Formula Grant F18AF01259

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), aims to design, develop, implement, and evaluate an accessible video game design curriculum using Nintendo's Game Builder Garage platform. The $1,099,362 award will be used to deploy the curriculum in informal STEM learning environments and investigate its influence on computational thinking skills and attitudes towards STEM for individuals with disabilities. The project involves a...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education awarded a $4,800,000 GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) Project Grant to the Rhode Island Office of the Postsecondary Commissioner (RIOPC). The grant, with an award date of September 1, 2024 and an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2025, will provide comprehensive college access and success services to low-income students in Rhode Island to assist them in obtaining secondary school...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $159,000.00 to the University of Pittsburgh to examine the feasibility of a randomized controlled trial that compares the effects of a combined Strategy Training (ST) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) intervention to ST alone for improving social participation, psychological...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs provides $746,965.00 to Purdue University to deliver a scholarship competition for intensive on-site games industry training at Purdue University and the International Game Developers Conference (GDC). The award, which runs from Sep 25, 2024 to Jan 31, 2026, falls under the CFDA 19.040 Public Diplomacy Programs federal grant. Through this initiative, Purdue University will leverage its expertise...

The federal Project Grant award of $1,500,000.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration under the Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending program (CFDA 17.289). The award was granted to The Game On Center, Inc., a non-profit organization located in Troy, New York, with a performance period from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2028. The grant is intended to fund diverse workforce development and community enhancement projects that...

This $117,500 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program establishes an Emerging Technologies Research Laboratory (ETRL) at the University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras Campus. The ETRL will serve as a collaborative hub to study the psychological, neurological, and physiological impacts of emerging digital technologies such as video games, social media, AI, and virtual reality on human behavior, mental health,...

The Educational Service Center of Cuyahoga County was awarded a $3,680,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) (CFDA 84.334) to implement the GEAR UP-First Ring Collaborative (GU-FRC) partnership project from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025. The project aims to provide comprehensive college access and success services to low-income students in the First Ring school districts in Northeast Ohio,...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (CFDA 93.433) provides $200,000 to the University of Oregon to revise an existing employability skills curriculum for justice-involved youth with disabilities. The goal is to implement the updated "Ready to Work: Community" curriculum in community-based juvenile service settings, where it can be facilitated by juvenile services personnel, vocational rehabilitation...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $499,055 Project Grant to the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education (STEM Education) federal grant program (CFDA 47.076). The two-year award will support the development of a mid-scale research infrastructure incubator to leverage data from digital educational games to improve STEM learning. Specifically, the University of Wisconsin-Madison will convene asynchronous discussions, in-person...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to design the blueprint and initial prototype for a gamified, personalized virtual experience to provide essential scientific research skills training to undergraduate students at the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras. The $500,000 project, with a performance period from September 2024 to August 2027, seeks to increase access to guided research opportunities for underrepresented Hispanic...