Cooperative Agreement 2010JLFXK049

This $125,843 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports the development of digital safety educational materials and training for elementary school students. Funded under the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), the North Carolina State University project will design a comprehensive suite of materials covering topics such as cyberbullying, digital security, privacy, identity, and proper online communication. The materials will be disseminated through workshops training 40...

This Project Grant award for $500,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program supports an effort by Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to develop an embodied, informal STEAM (STEM + Arts) education program focused on teaching young students about the ethics of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI). The project aims to help students better understand the societal impacts of...

The TECH Interactive, doing business as TECH, will receive $495,506 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program to conduct an evaluation of its virtual and in-person field trip programs. The project aims to adapt TECH's offerings to evolving educator needs post-pandemic by assessing barriers to participation, updating programs and operations based on findings, and disseminating learnings. Specifically, TECH will survey educators to...

This $499,828 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports research to formalize the concept of "threat perception" (TP) in software development and design educational interventions to improve TP learning among undergraduate computer science students. The primary goals are to: 1) develop a mechanistic model of TP based on constructivist learning theory, 2) analyze how code analysis tasks like "build it, break it, fix...

This $149,932 National Science Foundation project grant will fund the development of human-technology safety partnerships for roadside work zones. Specifically, the University of Memphis will create an initial prototype of connected wearable devices to assist highway workers in identifying potential threats. Researchers will use virtual reality experiments to study workers' safety-related decisions with and without wearables. They will also develop a technology acceptance model and quantify...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $1,300,000 to the University of Virginia to develop low-cost, adaptable physical computing tools such as robots to provide equitable opportunities for elementary and middle school students to learn computer science (CS) skills and concepts. The project aims to investigate how these educational robots can help students develop CS understanding and executive functioning skills, while...

This $399,700 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) supports a research study to evaluate the equivalence of in-person and virtual delivery of the Safe Touches child sexual abuse prevention program. The study will assess concept learning acquisition and retention among elementary school students, as well as factors impacting program adoption and...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, is for the development of a screen-free, interactive learning platform designed to improve early childhood literacy and STEM engagement. The $1,058,349 project, awarded to Calis Books Inc., aims to integrate the tactile benefits of physical books with interactive, audio-guided literacy and STEM activities for children aged 3-8. The platform...

This $667,156 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings will fund the development of a Data Sensing Learning Environment (DASLET) to advance middle school students' computational thinking skills and engagement with STEM careers in the construction industry. Under the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA #47.076), which supports the development of the Nation's STEM education enterprise, Texas A&M University will...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program is funding a $299,813 project titled "Engaging Individual Education Plan Teams as Co-Designers of Middle Grades Computing Activities for Autistic Students." The project aims to develop tools and resources to create computational thinking activities for autistic students that are co-designed with their Individualized Education Plan (IEP) teams. The co-design process will...