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The Atlanta Growing Leadership of Women Inc. (Atlanta Glow) will receive $900,000 under a three-year Project Grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. The funding will support Atlanta Glow's Leadership Education/Equity and Advancement Program (LEAP) initiative from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. LEAP will provide evidence-based mentoring, life skills training, and leadership development services to 550...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $350,000 to the University of Delaware to develop strategies and interventions to increase the participation of middle-school girls, particularly those from underrepresented or marginalized groups, in computing career paths. The project will integrate frameworks such as personal and group identity formation, embodied virtual agents, human-computer interaction, and motivation to reverse...

The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City will broaden outreach for its long-standing Leadership and Science Program for Girls under a $327,957 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The grant supports the National Leadership Grants program, which aims to address critical needs in the museum and library fields. Through the one-year grant period ending October 31, 2022, the Museum will encourage youth from low-income New York City neighborhoods to...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will provide $445,606 to The Ohio State University to implement the "Girls* On Rock" (GOR) program. GOR is a comprehensive pre-college geoscience learning ecosystem designed to address the underrepresentation of girls and non-binary individuals in the geosciences and related fields. The program will offer 16-18 year old participants immersive, hands-on experiences in the geosciences...

This Project Grant award of $1,156,140.00 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to the University of Pittsburgh. The project focuses on developing learner-co-created social robots to support middle school girls from historically underrepresented backgrounds in developing AI and computing skills. The project will carry out three design-based research iterations with a total of 140 girls in collaboration with two community...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation provided $255,935 to Smart Girls HQ LLC through the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of March 1, 2021 to February 28, 2022. The funding supports the development of a digital platform that engages elementary aged girls in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) through personalized informal learning experiences. The Engineering program seeks to improve the quality of life and economic strength...

The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) received a $363,986 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings. This 5-year grant, funded through the NSF's Racial Equity in STEM Education activity, will support a collaborative research project focused on creating an intersectional learning ecosystem to increase the participation and representation of Black girls, aged 9-14, in artificial intelligence (AI) education...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $999,800 Cooperative Agreement under its Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to Smart Girls HQ LLC, a woman-owned small business, to develop a digital platform that engages elementary-aged girls in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) through personalized informal learning. The key objectives of this two-year project from October 2023 to September 2025 are to: 1) refine an algorithmic model to generate STEM...

This $347,382 National Science Foundation project grant will support Bluegrass Community and Technical College's "Girls Can Too" program over three years. The program aims to recruit and retain more women in industrial maintenance technology careers by increasing awareness and providing learning opportunities and mentoring beginning in middle school. Specifically, the college will educate, recruit and mentor 80 middle and high school girls annually through activities coupled with...

This $2,499,156 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of game-based learning experiences and research to promote middle school girls' interest and aspirations in data science. Funded under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), the award was made on September 1, 2022 to the Concord Consortium, Inc. to complete the work by August 31, 2025. Under the award, Concord Consortium will create a social virtual world and data science game for middle school aged girls....