Project Grant 2506658
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $889,766 Project Grant under the STEM Education federal grant program (CFDA 47.076) to Concord Consortium Inc., a non-profit research and development organization. The grant will fund a project titled "Separating the Signal from the Noise: Promoting Alaskan Students' Inquiry with Geographically Relevant Seismic Data and Machine Learning Techniques." The project aims to engage middle school students in Anchorage, Alaska in authentic...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), provides $449,768 to the Concord Consortium, a non-profit research and development organization, to develop a digital learning tool that allows middle school students to visually and dynamically explore neural pathways in language-based AI systems. The project aims to enhance students' understanding of neural network interpretability and human-machine collaboration in AI development. Key...
- This $348,706 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to develop and implement a curricular program for middle-school students in community-based settings. The program will focus on building data visualization skills to help students become critical consumers and interpreters of data. The research goals are to provide empirical evidence of middle school students building data visualization practices through learning technologies and to...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $999,817 project grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to the Concord Consortium Inc. The "The Pelehonuamea Project: Connecting Indigenous Hawaiian History and Computational Geoscience in Teaching Volcanism" will develop a technology-rich integrated geoscience and computer science curriculum focused on volcanic risks and hazards for middle school students in Hawaii. The project involves co-designing the curriculum with indigenous...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $1,001,564 project grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to Nurture Nature Center. The grant period is from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2025. The project aims to develop a new model for training middle school science teachers to instruct with complex scientific data visualizations and arts-based pedagogies. Three subawards totaling $1,001,564 were provided to the University of Colorado, Education Development Center, and J Sickler Consulting...
- The National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) awarded a $832,549 project grant to Learning Partnership LLC, a for-profit educational research organization based in Western Springs, Illinois. The grant, awarded on September 15, 2025, with a completion date of August 31, 2028, aims to expand on the successful Geospatial Semester program by co-developing, implementing, and studying the impact of four geographic information systems (GIS) technology-enhanced curricular...
- 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 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $757,900.00 to support research on how to apply cognitive principles to the design of animated STEM instructional materials. The goal is to advance the understanding of how students learn STEM concepts that involve temporal processes and transformations, such as photosynthesis and earthquakes. The research team at The Washington University will test a theory-driven intervention...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,293,270 Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to the Regents of the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) to develop new technological and pedagogical frameworks for integrating data modeling and agent-based modeling into middle school environmental science curricula. The project aims to create three technology-rich learning units that leverage the Common Online Data Analysis Platform (CODAP) and the Modeling...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $523,345 to the Concord Consortium, a non-profit research and development organization, to develop a learning ecosystem for teaching high school students machine learning concepts and data science skills in healthcare and medicine. The key components of the project include: 1) a data science and machine learning laboratory course for high school students, with students exploring data...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $899,362 Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to Concord Consortium Inc., a non-profit research organization in Concord, MA. The grant will fund the development of the "Mapping Time Explorer," a visual analytics system that aims to make time-based geospatial data more accessible and engaging for high school students. The project will leverage emerging research in user interfaces and analysis techniques to design and test technologies that enable students to develop critical data literacy skills for visualizing and analyzing complex geospatial datasets. This early-stage research will explore how to best leverage user interface affordances and data analysis methodologies to support high school students in working with time-based geospatial information, which is increasingly essential for STEM fields. The project will run from September 2025 through February 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $899.4k | 9/7/25 |