Projects

1997 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Sharon Stenglein
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Technology Research ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Graduate Level ◽  
New Learning ◽  
National Science ◽  
K 12 ◽  
The University ◽  
Technology Resources

Outreach and connections with K–12 education are part of the mission of the Geometry Center, a Science and Technology Research Center funded by the National Science Foundation and the University of Minnesota. One vehicle for this outreach is an intensive summer course for teachers in which they experience new learning using the center's technology resources. A graduate-level mathematics course, “Technology in the Geometry Classroom,” was created at the Geometry Center by director Richard McGehee with two graduate students, Eduardo Tabacman and Evelyn Sander, and two postdoctoral fellows, Chaim Goodman-Strauss and Heidi Burgiel.

scholarly journals Moving beyond GK–12

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Ufnar ◽  
Susan Kuner ◽  
V. L. Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Classroom Activity ◽  
Potential Models ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
National Science ◽  
Internet Searches ◽  
K 12

The National Science Foundation GK–12 program has made more than 300 awards to universities, supported thousands of graduate student trainees, and impacted thousands of K–12 students and teachers. The goals of the current study were to determine the number of sustained GK–12 programs that follow the original GK–12 structure of placing graduate students into classrooms and to propose models for universities with current funding or universities interested in starting a program. Results from surveys, literature reviews, and Internet searches of programs funded between 1999 and 2008 indicated that 19 of 188 funded sites had sustained in-classroom programs. Three distinct models emerged from an analysis of these programs: a full-stipend model, in which graduate fellows worked with partner teachers in a K–12 classroom for 2 d/wk; a supplemental stipend model in which fellows worked with teachers for 1 d/wk; and a service-learning model, in which in-classroom activity was integrated into university academic coursework. Based on these results, potential models for sustainability and replication are suggested, including establishment of formal collaborations between sustained GK–12 programs and universities interested in starting in-classroom programs; development of a new Teaching Experience for Fellows program; and integration of supplemental fellow stipends into grant broader-impact sections.

The Humacao Strange Matter Exhibition: Prem Brings Materials Science and Nanotechnology to Puerto Rican Communities

2008 ◽  
Vol 1105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Idalia Ramos ◽  
Ramón A. Rivera ◽  
Nicholas J. Pinto ◽  
José Sotero ◽  
Esther Vega ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Strange Matter ◽  
National Science ◽  
Materials Research ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
K 12 ◽  
The University

AbstractThe “UPRH-PENN Partnership for Research and Education in Materials” (PREM) is sponsored by the Division of Materials Research of the National Science Foundation and since 2004 it has contributed to increasing the participation of Puerto Rican men and women in materials research and education. The program integrates K-12, undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty collaborating through research and education in a partnership between the University of Puerto Rico at Humacao (UPRH) along with UPRC and UPRRP and the University of Pennsylvania Materials Research Science & Engineering Center. The UPRH-PREM has strong links with schools in the eastern region of Puerto Rico and has successfully integrated K-12 students and teachers into the program through workshops, web resources, open houses, a Summer Program and research experiences during the academic year. In an effort to integrate the wider community into the outreach efforts, from October to December 2007 PREM hosted the presentation of the Interactive Materials Science Exhibition “Strange Matter”. “Strange Matter” was designed and produced by the Materials Research Society (MRS) in conjunction with the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto. Funding for the project is being provided by the National Science Foundation and industrial partners 3M, Dow, Ford, Intel, and Alcan. The exhibition brings interactive activities that highlight the fact that materials science is all around us. This exhibition is the first and only one in the island of Puerto Rico and was presented at UPRH's Casa Roig Museum, a historic plantation house located in downtown Humacao. Local scientists complemented the exhibition with live demonstrations and talks to provide deeper explanations and motivate young visitors to study materials. To make the exhibition possible, PREM integrated UPR-Humacao administration, faculty, students, non-teaching workers, Casa Roig staff, schools, Humacao municipality, local businesses and individual citizens. Dozens of students, faculty and other members of the community were mobilized as volunteers to support all aspects of the exhibition.

Senior Designs to Aid the Disabled: The UAB Experience

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan W. Eberhardt ◽  
Laura K. Vogtle ◽  
Gary Edwards
Keyword(s):  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
University Of Alabama ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Senior Design ◽  
National Science ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
The University

Abstract This paper presents a review of two years experience regarding senior design projects to aid persons with disabilities, for mechanical engineering students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). The efforts are funded by the National Science Foundation and are aimed at developing alternative, low cost, custom devices to aid specific disabled individuals or targeted groups. A collaboration has been established with UAB Occupational Therapy and United Cerebral Palsy of Birmingham (UCP), who have provided projects which combine depth in both engineering and life sciences. The “UAB experience” described in the following includes project selection, development, student advising and overall significance. Completed designs are listed, along with efforts to bring the products to a marketable level.

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