This is a $644,957 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076). The project aims to develop and implement a novel STEM education curriculum for secondary students, particularly students of color, that focuses on cultivating their reasoning fluency and transformative agency through socially conscious engineering design projects. The curriculum will support students' abilities to reason through ambiguous and ethical challenges, and apply STEM skills to address complex sociotechnical problems involving social justice. The project involves partnering with 50 secondary school educators to implement the curriculum with approximately 600 students. The project also seeks to advance research on how youth develop reasoning capabilities and transformative agency through socially transformative engineering design. Subawards are planned under this grant.
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