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Date: 02/11/2019
Resource Category!: Conference Proceedings
This project created a social programmable robot to engage middle school girls in computer programming. ... »
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Date: 02/11/2019
Resource Category!: Conference Proceedings
This poster explores three programs that engage underrepresented youth in physics learning through dance. ... »
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Date: 02/11/2019
Resource Category!: Conference Proceedings
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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Date: 02/11/2019
Resource Category!: Conference Proceedings
In this participatory research project, a partnership between the Kitty Andersen Youth Science Center (KAYSC) and the Department of Evaluation and Research in Learning at the Science Museum of Minnesota, participants are working to rename and reclaim theory and research methods so as to foster relevance and equity. We have renamed the theory of ... »
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Date: 11/15/2021
Resource Category!: Conference Proceedings
This poster was presented at the 2021 National Science Foundation (NSF) Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) Awardee Meeting. The goal of this two-year project is to examine systemic issues within learning spaces and provide educators with anti-racist approaches that validate and uplift Black learners. Through a combination of media, educator ... »
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Date: 11/17/2021
Resource Category!: Conference Proceedings
This poster was presented at the 2021 NSF AISL Awardee Meeting. Collaborative robots – cobots – are designed to work with humans, not replace them. What learning affordances are created in educational games when learners program robots to assist them in a game instead of being the game? What game designs work best? ... »
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Date: 11/04/2021
Resource Category!: Conference Proceedings
This poster was presented at the 2021 NSF AISL Awardee Meeting. Since 2006, the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MagLab) through the Center for Integrating Research and Learning (CIRL) has offered a SciGirls Summer Camp to introduce middle school girls to various fields of science. Code: SciGirls was created in 2017 to increase the ... »
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Date: 11/04/2021
Resource Category!: Conference Proceedings
In Research + Practice Partnerships with 4 makerspaces in 2 cities, we pursue equity-oriented STEM-rich making with youth from historically underrepresented backgrounds, particularly BIPOC youth and youth in refugee & low-income communities, towards developing: a theory-based and data-driven framework for equitably consequential making a set ... »
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Date: 11/04/2021
Resource Category!: Conference Proceedings
The ChemAttitudes project recieved supplemental funding to create materials for train-the-trainer workshops in order to inoculate the chemistry outreach community with members who have the knowledge and resources to train others on strategies for stimulating interest, sense of relevance, and feelings of self-efficacy that were tested in the ... »
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Date: 09/15/2021
Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
This project will draft a framework to guide citizen science projects in addressing issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). Citizen science, sometimes called community science, involves volunteers who use science research procedures to collect valid scientific data for research projects and who often learn much about science in the ... »