2022-present
Dissertation
What Can Models do? -Designing A STEM Workshop to Explore the Epistemological Questions about Climate Change For Preservice Teachers
2023-Present
Armstrong Teacher Educator Program
Graduate Assistant
2022-2023
River Camp: Using Models to Teach River Morphology for Kids- How Rivers Change Overtime?
Researcher
2022-2023
Education for Environmental Change
Researcher
2021-present
The Notion of Failure and Maker Programming for Youth: Supporting the Professional Development, Reflection, and Learning of Informal Educators. (NSF Funding. PI: Adam Maltese, Amber Simpson).
Graduate research assistant
2020
Online Practice Suite: Practice Spaces, Simulations and Virtual Reality Environments for Preservice Teachers to Learn to Facilitate Argumentation Discussions in Math and Science. (NSF Funding)
Graduate research assistant
2019-2021
Investigating Experienced Chinese STEM Educators' Beliefs and Practices on STEM Education. (E. Wayne Gross Funding $2500)
PI
2019-2021
Teacher Cognition and Learning about Incorporation Science Representations in Elementary Classrooms. (NSF funding)
Researcher
2019
From Maker Space to Open Space: Designing a low-cost e-textile workshop for migrant girls in China. (Martha & Tilaar funding $10000).
Co-PI.
2019-2020
Engineering a Community-Family Partnership: Developing a Program Aimed at Making and Design Practices in Home Environments. (NSF funding).
Researcher
2019-2020
Children's Mathematical Thinking Moments and How Caregivers Encourage Those Thinking. (Sub-project of the Family Engineering Project).
Researcher
2018-2020
Community of Practice on Self-Study (CoPSS): Supporting doctoral science and math education students' teaching.
Researcher
2019
Developing Science Education Doctoral Students' Identity as Nature of Science Educators.
Researcher