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INTRODUCTION
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In a globally networked, highly mobile society, education has few boundaries: learning can take place anywhere, and at any time of life. Partnerships across sectors can ensure that the latest information about what works in formal and informal education is mobilized to help prepare all of the nation's citizens to fully participate in this fast-changing world. The National Science Foundation (NSF) works with the National Governors Association (NGA) and others to ensure that all America's citizens receive a solid grounding in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), and that teaching, learning and technology are used to maximum advantage in preparing our youth for successful careers and informed citizenship. The Highlights below are examples of NSF funded projects that have made a difference.
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FEATURED HIGHLIGHTS
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Bringing Science to a
Neighborhood Near You
Community Science Workshops (CSW): Beginning a National Movement is an innovative project that brings science to socioeconomically disadvantaged...
State: Massachusetts
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development
PEEP Continues to Captivate Preschoolers
PEEP AND THE BIG WIDE WORLD, a daily, half-hour television series with accompanying Web and outreach activities for 2-to-5 year olds,...
State: Massachusetts
Topics: Science & Engineering Education
Teachers Set Sail for the School of Rock
Thirteen middle school, high school, and museum educators from around the United States recently set sail from Victoria, Canada, for...
State: District Of Columbia
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development
Extreme 2003
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Division of Ocean Science provided funding for outreach programs, called EXTREME 2000 and...
State: Delaware
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development
EDGE: Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education
The Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) program, jointly funded by the National Science Foundation and the Andrew...
State: Pennsylvania
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development
The best science class
ever!
Professor John Tully at Yale University has developed an undergraduate chemistry course designed for non-science majors, Chemistry,...
State: Connecticut
Topics: Science & Engineering Education
Where Biology Meets
Business
Large science and technology centers provide a unique opportunity for scientists to conduct research and outreach on sizeable, long-term...
State: Georgia
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development
ATE Center Responds
to the Changing ICT Industry
The dot-com bust of the late 1990’s resulted in a convergence of the Telecommunications Industries and the Information Technologies...
State: Massachusetts
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development
Learning to Teach Mathematics to All Students
The National Science Foundation-funded Mathematics for All project, conducted by Bank Street College of Education and the Education...
State: New York
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development
Tennessee State CREST
discovers another planet
Funded by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) program since 1998,...
State: Tennessee
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development
College Professors and K-12 Teachers Learn from One Another
Among the partnerships of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Math and Science Partnership (MSP) program, there is a growing practice...
State: New York, Pennsylvania
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development
GLOBE Program Heads
in New Directions
In the past decade, the NASA-NSF-sponsored Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program has engaged...
State: Alaska, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development
Partnership Catalyzes SOP-based Industry
The Georgia Tech Packaging Research Center (PRC), a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center (ERC), completed its 10-year...
State: Georgia
Topics: Challenges of Our Time, Science & Engineering Education, Technological Advances, Workforce & Economic Development
HBCUs lead the way in STEM degrees conferred
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Undergraduate Program provides awards to...
State: Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development
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Current NSF Abstracts
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: From Local to Extreme Environments: Deepening Earth Systems Science Understanding with GLOBE
GLOB LEARN & OBSER TO BEN ENVI
Awarded to: Elizabeth Goehring, Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, Aug 15, 2006
Chemical Dynamics in Condensed Phases and at Surfaces
QUANTUM CALCULATIONS
Awarded to: John Tully, Yale University, Aug 1, 2006
Science Education Resources
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