PI We live in a world driven by technology, where discovery and innovation occur at the intersections of disciplines. If we want our students to be the discovers and innovators of tomorrow, we need to prepare them with the skills found at those intersections. To succeed in this “ human technology frontier ,” students will need to be ready to use tools and processes that integrate both technical and academic skills and
STELAR Newsletter - February 2024
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