Project Grant 1746669

This SBIR Phase I Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $304,200 to develop a novel adaptive learning platform. The platform leverages mixed-reality, competency-based learning to address workforce displacement due to artificial intelligence (AI) and automation. Key innovations include a skills engine using generative AI and robotic process automation (RPA) to identify and map...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $300,809 to Saint Louis University to explore the integration of reconfigurable sensorimotor interfaces into educational STEM simulations for digital learning platforms. The goal is to develop low-cost, reconfigurable "teletangible" haptic devices that can be used to embody STEM concepts and support the learning of both sighted students and those with blindness or low...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $305,000 STTR Phase I Project Grant to Nd-Diagenomix, Inc. (doing business as Adapta Education, Inc.) to develop a web-based formative assessment system for high school math education. The project aims to address critical problems in math education, including student learning deficiencies and teacher burnout, by creating a highly efficient and personalized assessment platform that can be easily customized by teachers. The system will leverage...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings will fund the development of haptic technology innovations to guide student gesturing with dynamic STEM visualizations from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025 for a total of $549,997. The award will support a collaborative research project between The University of Iowa to design and develop a custom haptic glove that interacts with a computer visualization of a biological...

This National Science Foundation award provides $244,999 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop personalized augmentation tools for robot-assisted science homework. Researchers will partner with middle school teachers and students to co-design Pathwise, an open-source online system including a teacher authoring environment and student homework environment. The teacher tool will allow adding guidance to...

This $275,000 SBIR Phase I award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports research and development by Sown To Grow, Inc., a for-profit small business, to develop an innovative technology that measures the strength of student-teacher relationships at scale. The project aims to create new frameworks for defining trusting relationships based on the depth of student reflections, teacher responses, and how those responses...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) award provides $274,574 to Lifelab Studios, Inc. to develop and test an AI-powered platform that assists justice-involved youth in developing protective factors for positive life changes. The project will use advanced machine learning and large language models to optimize the platform's effectiveness in providing tailored, strengths-based feedback to help break the cycle of recidivism and support...

This Project Grant award of $286,418 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development and validation of an innovative integration of large language models with retrieval-augmented generation technology to enhance the effectiveness of peer mentoring programs in higher education. The project aims to create an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted mentoring platform that provides data-informed,...

This $149,992 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports the development of adaptable, game-based, interactive learning environments for STEM education. The primary goals are to: 1) Automate the customization and adaptation of 3D simulated game-based learning environments to improve engagement; 2) Assess the effectiveness of these learning environments for diverse learner groups in online and in-person...

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...