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Summer 2016 Newsletter
NewsletterEarly Summer, 2016
Smart and Connected Communities in practice: The Billion Oyster Project
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What can Smart and Connected Communities be, and what can they do? The Collaboratory NYC, with funding from NSF's ITEST program, is putting its vision of Smart and Connected Communities into practice through the Billion Oyster Project. The project has brought together multiple stakeholders around a unifying challenge: repopulating oysters in New York Harbor. Why does this matter, and what is being done?
Bringing programming -- and social change -- to girls: 'Co-Robots for CompuGirls' gets students to think about how robots can address human problems
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Survey after survey has shown a lack of women engaged in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. It's an utterly human problem, but one group of eighth-grade girls recently experimented with a way to address at least one aspect of it -- with robots. The students, participating in a program funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) called Co-Robots for CompuGirls, programmed a pair of two-foot, identical humanoid "Nao
Project Spotlight: Innovation Institute
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STELAR recently connected with Priya Mohabir, Director of the Alan J. Friedman Center For the Development of Young Scientists at the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) and her colleague, David Wells, Director of Maker Programming. Priya is the Principal Investigator of the Innovation Institute project. The Innovation Institute (I2) takes high school students through the entire process of inventing a device, software or other technology. I2 stresses
June 2016 Newsletter: STEM for All
NewsletterOutstanding STEM Learning For All: New EDC Report Shares NSF Forum Findings
BlogThis is a reposting of a blog originally published on Education Development Center, Inc.'s Learning and Teaching website.Sarita Pillai leads initiatives to improve the quality and equity of STEM education, including managing national research and technical assistance centers, building and sustaining communities of practice, and engaging youth in developing STEM-focused, technology-based resources for their peers. She is the PI of the National
New Report Calls STEM Learning a "Social Justice" Issue
NewsThe new report Next Generation STEM Learning For All: Envisioning Advances Based on NSF Supported Research highlights the ways in which STEM offers traditionally underrepresented groups increased opportunities for individual success, calling access to STEM education an issue of social justice. The report comes out of the forum of the same name, which was organized by EDC and SRI International for the National Science Foundation (NSF).In addition
April 2016 Newsletter: Youth Motivation
NewsletterProject Spotlight: CompuGirls Scale-up
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STELAR recently caught up with Dr. Kimberly A. Scott, Associate Professor in the Women and Gender Studies Department and Founder/Executive Director of the Center for Gender Equity in Science and Technology (CGEST) at Arizona State University. Dr. Scott is the Principal Investigator of the CompuGirls Scale-up project. The CompuGirls Scale-Up project utilizes a culturally relevant technology (CRT) program to prepare girls ages 13-18 from the
Youth Motivation 2.0
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Since its inception, the ITEST program has funded projects developing strategies, tools, and models focused on increasing students' awareness of STEM and STEM careers and motivating students to pursue the appropriate education pathways for those fields. ITEST projects often have a focus on social learning outcomes and on learning environment conditions that enhance learners' motivation, mindset, identity and interest in STEM learning and careers