2016 innovation generation grant recipients

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2016 INNOVATION GENERATION GRANT RECIPIENTS

National

American Indian Science and Engineering Society AISES works with two schools serving primarily Native American students to build the capacity of 8 educators to incorporate teaching skills related to robotics and to reach up to 100 students with information on the scientific method and discovery to encourage the pursuit of additional STEM education. In addition, more than two dozen students benefits from increased, interactive and age-appropriate STEM education activities through robotics programming Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy The Center for Leadership and Diversity in STEM provides a comprehensive program that extends from the elementary, middle, and high school levels through the graduate and professional levels, seeking to build an overall stronger national STEM pipeline. The Center reaches approximately 1,500 students through more than 15 Mobile STEM Workshops as well as more than 50 STEM professionals though lectures and conferences. Code.org Code.org provides an AP high school computer science course in key regions including Chicago, IL; Seattle, WA; Salt Lake City, UT, Houston, TX; and New York City, NY. Approximately 8,000 students will take the official AP exam in the spring of 2017.

Destination Imagination, Inc. Destination Imagination’s Scientific Challenge teaches the creative process, critical thinking, innovation, team work and other 21st Century learning skills through hands-on activities to over 200,000 K-University students globally. DiscoverE DiscoverE's Girl Day, Global Marathon and Future City Competition programs inspire 500,000 girls a year to explore engineering, engage 2,000 female engineers around the globe in impactful conversations that transcend borders and tasks middle school students to tackle difficult engineering challenges using the engineering design process. Epics K12 Epics K12 will broaden student pathways into STEM careers by engaging an additional 1,o00 teachers throughout the nation in high-quality professional development designed to promote


community-based, human-centered, service-learning and engineering design through on-site and online training, regional hub workshops, or curricular partnerships. FIRST FIRST programs provides approximately 2,000 students with hands-on opportunities to apply math and science concepts to design, build, test and compete with robots in the United States and abroad. Girl Scouts of the USA The 2016-2017 Girl Scouts Robotics program provides hands-on learning in STEM, and specifically in engineering, to approximately 500 girls with a projected indirect reach of 9,000 girls through related events across the United States. Girlstart Girlstart reaches more than 700 girls through immersive STEM education programs in the form of summer camps in California, Illinois, Texas and Washington. Girls Who Code Girls Who Code Clubs brings high-quality computer science education to 6th--12th grade girls nationwide, meeting after school and on weekends throughout the year in classrooms, libraries, community centers, and local universities. IEEE Foundation, Incorporated Through its Awards Program, IEEE advances the interests of its members by recognizing their contributions in advancing the fields of interest to IEEE to the benefit of society. Specifically, the IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award for Emerging Technologies is presented for outstanding contributions to emerging technologies recognized within recent years. National 4H Council In an unprecedented collaboration, the nation's largest youth development organizations - Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Girls Inc., National 4-H Council and YMCA of the USA - have joined forces to bring STEM to youth most in need through new, high quality informal STEM learning opportunities never before offered to them. This program pilot reaches approximately 5,000 youth in California, Nebraska and Texas. National Center for Women & IT The NCWIT Aspirations in Computing initiative provides year-round outreach and training for educators to better serve unserved and underserved girls in technology. National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals, Inc. The National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals provides scholarships and enhanced mentoring opportunities for LGBTQ+ students and early career professionals in STEM.


Science Buddies The Engineering Safety Program supports unique content on the Science Buddies website, challenging students to apply STEM principles to address public safety problems.. Society of Women Engineers Be That Engineer encourages more than 2,500 6-18 year olds to join SWENext and offers them online programming that engages and inspires them to pursue engineering and technology while high school girls will be encouraged to participate in FIRST Robotics competitions and outreach programming at SWE's Annual Conference. Ten80 Foundation Ten80 Foundation’s programming provides hands-on engagement to approximately 1000 high school students. Students then showcase their work in local and final events. The National Society of Black Engineers The Summer Engineering Experience for Kids is a STEM pipeline exposes underrepresented children to STEM fields as early as the third grade. The program offers hands-on engineering activities to 300 students in grades 3-5. Truechild, Inc. TrueChild’s curriculum provides teachers with research-based best practices on engaging and maintaining girls’ interest in STEM concepts and programming. One hundred teachers receive this important training each year through the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity Education’s professional development programming.

