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This poster was presented at the 2019 AISL PI Meeting in Washington, DC. It provides an overview of a project designed to broaden participation of blind students in engineering fields through the development of spatial ability skills and the showcasing of nonvisually accessible teaching methods and techniques.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Seth Lamkin Anil Lewis Wade Goodridge Natalie Shaheen Mary Ann Wojton Ann Cunningham Peter Anderson
resource research Public Programs
We hired 1-3 residents of rural communities to serve as STEM Guides”, connecting youth to informal STEM experiences.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Sue Allen Jan Mokros Jennifer Atkinson Scott Byrd Kate Kastelein
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
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 Informal/Formal Connections
In the face of geographic isolation & turnover, how can informal STEM programs maintain community to change rural school culture? This poster was presented at the 2019 NSF AISL PI Meeting.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Susan Assouline Lori Ihrig Duhita Mahatmya
resource research Media and Technology
Casual games are everywhere. People play them throughout life to pass the time, to engage in social interactions, and to learn. However, their simplicity and use in distraction-heavy environments can attenuate their potential for learning. This experimental study explored the effects playing an online, casual game has on awareness of human biological systems. Two hundred and forty-two children were given pretests at a Museum and posttests at home after playing either a treatment or control game. Also, 41 children were interviewed to explore deeper meanings behind the test results. Results show
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TEAM MEMBERS: Aaron Price Katherine Gean Claire Christensen Elham Beheshti Bryn Pernot Gloria Segovia Halcyon Person Steven Beasley Patricia Ward
resource research Public Programs
We present results of an experimental study of an urban, museum-based science teacher PD programme. A total of 125 teachers and 1676 of their students in grades 4–8 were tested at the beginning and end of the school year in which the PD programme took place. Teachers and students were assessed on subject content knowledge and attitudes towards science, along with teacher classroom behaviour. Subject content questions were mostly taken from standardised state tests and literature, with an ‘Explain:’ prompt added to some items. Teachers in the treatment group showed a 7% gain in subject content
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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 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
resource research Media and Technology
The goal of this three-year project is to leverage NSF’s investment in both SciGirls and computer science education by engaging 8-13 year-old girls in computational thinking and coding through innovative transmedia programming which inspires and prepares them for future computer science studies and careers.
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resource research Media and Technology
SciGirls CONNECT 2 is a three-year NSF project that examines how the gender equitable and culturally responsive strategies currently employed in the SciGirls informal STEM educational program influences middle school girls’ STEM identity formation.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Rita Karl Alicia Santiago Karen Peterson Roxanne Hughes