This Project Grant award of $299,925.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the development of an integrated computational thinking and science curriculum for elementary students on the island of Molokai, Hawaii. The project engages teachers and researchers in a research practice partnership (RPP) to co-design curricular units that integrate the existing FOSS science modules with computing and computational thinking projects. The...
This $1,299,941 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund the Institute for Future Intelligence (IFI) and the Pacific International Center for High Technology Research (PICHTR) to develop and test an integrated STEM curriculum focused on agricultural technology (agtech) in Hawaii. The project aims to connect traditional Hawaiian aquaculture practices with modern smart farming technologies and data science. Key products and...
The University of Hawaii at Manoa was awarded a $996,552 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings to advance research and practice in culturally-relevant computing in upper elementary education. The grant falls under the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), which supports the development of STEM education to ensure the vitality of the Nation's science, technology, engineering and mathematics enterprise. Through...
This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities provides $169,231 to the University of Hawaii at Manoa for collaborative research titled "Connected to Earth: Cross-Cultural Knowledge Exchange for Advancing Earth Science Learning." The award falls under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to strengthen the geosciences field through basic research on Earth systems.
Specifically, the University of Hawaii will leverage...
This $700,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support the University of Hawaii at Manoa to deliver professional development services to K-12 teachers in Kauai, Hawaii through March 2028. Over the five-year period of performance, the University of Hawaii-Kauai Community College will engage two cohorts of local teachers in mathematics coursework, coaching, culturally responsive curriculum development, and lesson study. Teachers will...
This federal Project Grant award of $283,812, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, aims to support a research project focused on incorporating place-based, locally and culturally significant phenomena into science teaching and learning in rural elementary schools across Maine, Montana, and Hawai'i.
The primary goals of the project are to: 1) Design, implement, and investigate a professional learning approach that helps rural...
This Project Grant award, totaling $756,286, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076). The project, titled "SHAKA - STEM High-Achieving Kumu Akamai", aims to address the national need for preparing culturally responsive secondary STEM teachers to teach in high-need school districts. Key products and services to be delivered include:
Training 12 Hawai'i Pacific University (HPU) STEM graduates over 5 years to become...
This $182,421 National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program award to the University of Hawaii at Manoa will support a 5-year project titled "CAREER: Climate Variability in Hawaii through Scientific and Indigenous Approaches." The project aims to combine quantitative scientific methods with traditional ecological knowledge from Hawaii's indigenous communities to provide a holistic understanding of climate variability and extreme weather events in the Hawaiian islands. The...
The Pacific American Foundation Inc. received a $245,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems to support the "Culturally Relevant Physical Computing for Sustainability Programs for Native Hawaiian Students" program. The two-year award, made on November 1, 2021 and set to conclude on October 31, 2023, will fund the development and delivery of culturally relevant physical computing and sustainability education programs for...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $648,169 Project Grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to the University of Hawaii at Manoa. This 3-year grant will develop a Cyber Data Analytics Technician Workforce Development Program to address the nation's need for skilled cybersecurity professionals. Key objectives include creating 4 new courses and a new online certificate in cyber data analytics, providing opportunities for students in non-computing degree programs to...
This $999,817 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the development of a technology-rich integrated geoscience and computer science curriculum module focused on volcanic risks and hazards in Hawaii.
The project, titled "The Pelehonuamea Project: Connecting Indigenous Hawaiian History and Computational Geoscience in Teaching Volcanism", brings together STEM education researchers, middle school teachers, students, community members, and geoscientists to co-design the curriculum. The key products include: 1) Incorporating Hawaiian oral histories and lived experiences into the curriculum to contextualize computer science and geoscience learning, 2) Developing a computational model that allows students to use block coding to explore environmental variables influencing volcanic lava flows, and 3) Researching the impact of this culturally- and geographically-relevant integrated curriculum on students' attitudes towards computer science and their learning of computational thinking and geoscience concepts.
The project involves sub-awards to Waimea Middle School and the Hookakoo non-profit organization in Hawaii, as well as Teachers College Columbia University, to support curriculum co-design, teacher professional development, student engagement, and data collection efforts.