Project Grant 2445648
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program is funding the development and testing of software and hardware tools to enable faculty, staff, postdoctoral research fellows, and graduate students who are blind or have low vision to generate, identify, and manipulate digital data patterns and trends in the fields of chemistry, math, computer and information sciences. The $741,159 award to Newhaptics Corp and the...
- Georgia Tech Research Corporation was awarded a $2,124,522 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop an accessible digital learning environment for teaching computer science to blind and visually impaired youth through music programming. The awardee will co-design and evaluate EarSketch, an online platform for coding through music, to ensure accessibility for learners with visual impairments. Participatory design studies and mixed...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) totaling $499,134 aims to develop inclusive, interactive educational games for STEM learning that utilize cost-effective refreshable braille displays (RBDs). The goal is to enhance braille literacy and STEM skills for blind and visually impaired elementary school children. The project seeks to bridge the braille literacy gap by leveraging advancements in haptic assistive technologies to...
- The University of North Texas received a $429,262 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop an accessible digital learning environment for blind and visually impaired youth to learn computer science concepts through music programming. The three-year award beginning June 1, 2023 will support iterative co-design of EarSketch, an online platform for coding through music, to be more accessible. Participatory design studies with...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund a 4-year, $2,279,178 project to improve the usability and accessibility of the OctoStudio coding app for elementary and middle school students. The key goals are to develop new features that broaden the app's accessibility, particularly for blind and low-vision users, and conduct usability testing to enhance the app's engagement and utility across diverse student populations. This...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $300,809 to Saint Louis University to explore the integration of reconfigurable sensorimotor interfaces into educational STEM simulations for digital learning platforms. The goal is to develop low-cost, reconfigurable "teletangible" haptic devices that can be used to embody STEM concepts and support the learning of both sighted students and those with blindness or low...
- This Project Grant award of $899,979 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund a three-year collaboration between the Concord Consortium and Perkins School for the Blind to develop an AI-powered, multimodal data exploration environment. The goal is to enable blind and low-vision students to meaningfully engage with data through voice commands, sonification, and AI-generated audible descriptions. The project team aims to transform the educational...
- This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, is funding the development and testing of software and hardware tools to enable blind or low-vision faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate students in chemistry, mathematics, computer science, and information sciences to generate, identify, and manipulate digital data patterns and trends. The $459,000 award to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,...
- This $587,690 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of accessible computational thinking curricula for middle school students with autism spectrum disorder. The initiative aims to foster inclusion and diversity in STEM education by addressing the lack of access and engagement faced by neurodivergent learners. Through a research-practitioner partnership, the award...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) provides $400,000 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to investigate methods and systems that allow blind and low-vision (BLV) users to build customized, interactive multisensory data representations spanning text, audio, and tactile modalities. The goal is to empower BLV individuals to engage in data analysis as richly...
This Project Grant award of $1,300,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) is for a project titled "Developing a Nonvisual, Tangible Interface for the Scratch Educational Programming Environment." The funding will support the continued development and testing of a non-visual, haptic-based interface for the Scratch programming environment to allow blind and visually impaired students to fully participate in the same learning opportunities as their sighted peers. Key objectives include improving the system design based on user feedback, automating previously manual interface components, and adding engagement-focused features similar to the visual Scratch interface. The project will also develop teaching resources such as curricula, support materials, and training videos to help teachers effectively integrate the non-visual interface. The award has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2029 and is being led by Virginia Commonwealth University.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $1.3m | 9/10/25 |