Virginia Tech Foundation The Spectrum Sharing Radio Contest challenges approximately 100 undergraduate and graduate students from across the U.S. as well as abroad to develop software for adaptive learning controllers or radio waveform signal processing to solve problems related to dynamic spectrum access.

Arizona Science Foundation of Arizona The AZ Computer Science Coding Academy Pipeline program is an after-school STEM program that provides instructions and activities in coding, robotics, and computational thinking.

California Cal Poly Pomona Foundation, Inc. The Femineers program empowers female high school students to become through more than 30 hours of workshops, ranging from coding to robotics.


Elementary Institute of Science Steps-2-STEM removes barriers to hands-on STEM education by providing bus transportation and scholarships to the EIS Science and Technology Learning Center for Southeast San Diego elementary school students on early release days. Students participate in high-quality STEM learning labs five hours a week for five weeks. National Indian Justice Center The Mobilizing Youth for Safe Transportation Challenge provides hands-on information technology education to more than 25 Native American youth in the San Diego region in a one-week summer camp. During the summer camp, youth design mobile applications that emergency responders and bystanders can use to collect information and report motor vehicle crashes on California tribal lands. Science and Technology Education Partnership STEM Learning Labs engages more than 100 Riverside High School students in an intensive week of hands-on STEM learning, including coding, robotics, crime scene management and big data analytics. Students then work in teams to develop an innovation to assist first responders help create safer cities. Workshops for Warriors Workshops for Warriors provides enrollment, orientation, course instruction, hands-on training, and post-graduation placement assistance to 150 veterans living in San Diego. One of the course areas is computer aided manufacturer and provides a SolidWorks certification upon course completion.

Florida

Consortium of Florida Education Foundations STEM Solutions for Florida's Future involves nine projects throughout Florida, each directly involving a minimum of 100 students and providing each student with 20 contact hours in problem-solving and application of STEM skills with workplace partners.

Florida Atlantic University The Women in Engineering/Computer Science program provides comprehensive support services, mentoring, events and activities to approximately 400 female engineering/computer science majors at Florida Atlantic University’s Boca Raton campus. Florida Sheriffs Association The FSA Stem Scholarship Program awards scholarships to ten deserving children of Sheriff's Office employees pursuing degrees in STEM-related fields of study. Great Minds in STEM


Great Minds in STEM directly engages over 200 K-20 students, parents, educators annually in programs at middle schools near Plantation, FL. In addition, college students receive online mentoring opportunities to encourage persistence in their own STEM educations. NPower, Inc. The TCC Choose Tech program provides coding classes in Python programming to 30 elementary school students from Plantation, Florida. The program culminates with a career site visit where students share their work and see firsthand technology careers in action. University of Florida Career Resource Center The See Yourself in STEM program prepares students to succeed in STEM careers by fostering students’ soft and technical skills through STEM exposure sessions, workshops, employer panels and a technical case competition.

Western High School The STEM CARES program provides intensive project-based STEM learning opportunities to approximately 400 K-12 students in South Florida. Each student receives 100 hours of training throughout the year in biotechnology, robotics, rocketry and renewable projects.

Georgia Georgia Robotics Alliance The G3 Drones for Good program engages 300 students, teachers, and professional engineering mentors from the Atlanta area in a STEM competition where middle and high school students work with their mentors and teachers to develop an innovative UAV-based solution to a real world problem. Georgia Tech Foundation The Engineering for Social Innovation Center provides project-based learning in engineering and information technology for a cohort of 20 undergraduate students each semester and 25 high school students each year. Students are then tasked to design and implement projects to greatly improve and impact non-profit organizations across Georgia.

Illinois Adler Planetarium The Adler Planetarium's Summer Enrichment Programs provides interactive and unique STEM experiences to more than 1,000 Chicago-area students. After School Matters, Inc. After School Matters provides information technology and engineering programs to approximately 100 Chicago teens.


Big Shoulders Fund The Big Shoulders Fund STEM Initiative provides academic enrichment and professional development programs that work in tandem to support student engagement, learning and achievement. Center for Neighborhood Technology The Urban Sustainability Apps Competition brings together community leaders and coders to create data-driven apps that solve important issues in Chicago’s neighborhoods. Chicago Academy of Sciences The School Science Partnership provides two Chicago Public Schools with an in-depth coaching and modeling program to improve instructional processes that align with Next Generation Science Standards.

Chicago Pre-College Science and Engineering Program, Inc. Chicago Pre-College Science and Engineering Program provides hands-on out-of-school science, math, and engineering activities to 460 K-8 students in Chicago.

