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Current Funding
Current Funding
IN‑STEP (Interdisciplinary iNcubation STEM design challenges through community Engagement with academic and industry Professionals) is an education and research project with three primary objectives:
Advance urban high school STEM teachers’ capacity to enact learner‑centered teaching (LCT) by engaging them in sustained professional development focused on culturally relevant pedagogy, food systems, and design thinking.
Increase urban high school students’ design thinking mindset and their ability to use Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to develop innovative solutions to locally relevant food system challenges through a sequence of Incubation Design Challenges (IDCs).
Strengthen students’ connections to their local communities and STEM career pathways by partnering teachers and students with scientists, industry professionals, and community organizations to co‑design meaningful, real‑world learning experiences.
Funding Source: National Science Foundation, ITEST Program (Developing & Testing Innovations)
Additional Support: This project also benefits from Purdue partnerships with community organizations, scientists, and STEM education specialists who contribute expertise in food systems, engineering design, and IoT integration.
Past Funding
Past Funding
INdustry-driVen Integrated STEM and Systems Approach to Innovative IncubatiON (IN-VISION) Project (2020 – 2024)
INdustry-driVen Integrated STEM and Systems Approach to Innovative IncubatiON (IN-VISION) Project (2020 – 2024)
IN-VISION is an education project with four objectives: (1) Develop a year-long teacher professional development program to increase rural high school STEM teachers' agricultural literacy and teaching capacity; (2) create a small learning community for rural high school teachers to co-develop iSTEM and AFNR educational materials that is solidly grounded in agro-ecosystem thinking; (3) provide scientists opportunities to collaborate with teachers to disseminate their research data and results through Extension/education events; and, (4) equip rural high school students with critical thinking and problem-solving skills that are essential to success in the 21st century workforce
Funding Source: National Institute of Food and Agriculture (Project No. IND00117973)
This work was also supported by the Lilly Endowment funding via the WHIN (Wabash Heartland Innovation Network) project which served to advance IoT and technologies in agriculture and manufacturing.
Associated Publications:
Associated Publications:
Industry-Driven Integrated STEM and Systems Approach to Innovate Incubation (IN-VISION)
High School Students' Motivation and Career Interests in Integrated STEM Food System Projects
Land-grant Outreach for Community-based Agricultural Learning for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education (LOCAL STEM) Project (2016 – 2020)
Land-grant Outreach for Community-based Agricultural Learning for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education (LOCAL STEM) Project (2016 – 2020)
LOCAL STEM is an educational project designed to increase the integrated STEM teaching capacity of high school teachers and develop a sustainable land-grant educational partnership and pathway to enhance high school students' agricultural STEM literacy and career interests. The LOCAL STEM project has three objectives: (1) develop a yearlong TPD program to increase STEM teaching capacity; (2) provide integrated and immersive learning experiences at PPAC to increase STEM literacy and career interests; and (3) develop a localized land-grant model of TPD for integrated agricultural STEM education.
Funding Source: National Institute of Food and Agriculture (Project No. IND011778)
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