{"676402":{"#nid":"676402","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Engineering Curriculum Drives STEM Engagement Across Georgia","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt was the first large grant that \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ceismc.gatech.edu\/about\/staffdirectory\/meltem-alemdar\u0022\u003EMeltem Alemdar\u003C\/a\u003E started working on as a co-principal investigator in her young career at Georgia Tech the $7.5 million \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/stem-id.ceismc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EAMP-IT-UP\u003C\/a\u003E grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2012 was a big responsibility. The coordination, planning, execution, and evaluation involved in the related seven-year project was daunting. Now, reflecting on more than 15 years of STEM education grants and big projects \u2014 and the teachers and students influenced by them \u2014 she is very proud of the progress.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlemdar\u2019s day-to-day job is as a lead STEM education researcher at Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (CEISMC). For more than 30 years, CEISMC team members like Alemda have been diving deep into the Georgia K-12 education community, working to improve teaching and learning in STEM fields. One of their big successes is a curriculum called STEM-Innovation and Design (STEM-ID), a product of the seven-year long NSF AMP-IT-UP grant.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe curriculum outcomes in the original 2012 grant were so successful that a new scale-up project is currently being rolled out in almost a dozen schools across Georgia through an NSF-funded impact study. STEM-ID is a full three-year middle school curriculum designed to make learning science, technology, engineering, and math accessible, appealing, and fun. Using it, and the teacher training that goes along with it, CEISMC is working to ensure more students from every part of Georgia and from every background have a strong, engaging introduction into these fields and know the many ways a future vocation in these areas could be achieved. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs the principal investigator responsible for this $2.7 million STEM-ID grant for the scale-up project, Alemdar said, \u201cI did not grow up in an environment where engineering was even a possibility for me as a little girl in middle school. Basically, it was a boy thing, and so I\u0027m very passionate about making sure that everybody has similar opportunities to make a decision about their future.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlemdar leads this research with Jessica Gale, another CEISMC researcher.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne school using the STEM-ID curriculum is Jones Middle School, part of Gwinnett County Public Schools.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA curriculum called STEM-ID, developed by Georgia Tech researchers, is being implemented at almost a dozen middle schools around Georgia. The idea is to create a middle school engineering learning experience through better engagement with math and science skills, applying fun, highly interactive schoolwork to bring awareness of STEM fields to the broadest scope of students possible. Studies of the program have shown improved math and science scores among students exposed to STEM-ID at least twice during middle school. This evidence has led to program expansion.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Middle-schoolers who were taught using a Georgia Tech-developed engineering curriculum scored better than their peers on math and science achievement tests, following a pilot program with the Griffin-Spalding County School System."}],"uid":"36174","created_gmt":"2024-08-29 16:53:06","changed_gmt":"2024-09-17 14:25:50","author":"Blair Meeks","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-08-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-08-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"674904":{"id":"674904","type":"video","title":"Engineering Curriculum Drives STEM Engagement Across Georgia ","body":"\u003Cp\u003EMiddle-schoolers who were taught using a Georgia Tech-developed engineering curriculum scored better than their peers on math and science achievement tests, following a pilot program with the Griffin-Spalding County School System. 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