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Based on the promising results of ITEST project The FabLab, the Commonwealth of Virginia provided seed funding to design a laboratory school for advanced manufacturing. Buford Engineering Design Academy, a laboratory school for advanced manufacturing has recently launched. In conjunction with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Sept. 30, National Science Foundation (NSF) leaders, UVa faculty and UVa and Buford students toured the site and saw the school

ITEST project Seeding the Future is featured in this WCVB5 segment on its program that teaches high school youth how urban farming methods that utilize hydroponic technology.

As part of Boston College’s Lynch School of Education College Bound program, ITEST project Seeding the Future helps prepare high school students from Brighton High School, West Roxbury Academy and the Urban Science Academy in West Roxbury for college and beyond. Under the guidance of Mike Barnett, associate professor of Science Education and Technology at the Lynch School, an important focus of the program is to instill a love of science among

Co-sponsored by ITEST project GUTS y Girls, this year's Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) Santa Fe conference, held at the Santa Fe Community College, drew teachers, parents, and girls from private, public, and home schools from around Northern New Mexico. The girls participated in hands-on workshops on topics ranging from emergency medicine to computer science and biology. They also heard from New Mexico professional women about how they got their

ITEST project GUTS y Girls is mentioned as part of a Santa Fe New Mexican article on the Santa Fe Institute and its efforts to increase children's interest in STEM.

On the Santa Fe Radio Cafe, ITEST project GUTS y Girls manager Kathryn Ugoretz and GUTS y Girls student participants Sara Hartse and Celeste Hernandez describe some of the challenges of encouraging young women to pursue career paths in science, technology, engineering, and math.Listen to their interview on the Santa Fe Radio Cafe (February 13, 2013).

GUTS y Girls is a three-year ITEST project designed to attract New Mexico girls to careers in STEM -- fields in which women are historically under-represented. Once-a-month Saturday workshops in Santa Fe will offer girls the opportunity to meet women scientists and professionals, participate in hands-on projects, and learn about career options. Two-week summer workshops are being held in Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and Las Cruces.

ITEST project GUTS y Girls, in partnership with Arizona State University professor Dan Hruschka, has developed a new curriculum to engage students in understanding how computing and complex adaptive systems play an essential role in the social sciences. Geared towards the high school level, the curriculum has students explore questions and test their own assumptions using methods and data from the social sciences and computer modeling in NetLogo

Twenty ITEEA teachers will be selected through a competitive application process to participate in pilot-testing the hybrid professional development institute developed by the Stevens Institute of Technology and ITEEA as part of the ITEST project BUILD IT Scale Up. Selected teachers will attend a full-day face-to-face workshop and complete several online modules. They will then implement the curriculum and provide feedback about the training and

A multidisciplinary team from the UW Colleges of Education, Engineering, and Arts and Sciences to research whether gaming and robotics can be used to teach computational thinking skills to middle school students in culturally sensitive ways through ITEST project Visualization Basics. Visualization Basics team members will train teachers to develop mathematical and scientific lessons that are culturally relevant to their students, support