Project Grant 2627572
- This $199,999 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program. The grant supports the development and evaluation of an age-appropriate, career-driven AI educational program in smart manufacturing for 50 high-school students from underserved Alabama school districts. Key program components include: Creation of AI learning modules focused on the fused filament fabrication (FFF) additive manufacturing process, incorporating real-time...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) award provides $400,000 over 3 years to Northeastern University to develop and implement a professional development program for high school STEM teachers focused on incorporating generative AI into their classroom instruction. The program will recruit 10 teachers per year, prioritizing those serving underrepresented students, and provide intensive summer training supplemented by monthly collaborative meetings and ongoing content...
- 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, to...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $199,999 RAPID grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to develop and evaluate a generative AI-powered robot design assistant for educational robotics. The project aims to investigate the potential of a task-oriented generative AI tool to support lower-performing learners and advance educational equity in robotics. The key planned activities include the development and testing of a prototype...
- This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources, CFDA 47.076) program provides $1,487,350 to the University of Florida to engage approximately 500 high school students and 25 teachers from under-resourced communities in integrated computer science and engineering education focused on microelectronics and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The project aims to broaden access to these emerging STEM fields...
- The National Science Foundation's Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings awarded $114,371 to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York on September 15, 2025, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop artificial intelligence (AI) literacy resources and professional learning support for middle school educators. Over the two-year project period through August 31, 2027, university researchers will collaborate with school districts in Texas...
- This $400,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports Purdue University in developing an interactive virtual environment for artificial intelligence education. Funded under the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), the two-year project aims to create a real-time visualization tool to promote conceptual and procedural understanding of AI among 250 learners. Either immersive using VR headsets or on conventional displays, the tool will focus on foundational AI topics. Iterative...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076) provides $156,000 to Northwestern University to rapidly develop and research a set of "unplugged" hands-on learning activities for teaching middle-school students about artificial intelligence (AI). The project aims to create an open-source repository of up to 15 hands-on, low-cost AI literacy activities that can be led by educators...
- This $349,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support a research project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to investigate how to design and integrate artificial intelligence (AI) to support equitable K-12 science education. The project plans to explore the use of multimodal AI to provide automated feedback for formative science assessments, with the goal of generating design principles to develop...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $199,994 Project Grant through the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to The Leland Stanford Junior University to explore how high school youth, particularly those from historically marginalized communities, interact with and learn about generative AI and machine learning tools. Over a one-year period, the researchers will pilot classroom and extracurricular activities, collect quantitative and qualitative data, and analyze findings to develop...
NSF FF: PLANNING: 3D SIMULATIONS AND PROJECT-BASED LEARNING TO STRENGTHEN STEM, ROBOTICS, AND AI PATHWAYS FOR HIGH SCHOOL LEARNERS -THIS FINDERS FOUNDRY AWARD ALLOWS STUDENTS TO ENGAGE WITH UP-TO-DATE AI TECHNOLOGIES THAT UPLEVEL COLLEGE AND WORKFORCE READINESS AND INCREASE AWARENESS OF POSSIBLE CAREER PATHS. TRADITIONALLY, HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS? EDUCATION PROVIDES LIMITED EXPOSURE TO MODERN TECHNOLOGIES AND HANDS ON STEM PROJECTS. THIS PROJECT WILL DEVELOP PROJECT-BASED LEARNING MODULUES THAT INTEGRATE DIGITAL SIMULATION AI/ROBOTICS INSTRUCTION, AND HANDS-ON EXPERIENCES. THE LEARNING MODULES WILL UNDERGO AN ITERATIVE CO-DESIGN PROCESS WITH EDUCATOR, STUDENT, RESEARCHER, AND INDUSTRY FEEDBACK TO REFINE USABILITY, AND STRENGTHEN ALIGNMENT WITH COLLEGE AND WORKFORCE READINESS COMPETENCIES RELEVANT TO AI, ROBOTICS, AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS. ANTICIPATED OUTCOMES OF THE PLANNED INNOVATION INCLUDE COLLEGE AND WORKFORCE READINESS, INCREASED AWARENESS OF POSSIBLE CAREER PATHS, AND INCREASED AI LITERACY. THIS FINDERS FOUNDRY AWARD CREATES PATHWAYS FROM CLASSROOM LEARNING TO REAL-WORLD ENGINEERING APPLICATION BY INTEGRATES AN EXISTING SIMULATION PLATFORM WITH PROJECT-BASED LEARNING, AI/ROBOTICS INSTRUCTION, AND HANDS-ON EXPERIENCES. STUDENTS DEVELOP FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS IN MACHINE LEARNING, IMAGE RECOGNITION, ROBOTICS, CODING, AND AUTOMATION THROUGH GUIDED SIMULATIONS, COLLABORATIVE DESIGN CHALLENGES, AND COMMUNITY-BASED ENGINEERING PROJECTS. THE DIGITAL PLATFORM PROVIDES A LOW-BARRIER ENVIRONMENT WHERE STUDENTS CAN PROTOTYPE, TEST, REFINE, AND ITERATE SOLUTIONS USING SIMULATION-BASED DIGITAL TWIN EXPERIENCES BEFORE APPLYING CONCEPTS WITHIN PHYSICAL ROBOTICS AND MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENTS. A PARTNERSHIP WITH A UNIVERSITY LAB WILL EXTEND THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE THROUGH ACCESS TO INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION SYSTEMS, ROBOTICS EQUIPMENT, AND ADVANCED MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENTS WHERE STUDENTS CAN OBSERVE AND APPLY CONCEPTS EXPLORED ON THE DIGITAL PLATFORM. BY INTEGRATING REAL-WORLD ENGINEERING INTO PROJECT BASED LEARNING, THIS PROJECT PREPARES STUDENTS FOR HIGH DEMAND CAREERS IN ADVANCED MANUFACTURING AND AI ENABLED INDUSTRIES. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $50.0k | 7/15/26 |