Project Grant P334A180013

This $2,709,600 federal Project Grant award from the Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) (CFDA 84.334) supports the Vaughn Next Century Learning Center, a U.S. local government entity and school district in San Fernando, California. The grant, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2025, will provide comprehensive educational support services to low-income students to increase...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education awarded the Illinois Student Assistance Commission (ISAC) a $5,000,000 Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) grant (CFDA 84.334) to provide comprehensive educational support services to low-income students in Illinois. The grant, which runs from November 1, 2024 to October 31, 2025, aims to increase high school graduation rates, improve college readiness, and enhance postsecondary enrollment...

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education to deliver the NextGen North Carolina education pilot program. Funded under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy, Promise Neighborhoods, Full-Service Community Schools, and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects federal grant program (CFDA 84.215), the pilot will provide datacasting education services and equipment...

This federal Project Grant award of $3,680,000.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) (CFDA 84.334). The funding supports the "GEAR UP-FIRST RING COLLABORATIVE (GU-FRC)" initiative, a 6-7 year partnership project that aims to improve college access and readiness for low-income students. Key services to be delivered include academic support, financial aid...

This $3.6 million cooperative agreement from the National Institute of Standards and Technology will support the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in developing augmented reality modules and user interfaces to enhance public safety operations. Over the three-year period from August 2022 to July 2025, the university and its subrecipient NextGen Interactions will identify high-priority use cases for augmented reality among first responders, design reusable modules, integrate the modules...

The Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing (RCNGM) will establish a National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education (NSF ATE) Resource Center through this $605,444 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education. The NSF ATE program focuses on preparing technicians for advanced technology fields critical to the U.S. economy. The RCNGM Resource Center will provide online learning resources and professional development opportunities to...

The U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending program (CFDA 17.289) to the non-profit organization Generationed (also registered as Children And Families First). The award, effective February 1, 2024, will fund early childhood education and childcare resources in North Carolina through January 31, 2026. Generationed, which has been engaged in federal grant programs since...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) totaling $727,282 will fund a research project led by Georgia TECH Research Corp titled "Fostering Learning and Adaptability of Future Manufacturing Workers with Intelligent Extended Reality (IXR)". The project aims to develop breakthrough technologies that enable workplace-based learning and rapid upskilling of the manufacturing workforce on complex, cognitively demanding, and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $542,881 to Minnesota State Colleges & Universities (operating as Northland Community & Technical College) to develop an enterprise-level platform that integrates learning management systems with immersive augmented and virtual reality (XR) technologies for technician education. The key goals of the project, titled "KONNECTXR," are to: 1) integrate single sign-on...

The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded Nextgen Interactions LLC $199,903.22 through the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach federal grant program (CFDA 11.620) to build, demonstrate, and evaluate the HAZVR virtual reality air monitoring training module. The project will develop the module in collaboration with hazmat specialists, validate its effectiveness, and test it in classroom settings with hazmat trainees. Upon completion,...