Project Grant H982301410007

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $305,000 to Talk Coaches Inc. to develop an AI-powered feedback system for enhancing literacy and creative thinking skills for students in grades 3-8. The project, titled "AI-Enhanced Feedback to Accelerate Literacy, Creativity, and Student Engagement," aims to transform the English language learning experience by providing immediate AI-driven...

This $256,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) program will fund the development of an intelligent language learning environment by Pangea Chat LLC. The company will create a machine learning solution to support conversation-based foreign language education. The system will analyze student text chats to identify learning objectives and automatically generate practice activities. It aims to increase student confidence and engagement in initial conversations...

The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded The University of Texas at El Paso $291,204 on August 1, 2026, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to conduct experimental research on how shared book reading interactions support dual language and literacy skills in preschool-age children. The research team designed custom dual-language books that systematically vary language balance (the proportion of text in each...

This $350,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to prepare science teachers to engage multilingual learners in scientific argumentation through mixed-reality simulations. The key goals are to identify essential elements in teacher-student interactions that help elicit student thinking to improve scientific argumentation among secondary multilingual learners, and to explore the preliminary effects, acceptability, and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program provides $200,000 to support a time-sensitive project that aims to empower teachers to harness the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) to create interactive, personalized STEM learning resources. The project team, led by the Regents of the University of Michigan, will partner with WGBH Educational Foundation to develop a teacher-AI...

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded $267,503 under the Public Diplomacy Programs federal grant (CFDA 19.040) to support the performance of "Song of the Shank" by U.S. artists at the 2023 Wiener Festwochen festival in Austria. George Lewis will compose and Jeffery Renard Allen will author and write the libretto for the musical work. Stan Douglas will contribute visual art, and the Ensemble Modern will perform the piece at the June 13-15, 2023...

This $299,963 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of culturally and linguistically sustaining STEM pedagogies using mixed-reality simulations at the University of West Florida from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2024. The project aims to improve undergraduate STEM education students' ability to teach in a culturally and linguistically sustaining way through online modules, focused mentor feedback, and practice teaching with virtual avatars in mixed-reality...

EXCEL Thru Arts Integration Project Grant Summary Artsnow, Inc. received a $3.99M project grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Arts in Education program (CFDA 84.351), awarded October 1, 2025, with completion scheduled for September 30, 2026. The Expanding Creativity, Engagement and Literacy (EXCEL) Thru Arts Integration project will deliver arts-integrated educational programming and support designed to enhance student literacy,...

This SBIR Phase I project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084), aims to develop an innovative AI-driven platform for interactive language learning designed for young children. The $303,226 award will fund the creation of a personalized, adaptive solution that uses phoneme recognition and learning algorithms to track, assess, and respond to the individual language progress of each child. The platform is designed...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $299,963 aims to destigmatize disfluencies in speech artificial intelligence (AI) by partnering with the grassroots stuttering community organization "StammerTalk". The key objectives are to: (a) develop metrics, tools, and techniques to measure and address fluency biases in existing automatic speech recognition (ASR) models, and (b) study StammerTalk's...