The National Science Foundation’s Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program has recently awarded funding to a wide range of projects. The AISL Program funds five types of projects: (1) Synthesis; (2) Conference; (3) Partnership Development and Planning; (4) Integrating Research and Practice; and (5) Research in Support of Wide-reaching Public Engagement with STEM. You can also use our advanced search function to sort by audience type, disciplinary content, and other tags of interest.
Synthesis
Women in Natural Sciences: A Longitudinal Comparative Case Study of Black Women in STEMM (1995-2015)
Conference
Advancing the Conversation on Scaling National Informal STEM Programs
A conference to encourage and support women creating and distributing STEM media
Conference on Human-Centered Approaches to Artificial Intelligence Literacy in Informal Learning
Integrating Research and Practice
Building Supports Towards a Useful, Usable, and In-Use Framework of Professional Competencies in the Informal STEM Learning Field
Data Science Exhibits: Developing Theoretical Grounding and Practical Guidance for Museum Practitioners
Partnership Development and Planning
Broadening participation, building STEM competencies, and strengthening identity formation through cross-cultural and international collaboration in project-based learning
Collaborative Research: Establishing a Network and Framework for Informal STEM Education for Youth in Native Communities
Collaborative Research: Investigating the Most Impactful Culturally-responsive Informal Pedagogical Practices for STEM Afterschool Programs Engaging Marginalized Youth
Collaborative Research: Learning In and From the Environment through Multiple Ways of Knowing (LIFEways)
Exploratory research and co-design to identify opportunities to support caregiver engagement in early STEM learning
Outgoing IAA: Improving the Coordination and Effectiveness of Youth Programs
A Participatory Design Investigation of the Relationship between Program Setting and Science Identity Development
Research in Support of Wide-reaching Public Engagement with STEM
AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships (2022-2027)
Addressing historic and systemic racial inequities: Coeur d’Alene land-based STEM education
Advancing Public Engagement with Science across the Long-Term Ecological Research Network
BRITE Girls Online STEM Practices: Building Relevance and Identity to Transform Experiences
Data Science Learning Experiences for Middle School-aged Girls in Informal Gaming Clubs
Developing and Studying a Three hour Documentary Series and Live Game Streaming Showing the Relationship of Engineering to the Everyday Built World
Engaging Rural, Latinx Youth in an After School Program That Integrates Design Thinking, Making and Math
Expanding Activities for Outdoor, Nature Situated Making
The Expansion of a Mobile Making Project That Engages Underserved Youth Across California in STEM
Fostering AI Literacy through Embodiment and Creativity across Informal Learning Spaces
Instrument Development: Racially & Ethnically Minoritized Youths’ Varied Out-Of-School-Time Experiences and Their Effects on STEM Attitudes, Identity, and Career Interest
Investigating the impact of youth's inductive exploration of local technologies featured in Indigenous stories on their engagement, self-efficacy, and persistence in STEM
Mathematizing, Visualizing, and Power (MVP): Appalachian Youth Becoming Data Artists for Community Learning
Polar STEAM: Where Curiosity Thrives
Promoting Math in Young Children: Leveraging pediatric clinics to reach underrepresented children in rural communities
Reimagining Equity: An Informal STEM Learning Equity Resource Center
Research to Understand and Inform the Impacts of Ambient and Designed Sound on Informal STEM Learning
REU Site: STEM Education Research through a Social Justice Lens
SCC-IRG Track 1: Enabling Smart Cities in Coastal Regions of Environmental and Industrial Change: Building Adaptive Capacity through Sociotechnical Networks on the Texas Gulf Coast
SCC-IRG Track 1 Designing Smart, Sustainable Risk Reduction in Hazard-Prone Communities: Modeling Risk Across Scales of Time and Space
STEM Pathways for Rural Youth: Developing STEM Identity Through the Outdoors
Using media and technology to advance public awareness of research on microscopic larvae in the deep ocean
Using storytelling and a justice oriented STEM after-school club as critical tools for cultivating African American youths' STEM identities
Youth Engaging in the Science of Resilience: Sensing the Environment and Envisioning Solutions