This Project Grant award, totaling $600,000 and provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, will fund a Research Experience for Teachers (RET) site project at the University of Nevada, Reno. The project will provide STEM teachers (grades 6-14) with immersive research experiences in the emerging field of edge artificial intelligence (edge AI). Teachers will engage in hands-on research using a custom-designed...
This three-year, $810,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure will fund the University of California, San Diego to operate an Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site focused on interdisciplinary artificial intelligence research and ethics. The grant supports training for 33 undergraduate students over three years in AI methods and the ethics of AI research through a collaborative research experience. Students will receive an initial...
The University of Notre Dame received a $599,239 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to renew its Research Experience for Teachers site. Through this funding, the University will partner Notre Dame computer science students and faculty with elementary and middle school teachers from the greater South Bend, Indiana area. During a seven-week summer program, teacher participants will conduct research...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will fund a multi-subject data science and artificial intelligence (DS+AI) professional development (PD) week for high school teachers across at least 20 U.S. states. The $299,709 award will enable the Computer Science Alliance and Data Science 4 Everyone (DS4E), in collaboration with several education partners, to train a cohort of "master...
This Project Grant award of $812,312 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the development and research of learning trajectories (LTs) to enhance middle and high school students' understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) concepts. The key products and services to be delivered include: Designing and pilot testing learning activities and assessments targeting challenging AI concepts based on the developed LTs Offering teacher professional...
This $199,503 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program will fund a large-scale, mixed-methods study to understand perceptions and use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in K-12 education. The one-year project will survey a nationally representative sample of parents, teachers, and youth to identify opportunities, risks, and supports needed for integrating AI-driven learning tools. The study will employ both...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to empower middle school teachers to integrate computational thinking (CT) into their science classrooms. The $564,135 award to North Carolina State University will fund the co-design and testing of 28 new CT-integrated science activities, provide professional development on CT in science for 84 teachers, and iteratively co-design and test an AI-powered tool to support teachers in...
This $599,855 three-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the "RET SITE: BERKELEY ENGINEERING RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR TEACHERS - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESOURCES FOR A CLEANER ENVIRONMENT (BERET-AIRE)" program hosted by the University of California, Berkeley. The program will establish teams of pre-service and in-service teachers from high schools and community colleges serving predominantly underrepresented...
This Project Grant award of $466,338, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, will fund the "REU SITE: AI AND SCIENCE SUMMER LAB: ADVANCING AI-ENABLED SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY" program at the University of Chicago. The program aims to train the next generation of AI researchers and scientists by exposing 10 undergraduate students per year to cutting-edge research at the intersection of AI and...
This three-year, $516,058 project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund the development of artificial intelligence (AI) curriculum modules integrated across high school core subjects and a professional development program for teachers. Led by the Concord Consortium, the project team which includes Carnegie Mellon University and North Carolina State University, will create a two-hour introductory AI module and three five-hour...