This $631,404 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) in developing resources to help informal STEM educators conduct more effective and culturally responsive program evaluations. Over the 2-year project period from September 2024 to August 2026, NYSCI will collaborate with caregivers to identify meaningful evaluation metrics and develop a toolkit to empower educators to gather and apply...
This $399,251 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to advance the understanding of science centers' engagement of mentors with students. The project will place 60 undergraduates, 75% from underserved populations, in R&D internships at the San Antonio Museum of Science and Technology. Mentors will be recruited from the local chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the students will develop...
This $499,867 National Science Foundation Project Grant awarded on October 1, 2023 under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program will support the creation of sophisticated assessments and data collection efforts to enhance STEM instruction and research across K-16 education. The project, led by Iowa State University, will establish eight working groups to address critical topics for ethical, large-scale data collection and diverse research collaborations. This will enable the expansion of the...
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...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076) supports a collaborative research project investigating the conceptual foundations of early number development in toddlers and preschool-aged children. The $546,968 award to Trustees of Indiana University will fund two foundational studies examining how young children perceive quantity, learn number words, and track small groups of objects, as well as...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) program, CFDA 47.076 STEM Education, will establish a "laboratory classroom" to capture real-time data on individual student learning behaviors, cognition, and interactions within classroom settings. The $499,998 award to the University of Virginia will fund the incubation and piloting of this research platform, which aims to produce metrics on student-level factors that influence STEM...
This Project Grant award, in the amount of $225,705.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program. The project aims to create three accessible community makerspaces in Baltimore for youth and young adults with autism, develop accessible technology-rich STEM learning activities for this audience, and establish an educator training program to support delivery of the activities. The University of Maryland Baltimore County is leading...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $3,057,609 Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in San Diego, CA. The "Racial Equity: STEM in Your Neighborhoods" project aims to highlight the stories and STEM identities of historically marginalized communities. Key activities include: 1) establishing equitable ways for diverse communities to collaborate and engage, 2) facilitating participatory STEM-story sharing sessions,...
Indiana University was awarded a $724,956 project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant will support Indiana University's project titled "Supporting Early Learning of Computational Thinking Using Mixed Reality Technology." As part of its mission to ensure the vitality of the nation's STEM education enterprise, the NSF STEM Education program provides funding for the...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $1,239,952 provides funding from May 1, 2022 through April 30, 2025 to develop and research a model for engaging African American young women in STEM and entrepreneurship through community-centered making. Funded under the federal STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), the awardee Terc, Inc. will partner with The Forge Greensboro makerspace and the Greensboro Housing Authority to introduce participants to product design, computer-aided...
This $149,540 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to address the assessment needs of maker (or tinkering) spaces and programs within science and children's museums across the country. The award, granted to Trustees of Indiana University/Indiana University, will establish a collaborative network among museum staff, educational researchers, and community advisors to identify key assessment constructs and approaches that can help improve the learning experiences and equity in these museum maker programs. The project will result in a report on assessment needs, promising assessment approaches with an emphasis on equity, and the creation of a continuing collaborative network. The award period spans from September 2023 to February 2025.