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How Baltimore Is Growing Its Tech Gurus From Scratch
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The Digital Harbor Foundation, recent recipient of ITEST funding, was featured last month in Politico Magazine's "What Works" series. Digital Harbor, a non-profit maker-space laboratory located in Baltimore, is teaching area youth to learn STEM by doing, and having fun: Researchers who’ve studied Digital Harbor kids recently found that teens who’ve gone through its introductory course show a 10-percent increase in “divergent thinking” – a measure
Fall 2017 Newsletter
NewsletterFall 2017, Volume 4, Issue 6
Project Spotlight: Building STEM Identity and Career Interests in Native American Students By Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and Remote Sensing Technologies
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In exploring the summer activies of ITEST projects, STELAR recently caught up with Karla Eitel of the University of Idaho, Prinicpal Investigator for the Building STEM Identity and Career Interests in Native American Students By Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and Remote Sensing Technologies project. How did your ITEST project impact youth this summer? Our project exposed 40 Native and rural youth to careers in Fisheries, Forestry and Fire
Project Spotlight: Strengthening the STEM Pipeline for Elementary School African Americans, Hispanics, and Girls by Scaling Up Summer Engineering Experiences
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As part of our series exploring what ITEST projects have been up to in the summer of 2017, we learned about the work of Strengthening the STEM Pipeline for Elementary School African Americans, Hispanics, and Girls by Scaling Up Summer Engineering Experiences led by Principal Investigator Karl Reid of the National Society of Black Engineers. How did your ITEST project impact youth this summer? Our ITEST grant provides research funding to scale up
Project Spotlight: Promoting Robotic Design and Entrepreneurship Experiences among Students and Teachers
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As part of our series exploring the work of ITEST projects over the summer months, STELAR connected with Prinicipal Investigator Vikram Kapila of New York University's Tandon School of Engineering on his project, "Promoting Robotic Design and Entrepreneurship Experiences among Students and Teachers." How did your ITEST project impact youth this summer? Our ITEST project provided hands-on learning opportunities to youth using authentic tools and
Project Spotlight: Understanding the Role of Gender in Engaging the Interest of Girls in Computer Science
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STELAR recently connected with Principal Investigator Jody Clarke-Midura of Utah State University to find out what her project, Understanding the Role of Gender in Engaging the Interest of Girls in Computer Science, did over the summer. How did your ITEST project impact youth this summer? During the summer of 2017, we conducted five camps on programming apps with MIT’s App Inventor. One camp provided high school youth with training in mentoring
May 2017 Newsletter
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What does it mean to be literate and equitable in engineering?
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About 50 researchers and practitioners from around the country convened at the University of Texas at San Antonio on May 2-3, 2017, to set an agenda for research and practice towards making engineering and engineering education more equitable.
Project Spotlight: Authentic art making as a vehicle for connecting to STEM learning and careers
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STELAR had the opportunity to catch up with Susan Rodgerson of Artists For Humanity, Principal Investigator for the Authentic Art Making as a Vehicle for Connecting to STEM Learning and Careers project. Artists for Humanity and Education Development Center are collaborating to develop and study a model for using authentic art-making to promote high school students' interest in STEM learning and STEM careers. The project builds on a highly
ITEST Projects Featured in the Third Annual STEM for All Video Showcase
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On May 15-22 STELAR joins together with six other NSF-funded resource centers including CADRE, CAISE, CIRCL, the CS10K Community, and MSPnet to host a cross-center online video event to showcase cutting-edge NSF work. The 2017 STEM for All Video Showcase: Research & Design for Impact is the third-annual showcase, with more than 170 projects presenting three-minute videos of their innovative work on broadening participation and access to STEM. We