Results for ITEST Projects

  • Beyond Blackboards: Integrated Methods for STEM Education and Workforce Development
    The University of Texas (UT) Cockrell School of Engineering is joining with Skillpoint Alliance, a Central Texas education and workforce development agency, and Round Rock ISD, a rapidly growing district serving a diverse population of more than 40,000 students, to deploy an integrated approach to engaging middle school students, teachers, counselors, administrators, parents and caregivers in activities that improve awareness and understanding of a range of STEM career and college pathways.
  • CommunITy Studios
    In Texas the CommunITy Studios project will offer 70 middle and high school youths activities in information technology (IT) and science, technology engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education.
  • CSI: Creating Student Investigators
    Sixty mid-south Delta region (Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Missouri) teachers will work with 120 students on team-based inquiry forensic science activities and career exploration.
  • Delta Agriculture Middle School Applied Life Science (DAMSALS 2)
    Seventy science, technology, and math teachers in grades 7–12 work with 180 students in the Mississippi Delta region of northeast Louisiana, using GPS devices and graphing calculators with CBLs to collect data for agricultural science.
  • DesignIT Studio
    160 minority middle school students in Fort Worth, Texas are building fluency with IT by designing electronic gadgets and creating interactive programs.
  • IT Girl: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Solving Real World Problems Using 3D Modeling and Information Visualization
    One hundred middle and high school girls from the Austin, TX area use information visualization and gaming development to make real world connections to science, math and engineering.
  • M-SOS-W: Middle Schoolers Out to Save the World
    Four hundred fifty middle school students from six schools in Louisiana, Maine, Texas, and Vermont will monitor home energy consumption under the supervision of their teachers and use data gathered to develop optimal scenarios for conserving energy and reducing the production of greenhouse gases.
  • M2T2 - Maximizing Motivation, Targeting Technology
    One hundred and eight middle school students along with 18 teachers from rural northeast Texas districts engage in creating gaming components that model mathematics & science activities.
  • National Middle School Aerospace Scholars (NaMAS)
    One hundred and fifty middle-grades science, mathematics, and technology teachers and 600 students in an eight-state region (CO, KS, ND, NE, NM, OK, SD, TX) learn about and experience Information Technology as utilized in the aerospace industry.
  • Project LA COSTA
    Two hundred and fifty Hispanic students in grades 8–10 from 5 Central and South Texas school districts participate in a computer science academy, and learn about computer hardware, operating systems, programming, Web design, and network management.
  • Science Mission to Planet Earth (SMPE): IT–Integrated Coastal Education
    Six hundred middle school students and 60 teachers in Madison Parish and Baton Rouge, Louisiana gather and transmit data images via GIS Remote Sensing and set up situations or displays via visualization simulations to study earth science concepts related to issues of the Louisiana Coastal Zone.
  • Tech-Success
    One hundred and ten middle and high school students with disabilities in the Oklahoma City Schools participate in year round, innovative, in-depth activities using the Tech Now curriculum; engage in individual projects, visit college and technology training center and participate in job shadowing.
  • The POD Project: Harnessing the Power of Data
    This project increases (STEM) skills through problem-based learning modules in which 9-12 grade students solve problems through data collection and analysis utilizing geospatial technologies. Professional development is provided for 40 secondary teachers in Career and Technical Education (CTE), mathematics, and science. Participants and researchers then examine the effectiveness of the modules on the learning and science and technology efficacy of 800 secondary students.