Results for ITEST Projects

  • CincySTEM Urban Initiative
    Project CincySTEM will enhance cutting-edge science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education for minority students enrolled in the new Hughes STEM High School in Cincinnati, Ohio.
  • Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program (DAPCEP) Engineering and IT Project-C5
    One hundred and twenty African American and Latino 7th and 9th grade students and 180 parents and caregivers in the Detroit area use information technology to solve engineering problems. Students acquire experience with scientific and engineering laboratories on college and corporate campuses.
  • Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program (DAPCEP) Engineering Project-C1
    120 African American and Latino 7th and 9th grade students and 180 parents and caregivers in the Detroit area use information technology to solve engineering problems. Students acquire experience with scientific and engineering laboratories on college and corporate campuses.
  • Fostering Interest in Information Technology
    Eighty high-school students, eight K-12 STEM teachers, eight U/GSAs, and eight post-secondary STEM content experts in Southeastern Michigan engage in four project-based design teams, each focusing on an IT-intensive STEM areas, to learn about experience, and use IT in environmental science, web-based applications (games, databases), robotics, and bioinformatics while gaining experience using GIS, GPS, Vpython, Visual Studio, IGRIP, and Minitab software systems.
  • High School Enterprise
    Eight diverse teacher-coached High School Enterprise teams (six in Michigan, one in Georgia, and one in Puerto Rico), each comprising up to twenty students (160 students) who come from all income levels and from all groups underrepresented in STEM, will form "virtual" companies that work with actual clients to tackle STEM- and ICT-based problems and, through problem-based learning, develop services and products ultimately intended for distribution through the marketplace.
  • Investigating Green Energy Technologies in the City (GET City)
    In GET City, seventy students, twenty parents, and several community leaders in Lansing Michigan are investigating the need for and the design of green energy technologies that matter in the city in an IT-rich science and engineering environment that draws upon GIS technology, scientific modeling, and field experiences, and the communication of community-relevant outcomes through digital media.
  • It's About Discovery
    It’s About Discovery implements the new Ford Partnerships for Advanced Studies curriculum module called Working Toward Sustainability with a primary focus of engaging over 400 ninth grade students and 20 teachers from underserved schools in OH and NC in inquiry based science activities that encourage students to pursue science, engineering, and technology in high school and beyond, and secondly the project provides teachers with professional development activities to ensure quality teaching and understanding of the content.
  • Mayor's Youth Technology Corps - Creating Safe Communities Through Information Technology Training in Homeland Security Applications
    One hundred high school students in two cohorts in Metropolitan Detroit are engaged in IT learning experiences focusing on geographic information system and technology (GIS/T) and information assurance (IA) coupled with hands-on internship experiences in homeland security applications.
  • Museum Tech Academy
    In Springfield, Illinois, 90 students ages 12–17 are learning about and conducting research in archeology and natural sciences (geology, botany, zoology) using information technology and field-based experiences.
  • Nature Works Studios
    Forty five students (with a focus on African Americans, Latinos, and girls) in Chicago are learning environmental science and using IT to share what they’ve learned with peers and visitors to the Nature Museum.
  • PURSE: Promoting Underrepresented Girls Involvement in Research, Science, and Energy
    PURSE a program where Metropolitan Detroit high school girls in grades 9-11, participate in project based out-of-school time in space and engineering activities that teach concepts related to the production and storage of energy.
  • Surprising Possibilities Imagined and Realized through Information Technology (SPIRIT2)
    Sixty-five high school teachers in Indiana learn to use the Alice programming tool to enhance STEM instruction while simultaneously demonstrating appealing aspects of IT to their students, with a focus on girls.
  • Transforming Interests in STEM Careers (TISC)
    Transforming Interests into STEM Careers (TISC), will test a model for promoting a STEM college-going culture in two high schools. The main goal of the intervention model is to encourage adolescents to pursue STEM majors in college and occupations in these fields.
  • Translating Information Technology Into Classrooms: Teacher-Student's Research on Lake Erie Ecosystem
    Forty five science, mathematics, and technology teachers and 225 of their students in Michigan conduct research projects that use IT to study the Lake Erie ecosystem.