Chicago Public Schools Student Science Fair, Inc. The Chicago Public Schools Student Science Fair impacts more than 12,000 students in grades 7-12 as they create and present their STEM research projects. Chicago Youth Centers The Chicago Youth Centers Maker Lab program develops students' interest and experience in STEAM, with a particular emphasis in the fields of technology, IT, and engineering. Students learn to code, manipulate vectors and use a 3-D printer while cultivating professional skills, including creative thinking, teamwork and more. Citizen Schools Citizen Schools impacts students through STEM apprenticeships at five Chicago Public Schools. These STEM apprenticeships provide students with an opportunity to master STEM content while learning directly from STEM professionals.

DePaul University InSTEM provides collaborative engineering and computer science experiences to more than 100 middle school and high school girls from underserved neighborhoods. Activities focus on logical, mathematical and analytical thinking skills to enhance STEM concept comprehension as well as student confidence in computer technology use. District Fifteen Educational Foundation The FIRST® LEGO® League program introduces the fun and excitement of hands-on engineering and technology programming to approximately 250 fourth through eighth grade students through an after-school program. Field Museum


The Field Museum’s Design Challenge stations support the participation of nearly 500 students in engineering solutions to real world problems inspired by Field Museum science. In addition, multiple Field Museum interns will design an augmented reality game that will be layered onto cases in the Plants of the World Hall with the support of digital learning educators and design professionals. FIRST Illinois Robotics FIRST Illinois Robotics supports the participation of over 3,600 students in Illinois in the FIRST LEGO League robotics education program with a special focus of expanding reach to underserved students in the city of Chicago.

Future Founders Foundation Future Founders Foundation provides approximately 2,000 students from middle schools and high schools in Chicago and colleges in Chicagoland and beyond with entrepreneurship programs. This programming provides students with mentors and engaging project-based learning opportunities to develop both technical and soft skill-sets necessary for future career development. Good City Brave Camp is a five day boot camp that teaches 120 high school girls coding, design-thinking, public speaking and leadership skills. By the end the camp, girls will have built a website that communicates and addresses an important community issue. Hak4Kidz The Hak4Kidz conference program provides hands-on, information security and STEM learning opportunities to Chicago middle school and high school participants in a protected environment that allows for exploration and encourages cooperative engagement. Illinois Institute of Technology The IPRO Program engages interdisciplinary student teams to explore, prototype and test STEM education innovations with Innovation Generation grantees. In addition, the big data science initiative builds student competency in making reasoned decisions using large data sets in STEM and other fields through a multi-IPRO MSF Big Data Cluster with high school, undergraduate and graduate students. Illinois Manufacturers’ Association Education Foundation The Young Manufacturers Summer Academies provides career awareness and hands-on opportunities, including plant visits and mock job fairs, for middle school boys and girls from underrepresented populations in Chicago. Illinois Science & Technology Institute The R&D STEM Learning Exchange provides inquiry-based learning experiences that teach foundational STEM knowledge rooted in real-world applications and problem-based learning through STEM Challenges, the Mentor Matching Engine and Resource Repository.


Museum of Science and Industry The Institute for Quality Science Teaching (IQST) teacher training program impacts students' science learning by enhancing teachers' science content knowledge and instructional strategies; partnerships with Loyola and Valparaiso enable teachers to earn graduate credit and certifications. National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity Education Foundation NAPE’s Micromessaging to Reach and Teach Every Student™ year-long professional development program is proven to close equity gaps in participation and performance of underrepresented students in STEM education. This teacher-centered training will impact STEM educators in Elgin, IL. Northern Illinois Research Foundation This program provides hands-on engineering education through Saturday engineering workshops and a summer day camp for 130 Girl Scouts in middle and high schools girls across Illinois. Northwestern University Middle and high school R&D and STEAM programs supported by teacher professional development and collaborative learning and engagement events for approximately 450 teachers and other STEM education stakeholders, benefitting over 35,000 students in Chicago and across Illinois and the U.S.

