Project Grant 2005942

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), aims to investigate how neurodivergent youth can stimulate community-centered learning of electronic circuits through playful arts-based practices in underserved public spaces. The $296,239 award will be used by Arizona State University (ASU) to train 12 neurodivergent youth community educators on electronic circuits and facilitate workshops on circuit bending at two community pop-up...

This three-year $563,797 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to design health data-tracking technologies tailored for children. Led by the University of California Irvine, the award supports examining challenges in tracking children's health data through smartwatches, fitness bands, and patient monitors. The project consists of three stages. First, interviews will study data literacy, tracking experiences, and...

This $3 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program will fund research and development to improve STEM education effectiveness for all students. Over five years, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will study the impact of social-impact driven makerspace opportunities on marginalized students' engineering identity, sense of belonging, views on failure, and self-efficacy. A subaward of $2.99 million to the University of Michigan will support similar...

Federal Grant Award Summary Award Details: Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC) received a $1,971,515 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076). The award, issued October 15, 2025, supports research and development activities through September 30, 2028, to advance out-of-school Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) learning in healthcare settings....

This $180,000 Project Grant, awarded September 1, 2025, through the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) under CFDA 93.433, funds a two-year mixed-methods research initiative to identify environmental and personal barriers to physical activity (PA) for children with disabilities. The project will deliver two primary products: (1) a cross-sectional analysis of the National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) to quantify PA adherence rates...

The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, in partnership with the Association of Children's Museums, has been awarded a $738,318 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) 21st Century Museum Professionals Program (CFDA 45.032). The grant will fund a professional development program to foster innovative exhibit design for museums catering to children and youth. The project will conduct two training programs for 100 mid-career museum staff, including in-person gatherings,...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides funding of $1,992,484.00 to the Institute for Learning Innovation (ILI), a non-profit organization, to build the capacity of informal STEM learning providers to engage individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) developing a hybrid professional development model to train informal STEM educators on supporting individuals...

The Children's Museum will provide hands-on science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM)-based programs to over 1,000 local youth ages 3 to 14 and their caregivers under a $187,210 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' (IMLS) Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301). In collaboration with six Hartford Public Library branches, three Hartford Family Centers, and the Connecticut Children's Medical Center, the museum will design and develop field...

This Project Grant award of $342,906 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports research at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey's Newark campus. The project aims to explore how children's early media experiences shape their expectations for learning from digital media devices, and how those expectations impact their STEM learning outcomes. Using a combination of behavioral, physiological, and computational approaches, the research will examine...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $572,807 Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) project grant to Kidsplay Children's Museum, Inc. to launch the "HUB@KIDSPLAY" initiative. This 3-year project will establish a physical space within the museum and a corresponding program aimed at fostering collaboration among community stakeholders to better prepare children aged 0-8 to thrive. Key activities include hiring a full-time hub manager to coordinate programming and...