This $787,042 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports a collaborative research project titled "From Stories to Solutions: Engaging Latinx Families as Design Partners to Advance Equitable Informal Engineering Learning Opportunities for Young Children." The project aims to co-design playful, hands-on engineering activities with 90 Latinx caregivers and their 5- to 8-year-old children that leverage oral...
This $1,117,913 project grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program will support the design, production, and study of 34 culturally relevant Spanish and English language podcast episodes for Latino families with children aged 5-9. The goal is to engage these families in STEM activities and conversations at home, leveraging the existing popular "Tumble Science Podcast for Kids" platform to reach over 1 million downloads. The project will...
This $1,736,866 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, supports research on community-situated data practices in multiethnic, youth-led research partnerships. The project aims to broaden STEM research and education by centering the cultural epistemologies of racially, ethnically, linguistically, and socioeconomically diverse communities. The research team will conduct a multi-year qualitative study to explore how...
This two-year, $299,722 project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program will fund the New York Hall of Science to deliver exploratory research and co-design efforts with caregivers in Corona, Queens. Working with the New York City Department of Education, the awardee will conduct interviews and intersectional research to understand caregiver engagement in STEM learning from multiple cultural perspectives. They will then engage in collaborative...
This $733,043 project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to engage Latinx families as design partners to develop equitable informal engineering learning opportunities for young children. The project, titled "From Stories to Solutions", is a collaboration between community leaders at Palenque LSNA, educators at the Chicago Children's Museum, and researchers at Loyola University Chicago. Over 90 Latinx caregivers and their 5- to...
This Project Grant award of $1,730,730, provided by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), will support the "Cultivating Culturally Responsive STEM Pathways Using a Near-Peer Role Model Intervention" project at Arizona State University (ASU). The project aims to revise ASU's existing "Science is Fun" (SIF) program to be more culturally responsive for Hispanic students. Facilitated by Hispanic near-peer mentors, the revised afterschool...
This $559,342 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, aims to foster a STEM + medicine learning ecosystem that brings together secondary teachers in historically under-resourced schools and local STEM professionals to co-design and allocate STEM-based resources for youth. The research team will employ an ethnographic design to understand how integrating STEM lessons in under-resourced schools can advance equitable learning...
This $113,370 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to transform introductory engineering courses at a Hispanic-serving two-year college. The goal is to enhance student success and interest in pursuing STEM degrees through a project-based learning approach. The award will fund the development of quasi-independent, low-cost classroom materials and curricula that provide early-career engineering students with significant...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program, formerly known as Education and Human Resources, will fund research examining family engagement in early math education and developing interventions to promote such engagement, especially for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. With $300,000 in funding provided over two years from October 2022 to September 2024, the Trustees of Boston College will conduct focus groups and naturalistic observations of family...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.076 - STEM Education) provides $400,000 to New York University to develop informal learning resources that will broaden participation in engineering among Black families. The project aims to co-create engineering activities with Black families, ages 6-10, that allow children to engage in various engineering disciplines while also learning about prominent Black engineers and scientists. The resulting deliverables include video...
This $334,155 federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), aims to explore how family involvement in everyday activities like cooking can spark children's interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), with a focus on Latino families. The project will evaluate the effects of culturally affirming, at-home, co-cooking activities on children's STEM identity, career aspirations, and diet quality over a 5-week period. The study seeks to capture caregivers' and children's lived experiences related to cultural family cooking routines, STEM conversations, and perceptions of children's STEM identity. The anticipated outcomes include determining best practices to enhance children's STEM identities and inspire future STEM career aspirations through authentic and informal learning opportunities within Latino households. The project is designed to develop the postdoctoral fellow's expertise in study design, research methods, and theories of change to advance their academic research career.