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Northern Arizona University’s Center for Science Teaching and Learning and Geospatial Research and Information Laboratory Receive Special Achievement Award for Exceptional Application of Geospatial Technology
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NAU’s Center for Science Teaching and Learning (CSTL) and Geospatial Research and Information Laboratory (GRAIL) were honored with a Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award at the 2015 Esri International User Conference in San Diego, Calif. This award acknowledges vision, leadership, hard work, and innovative use of Esri's geographic information system (GIS) technology.Through their Power of Data (POD) professional development projects, the CSTL
Summer 2015 Newsletter
NewsletterProject Spotlight: Stem Career Clubs
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STELAR had the opportunity to speak with Jason Painter (North Carolina State University) about the STEM Career Clubs project, an initiative which builds on a successful and research-based Strategic Teaming Model to increase the likelihood that participating students will pursue STEM majors and careers. The project is driven by three key objectives: 1) Facilitate students' and parents' identification with the STEM community by increasing their
Project Spotlight: Engaging Youth in Expanded STEM Career Pathways through Clean Energy Literacy Development
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STELAR recently connected with Rena Dorph, Kevin Cuff, and Matthew Cannady (The Lawrence Hall of Science at the University of California, Berkeley) about the Engaging Youth in Expanded STEM Career Pathways through Clean Energy Literacy Development project, which involves over 300 students per year in urban East Bay communities in grades 9 and 10 in bridging clean energy science investigations within their community with programming skills.* Can
Project Spotlight: Barcoding Life's Matrix
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STELAR had the opportunity to speak with Ralph Imondi (Coastal Marine Biolabs Integrative Biosciences Program) about the Barcoding Life's Matrix project, which engages students in an international collaboration that aims to create a genetic encyclopedia of Earth's plants and animals using short DNA sequences that uniquely identify species groups. The goal of this Strategies project is to interest students in STEM careers by providing them with an
ITEST Proposal Development 2.0
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Coinciding with the release of the new NSF Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) grant proposal solicitation (NSF 15-599), we recently expanded our popular September 2014 highlight (ITEST Proposal Development: Tools and Resources), hence the notation of 2.0.
ITEST Projects Shine in the NSF 2015 Teaching & Learning Video Showcase
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In May 2015, seventeen ITEST projects presented videos in the 2015 National Science Foundation Teaching and Learning Video Showcase. Organized by TERC, the showcase contained 112 videos produced by NSF-funded projects associated with one of these resource centers: ARC, CADRE, CAISE, CIRCL, CS10K, MSPNet, and STELAR.
May 2015 Newsletter
NewsletterFostering and Maintaining Students' Interest in Engineering
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Bernadette Sibuma brings more than a decade of experience in educational research and evaluation to the STEM Learning and Research Center. With special expertise in cognition, instructional technologies, and human-computer interaction, Bernadette's research interests include how we can enhance science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning, how people best learn with technology, and how different interface designs affect
Project Spotlight: Smart Clothing, Smart Girls
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STELAR had the opportunity to speak with Lucy Dunne (University of Minnesota), about the Smart Clothing, Smart Girls project, which is a collaborative strategy project with Cornell University using apparel design as a vehicle to attract middle school girls to STEM learning and engineering careers. Based on a theoretical framework that supports mechanisms for engaging young, female participants in STEM, the project team has thoughtfully designed