Cooperative Agreement SBX60024CA0006

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $302,605 to The Leland Stanford Junior University to investigate the use of AI-augmented mobile augmented reality (AR) for creating culturally-relevant science learning simulations for pre-college students. The key products and services being delivered under this 3-year grant include: Co-designing a suite of interactive AR "laboratories" aligned with 9th...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant, funded under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), aims to accelerate the integration of extended reality (XR) technologies, including 360° video, augmented reality, mixed reality, and virtual reality, into technician education programs. The $383,081 award to the Kentucky Community & Technical College System will: Assess XR technology adoption and attitudes within the NSF's Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program domains and...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, aims to develop an innovative "VirtualAI-Story" tool that integrates virtual reality (VR) and large language models (LLMs) to provide personalized, situated learning through adaptive storytelling. The $399,995 award to the University of Florida will be used to create this VR-based learning environment focused on construction engineering education, with the goal of...

This $967,059 project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to improve engineering student engagement, self-efficacy, diversity awareness, and retention through the development and implementation of visualization and virtual/augmented reality (AR/VR) education modules. The project, led by Clemson University in collaboration with Tennessee State University, will create three education modules for architectural engineering and construction (AEC)...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $1,886,515 to Impact Allies Inc. to develop an enterprise-level platform called KonnectXR. This platform will integrate extended reality (XR) technologies, including augmented and virtual reality, into technician education programs. The key goals are to: Enable seamless integration between learning management systems and XR environments through single sign-on capabilities and...

This $399,978 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to promote collaborative learning in architectural engineering design using generative artificial intelligence-powered augmented reality. The project, awarded to Worcester Polytechnic Institute, will develop two generative AI-AR modules to integrate into existing architectural engineering design studio curricula. Over the 3-year period from October 2024 to September 2027, the...

The National Science Foundation awarded $300,000 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program to the University of California, Davis for a project titled "EAGER: Building a Foundation for Hands-on STEM Learning at a Distance: Pedagogical Agents for Embodied Education in Virtual Reality." The two-year project beginning August 1, 2022 will develop embodied pedagogical agents in a virtual environment to facilitate maker education tasks focusing on electronic...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) project grant award of $127,090 to Motlow State Community College will develop an enterprise-level platform called KonnectXR to integrate augmented and virtual reality (XR) technologies into technician education programs. The project aims to: Integrate single sign-on and FERPA-compliant encryption to enable seamless interoperability between the platform and learning management systems like Blackboard, Canvas, and D2L...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) Project Grant, awarded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), aims to develop research infrastructure to enhance human training through AI-driven task environments integrating humans with virtual scene simulations and multi-modal sensorimotor interactions. The $150,000 award to The Pennsylvania State University will fund research to: 1) establish an edge-assisted mixed-reality infrastructure...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076) provides $156,000 to Northwestern University to rapidly develop and research a set of "unplugged" hands-on learning activities for teaching middle-school students about artificial intelligence (AI). The project aims to create an open-source repository of up to 15 hands-on, low-cost AI literacy activities that can be led by educators...