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Dr. Kimberly Scott is the principal investigator and creator of a National Science Foundation-funded ITEST project COMPUGIRLS, an innovative technology program designed to teach girls of color how to use technology to bring about social change. She was concerned with the low participation of young women from higher needs school districts in STEM, so Scott developed COMPUGIRLS from a program she initiated at Hofstra University in New York.

Jonathan Santiago, co-founder and managing director of STEM2GETHER, describes his experience working with ITEST project GreenFab and teaching advanced technical concepts to students in the Bronx.This article was also published on Live Science.

ITEST project Bridging the Gap was profiled in this video article by the New Learning Times (Columbia University).

The ITEST Research Study, Predicting STEM Career Choice from Computational Indicators of Student Engagement within Middle School Mathematics Classes, is featured in August 2014 Scientific American article, "The Science of Learning." The article details efforts to bring more rigorous science to classrooms and research that is showing that our intuitions about education may be wrong.

ITEST project TECHFIT's summer professional development program for middle school educators was recently featured on WCSC-TV Charleston news! The news clip features interviews with project team members and participating educators as they share how the project is bringing fitness and STEM together through innovative and fun technology-based fitness games that students create.

The Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center, the National Science Foundation, and the Marine Technology Society's (MTS) ROV Committee hosted their 13th Annual International Student ROV Competition June 26-28, 2014 at Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary (TBNMS) in Alpena, MI, USA.Sixty teams representing middle schools, high schools, home schools, after-school groups, community colleges, and universities from 18 different states and

The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) has hosted this annual Conference and Expo for over three decades and it has become the premier forum in which to learn, exchange ideas and survey the field of education technology.Part idea incubator and part collaborative workspace, ISTE’s conference brings educators of all types and grade levels together to share discoveries and develop solutions for their greatest challenges—all

Check out these upcoming presentations at NSTA, AERA, ASEE and ISTE. Click on the PDFs for more details about each in the handouts.AERATechnology-Enhanced Agency for Community Engagement ● Presenter: Bob Coulter (Missouri Botanical Garden)Elements of design-based science teaching that affect middle school students’ motivation ● Presenter: Brett D. Jones (Virginia Tech)Examining the Relationship Between Educational Goals, Self-Efficacy, and

Congratulations are in order to Kimberly Scott, a long time ITEST community member, and founder of COMPUGIRLS, for being named a STEM Access Champion of Change at the White House. The Champion of Change honors people who are working to support and accelerate STEM opportunities for African American students, schools, and communities.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected EDC to continue its role as the resource center for the ITEST (Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers) program.In its nine-year tenure (2003–2012) leading the previous ITEST resource center, EDC provided highly regarded technical support to 195 ITEST projects nationwide, shared key ITEST findings through online and print products and events, and established a vibrant ITEST