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What is a career anyway? What does STEM career education look like from PreK–12?

14 November, 2024 Blog

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

17 July, 2024 Blog

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

Celebrate National Robotics Week

08 April, 2024 Highlight

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

Celebrate Women's History Month

08 March, 2024 Highlight

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

04 April, 2024 Blog

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

Celebrate Black History Month

05 February, 2024 Highlight

February is Black History Month, when we honor and celebrate the accomplishments and contributions of some great champions of STEM—“Hidden Figures” who are hidden no more. We also celebrate by carrying their legacy forward into the future. A central goal of the NSF-ITEST program is to broaden participation in STEM fields by students from traditionally underrepresented and historically marginalized groups. Over the years, ITEST projects have

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