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Parents are vital players in raising youth’s awareness of the value of STEM and in brokering their participation in activities that build STEM competencies. STEM Next Opportunity Fund is committed to ensuring that every child – especially girls, youth of color, kids in low-income communities, and youth with disabilities – has access to STEM experiences and the social capital that lead to greater opportunities in academics and careers. We believe family engagement is a game changer and offer this white paper to raise awareness of its importance and amplify promising practices.
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resource research Public Programs
This poster was presented at the 2019 AISL PI Meeting, and describes the the ongoing research questions and goals of the Ute STEM Project, which explores the integration of the traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of the Ute Indians of Colorado and Utah and Western science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
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TEAM MEMBERS: Liz Cook Shannon Voirol Sheila Goff Cassandra Atencio Garrett Briggs Alden Naranjo Betsy Chapoose Terry Knight, Sr. Nicole Shurack Richard Ott Carl Conner Kelly Kindscher Kate Livingston
resource evaluation Media and Technology
AHA! Island is a new project that uses animation, live-action videos, and hands-on activities to support joint engagement of children and caregivers around computational thinking concepts and practices. This research is intended to examine the extent to which the prototyped media and activity sets support the project’s learning goals. Education Development Center (EDC), WGBH’s research partner for the project, conducted a small formative study with 16 English-speaking families (children and their caregivers) to test out these media and activity set prototypes. During the in-person video
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TEAM MEMBERS: Marisa Wolsky Heather Lavigne Jessica Andrews Leslie Cuellar
resource research Public Programs
This project created a social programmable robot to engage middle school girls in computer programming.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Erin Walker Amy Ogan Kimberly Scott
resource research Public Programs
This poster explores three programs that engage underrepresented youth in physics learning through dance.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Folshade Cromwell Solomon Tracey Wright Lawrence Pratt Vandana Singh Mariah Steele Robin Thompson Dionne Champion Christina Bebe
resource research Public Programs
In partnership with the Digital NEST, students engage in near to peer learning with a technical tool for the benefit of a nonprofit that tackles issues the youth are passionate about. Youth build first from an 'internal’ Impactathon, to planning and developing an additional Impactathon for a local partner and then traveling to another partner elsewhere in the state. Participants range from 14 to 24 from UC Santa Cruz students to middle schoolers from Watsonville and Salinas. This poster was presented at the 2019 AISL Principal Investigators Meeting.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Amber Holguin
resource research Public Programs
The maker movement has evoked interest for its role in breaking down barriers to STEM learning. However, few empirical studies document how youth are supported over time, in STEM-rich making projects or their outcomes. This longitudinal critical ethnographic study traces the development of 41 youth maker projects in two community-centered making programs. Building a conceptual argument for an equity-oriented culture of making, the authors discuss the ways in which making with and in community opened opportunities for youth to project their communities’ rich culture knowledge and wisdom onto
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resource research Public Programs
This poster, which was presented in Alexandria, VA at the CAISE AISL PI meeting in February 2019, summarizes the Under the Arctic: Digging into Permafrost traveling exhibition developed for the Hidden World of Permafrost project.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Victoria Coats Matthew Sturm Laura Conner
resource research Exhibitions
This poster, which was presented in Alexandria, VA at the CAISE AISL PI meeting in February 2019, summarizes the Winter Worlds/Snow: Musuem Exhibit, Educational Outreach, and Learning Research collaborative project that engages audiences in snow as a platform to explore Earth’s climate system and explores how culture affects STEM learning in informal settings.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Matthew Sturm Victoria Coats Deborah Wasserman
resource research Public Programs
This poster was presented at the 2019 NSF AISL Principal Investigators Meeting, and describes a project conducting science cafes in Richmond, VA.
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resource research Media and Technology
The STEM + Digital Literacies (STEM+L) project investigates science fiction composing as an effective mechanism to attract and immerse adolescents (ages 10-13) from diverse cultural backgrounds in socio-scientific issues related to environment. The participating students (G5-8) work in small groups to design and produce STEM content rich, multimedia science fictions during the summer (1 week) and the academic year (4-6 2.5hr sessions). Culminating activities include student presentations at a local science fiction film festival. The research component employs an iterative, design-based
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TEAM MEMBERS: Ji Shen Blaine Smith
resource research Media and Technology
Latina SciGirls addresses specific barriers that prevent many young Latinas from participating fully in STEM, including: Lack of STEM identity (girls’ ability to envision themselves as STEM professionals) Limited exposure to STEM role models who look like them Lack of knowledge and/or misunderstanding of STEM fields
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TEAM MEMBERS: Rita Karl Alicia Santiago Brenda Britsch Brad McLain Valerie Knight-Williams