Project Grant 2516904
- This federal Project Grant award of $123,847 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports a partnership between Aztec dancers and Western-trained scientists to bridge indigenous and Western knowledge systems. The goal is to co-design and develop new approaches to informal STEM learning that integrate varied epistemologies, lived experiences, and perspectives using a systems science approach. Key project activities include a multi-day retreat,...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $249,966 Project Grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to the Space Science Institute, a nonprofit organization based in Boulder, Colorado. The grant will support a national conference that explores the role of public libraries in addressing local climate impacts. The conference will convene 30 library leaders, climate experts, public health professionals, and STEM educators to examine climate-related programming in libraries and how...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $164,944 Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to the Long Island Children's Museum in Garden City, New York. The grant will fund a partnership development and planning project between the museum and the Westbury School District. The project aims to expand the long-standing STEM learning partnership to include local families and shift the focus from institution-driven to family-driven STEM experiences. The project will employ...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $350,000 to investigate how members of STEM teams build relationships through knowledge transfer from professional development activities. The project will allow the Principal Investigator (PI) to develop skills in qualitative research methods, including interviewing, and gain practical experience in STEM education research. The findings will be shared through professional development...
- This $631,404 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) in developing resources to help informal STEM educators conduct more effective and culturally responsive program evaluations. Over the 2-year project period from September 2024 to August 2026, NYSCI will collaborate with caregivers to identify meaningful evaluation metrics and develop a toolkit to empower educators to gather and apply...
- This $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports a partnership development and planning project focused on advancing geospatial science representation in informal STEM education offerings in the Greater St. Louis region. The project aims to create a coalition of geospatial innovation organizations from public, private, and government sectors to identify gaps, enable collaboration, and share knowledge and resources. The...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $384,459 Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to the Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI). The project aims to create, implement, evaluate, and disseminate a collection of laboratory investigations designed to increase the scientific literacy of undergraduate non-STEM majors at two-year colleges. The investigations will emphasize the nature of science and progressively increase the level of scientific inquiry expected...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $1,389,237 to The Regents of the University of Colorado to investigate how informal STEM educators in settings like museums, libraries, and community organizations negotiate, redesign, and repair organizational and community infrastructures to support innovations in learning with computing. The research focuses on understanding the supports that informal STEM and computing...
- 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 $1,100,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to the National Academy of Sciences. The award will fund a new consensus study titled "Enhancing the Reach and Contributions of Informal STEM Learning" to be completed by February 29, 2028. The study aims to update a previous 2009 report and codify current knowledge on supporting learning across informal STEM environments. The goal is to inform effective decision-making...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $149,060.00 to the Space Science Institute (SSI) to strengthen partnerships and relationships between libraries in the Northern Mariana Islands and the Space Science Institute. The key goals of this partnership development and planning project are to: 1) identify new organizations and individuals to partner with, 2) provide existing and new partners with information, training, and resources to acquire STEM education funding, and 3) build capacity for continued and future collaborative partnerships through funding and research. The project will utilize deliverables such as community dialogues, asset mapping, library showcases, funding acquisition training, and basic evaluation and research methods. This award aims to advance new approaches to and evidence-based understanding of STEM learning in informal environments, providing multiple pathways for accessing and engaging in STEM learning experiences. The performance period for this award is from September 1, 2025 to November 30, 2026.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $0 | 8/27/25 | ||
| Not listed | $149.1k | 8/26/25 |