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ITEST project WNY Genetics in Research Partnership has secured funding to enable teachers and high school students from 13 counties in Western and Central New York to conduct scientific research in bioinformatics during the next three years. Grant money will be used to educate teachers and encourage students to pursue careers in engineering and the sciences.

This article in Scientific American features the ITEST project Predicting STEM Career Choice from Computational Indicators of Student Engagement within Middle School Mathematics Classes. The article details efforts to bring more rigorous science to classrooms and research that is showing that our intuitions about education may be wrong.

In Oakland, California, a team of teachers, professional men and women, and educators from the Chabot Space and Science Center are actively engaged in encouraging girls and young women in math, science, and technology. The Techbridge program provides hands-on opportunities for girls in elementary school through high school to explore these key areas and for teachers to participate in subject-specific professional-development opportunities.

This video produced by Live Science captures the impact and excitement of the Build IT Underwater Robotics Competition on June 3rd, 2009. Robots were designed, built, and run by middle school and high school students. This event hosted by the Stevens Institute of Technology, well known for its ocean-engineering programs.

The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, built in 2000 and named for the late West Virginia senator, is the world's largest fully steerable telescope. Its 100-meter-wide surface area gives it the ability to pick up extremely faint signals from the distant reaches of space. But in 2007, the 16-million-pound telescope was frozen in position. For 2 1/2 months, the telescope recorded data from 70,000 "pointings" that no astronomer had asked for. It

The ITEST Project, Smart Clothing, Smart Girls, summer program was recently featured in the Cornell Chronicle. “We did a test on LED lights to see how we could design them in our garments, and we’ve tested polymers for knee protection for impact,” said Grace Ebert, a ninth grade 4-Her from Ontario County, describing the singer’s apparel needs.Read on to learn more about how the girls used their STEM skills to create fashion designs fom pop-stars

24 middle school students and 11 teachers from across eastern Montana participated in the ITEST Paleo Exploration Project, which linked the group with scientists in the field (literally). Participants discovered that while digging for dinosaurs can be exciting, it's not as easy as the popular movie makes it seem, and sometimes a lot of patience is required to unearth even a single bone.

As part of the Detroit Grand Prix Free Day, on Friday Aug. 29, from 9:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. on Belle Isle in Detroit, approximately a dozen Bosch volunteers are planning a fun and informational day of events for students enrolled in the Detroit-Area Pre-College Engineering Program (DAPCEP) ITEST project. Volunteers will lend their technology and science expertise to engage students in building and racing motorized toy cars and provide

57 students and 18 teachers from 12 different schools attended an event marking the end of ITEST project CREST's five years of programming in local schools. Students presented websites, GIS mapping projects, short documentaries, and recorded oral histories from island citizens--a compendium of student learning as a result of participation in CREST--to Maine representatives.

The National Science Foundation recently gave Tirupalavanam Ganesh, assistant dean for information systems at ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton College of Education, a $1 million grant to pilot the ITEST Learning through Engineering Design and Practice project at two junior high schools in the Mesa Unified School District. Ganesh and his team hope the students will get hooked on technology by using it in innovative and socially relevant ways, he said. Their