Project Grant V051F190024

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to empower middle school teachers to integrate computational thinking (CT) into their science classrooms. The $564,135 award to North Carolina State University will fund the co-design and testing of 28 new CT-integrated science activities, provide professional development on CT in science for 84 teachers, and iteratively co-design and test an AI-powered tool to support teachers in...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports research and development focused on customizable integrated science, engineering, and computational thinking curriculum for middle school classrooms. The $849,931 project aims to work with 18 teachers and up to 4,800 students in underrepresented STEM populations to investigate how teachers can customize computationally-rich, Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)-aligned curricular...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) provides $889,785 to Cornell University from October 1, 2021 to March 31, 2023 to integrate computational thinking into English language arts and math curricula for grades K-5. The goal is to build an onramp to computer science education for younger students. Cornell will support research design, analysis, and project management. Additionally, $50,000 of the award will...

This $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) aims to redesign an introductory computer science (CS1) course to teach programming with the aid of large language model (LLM) AI assistants. The key goals are to: 1) Redesign the CS1 course to emphasize skills like code reading, testing, and problem decomposition rather than just syntax and writing code from scratch; 2) Study how...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program provides $1,197,134 to the University of Massachusetts for a research-practice partnership studying the impacts of and impediments to diffusing an equity-centered computer science curriculum across 32 elementary schools in the Springfield Public School District through 2025. The University will partner with Springfield Public Schools to employ a teacher-co-designed curriculum integrating computer science...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support a partnership between a rural school district and two community organizations to collaboratively design an innovative middle school computer science-rich curriculum focused on sustainable food production in local community gardens. The $662,973 award, effective January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2027, aims to generate opportunities for rural students to engage in computer science...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program provides $721,534 to the University of Maryland, College Park from September 2022 through August 2025 to develop curricular modules and teacher training materials focused on integrating computer science into linguistically inclusive, transdisciplinary STEM instruction at the elementary school level. Specifically, the award supports a research-practice partnership team in modifying existing lesson plans to include...

The Rochester Institute of Technology was awarded a $671,070 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the federal STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop online laboratories for computer science students. The three-year grant, awarded October 1, 2021 and set to be completed by September 30, 2024, will support the collaborative research project titled "Developing Online Laboratories for Computer Science Students to Learn How to Build Accessible Software and to Use...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $418,509 project grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc., a non-profit organization. The grant will fund a collaborative project with four other universities to develop a generalizable model for integrating computer science education into teacher preparation programs across disciplines. The project aims to address barriers to computer science...

This $299,709 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program will support the Computer Science Alliance, a woman-owned non-profit organization, to launch a multi-subject "Data Science + Artificial Intelligence (DS + AI) National PD Week" for high school teachers across at least 20 U.S. states. The project aims to equip educators with strategies and teaching techniques to integrate emerging...