This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award provides $274,428 to Skillsgapp LLC to develop a place-based platform for STEM career discovery. The platform utilizes an AI-powered gaming approach to educate and guide youth, particularly from underrepresented populations, towards local, meaningful career paths in advanced manufacturing and other STEM fields. The innovation combines large language models, retrieval-augmented...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $305,000 to Nd-Diagenomix, Inc. (doing business as Adapta Education, Inc.) will develop a web-based formative assessment system to improve math learning and address teacher burnout in high schools. The system will leverage cognitive diagnostic modeling and machine learning algorithms to provide highly efficient, personalized, and customizable assessments that identify students'...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $274,981 to PrairieLearning, Inc., a for-profit organization, aims to develop an online learning and assessment platform for sophisticated and secure exams. The key products and services to be delivered include:
The platform will provide a robust and sophisticated assessment tool for STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) educators to improve student learning,...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I award of $304,951 aims to develop an innovative AI-powered virtual reality (VR) system for enhancing vocational assessment and job matching for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The project, aligned with the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, seeks to overcome the limitations of conventional vocational evaluation methods by integrating advanced cognitive...
This Project Grant award of $200,000 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (47.076) program aims to promote AI readiness and democratize AI technologies for a broad spectrum of advanced cyberinfrastructure users and researchers. The key products and services provided under this 4-year award, which began on September 1, 2023, include:
Developing a comprehensive suite of experiential learning modules, including flexible micro-modules and immersive extended reality experiences,...
This is a $304,993 Project Grant awarded on April 1, 2025 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084). The grant funds the development of an adaptive, AI-driven career exploration platform to provide personalized career guidance for students in secondary and post-secondary education. The platform will leverage advanced learning theories, data-driven models, and data visualization technologies to help users make...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $275,000 will support the development of an AI-enhanced platform to empower K-12 teachers with high-quality and inclusive math instruction. The project aims to tackle challenges in K-12 math education by integrating new AI models to assist teachers in generating personalized lesson materials, providing formative assessment, auto-scoring, and generating diagnostic reports...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $150,000 EAGER (Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research) project grant to The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, to develop an AI-driven, mixed-reality-based training platform. The award aims to create a realistic, cost-effective environment for interactive task training that can benefit areas such as education, workforce development, and emergency response preparation. The...
This $1,022,772 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to develop an enterprise-level platform that integrates immersive extended reality (XR) technologies into technician education programs. The project, titled "IMMERSIVE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES: EXPANDING ACCESS THROUGH OPEN-SOURCE INNOVATION," will create a platform that enables seamless integration of XR environments with existing learning management systems,...
This Project Grant award of $267,997 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) is focused on enhancing AI education and workforce development at Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU). The overarching goal is to create a sustainable model for developing diverse AI talent by blending existing teaching frameworks with embedded work experiences.
The key objectives are to: 1) Improve educational success of minority...