NSF FF: planning: AI-enhanced immersive career readiness foundry

Ended Project Grant Awarded

Award ID
2627658
Recipient
Awarding agency
Obligated
$49,979

Award facts

Assistance listing
47.084 NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships
Completion date
Place of performance
New Haven, CT 06515, USA

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Description

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Abstract
This finders foundry award supports an AI-enhanced career-readiness framework aligned with k-12 workforce development, interdisciplinary innovation, and technology-enabled experiential learning. Workforce research consistently shows that employers prioritize soft skills such as communication, collaboration, problem solving, leadership, and adaptability as essential to employment success. However, students often lack access to authentic learning experiences that develop these competencies. This project addresses that GAP by producing a scalable, standards-aligned framework that can be adapted across educational contexts. The adaptable design supports expansion of high-quality career preparation pathways. This finders foundry award addresses a foundational GAP in career readiness research: the absence of scalable models that integrate AI-supported learning, immersive simulation technologies, and competency-based assessment in k?12 education. The interdisciplinary leadership team of educators, caregivers, technologists and researchers will CO-design an AI-enhanced immersive career readiness framework, develop prototype learning experiences, assess technological and implementation feasibility, and establish measurable student outcomes and evaluation strategies. These outcomes establish the research infrastructure needed to evaluate whether AI-supported immersive simulations can serve as effective experiential learning environments for preparing high school students for evolving workforce expectations. 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 not planned for this award.

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Who received award 2627658?

2627658 was awarded to Southern Connecticut State University by National Science Foundation on July 15, 2026.

How much is award 2627658 worth?

$49,979 has been obligated on 2627658.

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