Project Exploration Project Exploration's Youth-Science programming provides a dynamic continuum of programs focused on multiple scientific disciplines to engage underrepresented Chicago Public School students in authentic science experiences to build meaningful connections between their in-school and out-of-school lives as well as translating small achievements in labs, classrooms and the field to achievement in school, college and beyond. Project SYNCERE The Engineering Preparatory Academy provides approximately 2,000 Chicago-area students in grades 6-12 with a three year guided pathway at the middle school and high school level to obtain college credit as well as career readiness and scholarship opportunities to successfully pursue STEM careers. Schaumburg Township Elementary School Foundation Schaumburg School District 54 fosters the interest and confidence of approximately 700 female elementary and middle school students to pursue STEM education and careers through STEM programming focused on developing communication, collaboration, critical thinking and work readiness skills. Shedd Aquarium Society Underwater Robotics teaches approximately 500 Chicago-area students and teachers STEM principles in a unique and innovative format that encourages participants to use critical thinking and problem-solving skills to design and construct functional remotely operated vehicles in an after-school club setting.


Skills for Chicagoland’s Future In 2016, Skills for Chicagoland’s Future aims to place 1,050 under and unemployed Chicagoland job seekers into jobs with over 40 employer partners through direct placement and train-to-hire programs. Township High School District 211 The Makers Lab program provides mentorship opportunities with industry professionals through research and development problem-based learning challenges. In addition, the GEMS program provides hands-on engineering, math and science experiences to female elementary school students. Township High School District 214 Next Generation Engineers provides hands-on STEM education to middle school students in an after-school setting. This program highlights how engineers use technology to solve everyday problems and helps inspire students to pursue STEM careers. University of Chicago University of Chicago provides design workshops to Chicago-area high school students and tasks participants to build apps using open data from a network of urban sensors.

United Cerebral Palsy United Cerebral Palsy’s Life Labs program tasks college and graduate students across the U.S. to create innovations that will positively affect the lives of people with disabilities. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Hoeft Technology and Management Program delivers an interdisciplinary education curriculum with hands-on programming to approximately 115 business and engineering students at the University of Illinois. William Rainey Harper College Educational Foundation Harper College provides scholarships as well as additional award funds to engineering majors and underrepresented students with high honors as well as leadership and community service.community service, engineering majors and/or underrepresented students

Indiana Purdue University Women in Engineering Program Purdue University’s Women in Engineering program supports undergraduate and graduate female engineering students through outreach programs as well as exposes over 3,000 1st - 8th grade students to engineering using hands-on activities in Indiana and adjacent states.

Maryland


Fire Museum of Maryland In partnership with the University of Maryland and the Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute, the Fire Museum's Full STEM Ahead program provides hands-on engineering, physics and chemistry programming for approximately 1,000 students.

New Jersey

Rutgers University Foundation The Governor's School of Engineering & Technology provides a college-level, hands-on experience for approximately 100 New Jersey youth to explore STEM studies and careers.

New York NAF NAF's STEM-themed academies provide rigorous career education to nearly 3,000 STEM students in New York City. Students take cutting-edge courses in engineering, health sciences and information technology, complete projects with real-world applications and benefit from work-based learning and guidance from business professionals. Rochester Institute of Technology NTID's Tech Girls/Boyz summer camp provides 60 deaf and hard of hearing students from across the US with exposure to STEM education concepts and career pathways. Participants interact with deaf and hard of hearing role models and peers in a college setting. The Boys’ Club of New York The Boys' Club of New York’s Expanded STEM program provides approximately 100 low-income boys and young men of color in New York City with focused, hands-on STEM classes in engineering, robotics and more.

The Intrepid Museum Foundation Inc. Greater Opportunities Advancing Leadership and Science for Girls (GOALS) provides a rich, in-depth, six-week STEM experience for 50 teenage girls in New York City, as well as ongoing networking and mentoring support for hundreds of GOALS alumnae as they continue with studies and career pathways.

Texas Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in Information Technology The Pathways to STEM workshops provides hands-on game and app development for 100 underrepresented and underserved youth in Houston, TX.


Utah Invent Now, Inc. Camp Invention is a weeklong summer program led by teachers in more than 1,300 schools nationwide and impacting nearly 100,000 children each summer. Programming focuses on students in Salt Lake City with curricula focused on innovation, entrepreneurship, and creativity through STEM content.

Washington Techbridge Girls Techbridge's after-school program provides hands-on STEM education for more than 200 girls in grades 5-8 in high-need schools in SeaTac, Burien, and Seattle, WA. In addition to technical skill development, girls learn about various STEM career pathways, network with local STEM employers and gain support and guidance from role models.

Washington, D.C. Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute CHCI's Graduate STEM Fellowship provides young Latinos with an advanced STEM degree as well as a nine-month experience working on Capitol Hill through one of the nation's top leadership training program.

2016 innovation generation grant recipients

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