Cooperative Agreement FH400G13036

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) is focused on enhancing outdoor informal STEM learning opportunities for early adolescent youth. The $806,460 award to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University aims to develop shared outcome measures, establish an evidence-based learning network, conduct systematic program evaluations, and create comparative case studies on effective outdoor education practices. The project will...

This $184,742 National Science Foundation project grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports research at Texas A&M University to study the role of co-curricular physics outreach activities on undergraduate student persistence and success. The project aims to survey undergraduate physics majors nationwide regarding their participation in informal physics outreach programs for K-12 students and analyze the relationship to student success factors. A subaward of $30,000 to the...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the Science Museum of Minnesota (SMM) a $843,830 Project Grant under the Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program. The goal of this 2-year award is to develop strategies for creating more inclusive pathways into geoscience careers, particularly targeting underserved youth. The "Connecting Opportunities for Research Experiences (CORE) in the Geosciences" project will leverage SMM's expertise in STEM education and community engagement through...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), supports a four-year collaborative research project to develop and implement a justice-centered water literacy curriculum for students in grades 3-8 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Working with a network of public charter schools and a steering committee of local community organizations, the research team will engage approximately 16 teachers and 640 students to create curriculum units that...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program seeks to foster partnerships between community leaders and informal STEM learning institutions, with a focus on using films to engage in dialogues around anti-racism, science, and environmental justice. The $149,433 award will support a partnership development and planning project in New Orleans, LA and St. Louis, MO. The project aims to cultivate collaborations between community...

This $787,042 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports a collaborative research project to engage Latinx families as design partners in creating equitable informal engineering learning opportunities for young children. The project, led by the Chicago Children's Museum in partnership with Loyola University Chicago and community organization Palenque LSNA, will utilize oral storytelling as a basis for designing hands-on engineering...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) IUSE: EHR (CFDA #47.076) Project Grant award of $164,956 to Chico State Enterprises aims to quantify the relationship between teaching methods, student learning, and student attitudes in introductory geoscience courses. The project will design a series of lessons classified as teacher-centered, transitional, and student-centered based on classroom observation protocols. These lessons will be implemented at four institutions over multiple semesters, with...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $252,218 to Chico State Enterprises, a Hispanic Serving Institution, to develop marketing materials that can attract more diverse student populations to the geosciences field. The key products and services to be delivered include: Conducting surveys and focus groups with students in introductory STEM courses at California State University, Chico, as well as high school and community...

This $271,523 federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076), aims to enhance student engagement in office hours within STEM courses, particularly biology, at multiple Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) and emerging HSIs in Southern California. The key objectives are to: 1) characterize student and faculty perceptions of office hours, 2) investigate the impact of...

This $100,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) supports the Sierra Streams Institute, a nonprofit organization in California, to implement an environmental education initiative. The key activities include: Developing a Watershed Communication Toolkit (WCT) to enhance students' critical thinking and science literacy by facilitating communication between peers on regional watershed issues. The WCT will...