Through the support of the CREATE for STEM researchers and developers, teachers receive additional training on Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) performance expectations, the features of Project-Based Learning (PBL), and the shift to phenomena...

This initiative provided professional learning support for in-service teachers to improve the teaching and learning of science specifically and STEM more broadly. Teachers in the Detroit Public Schools Community District were the primary participants...

The goal is to enhance the ability of educators to implement the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in culturally responsive ways by using areas outside of the classroom—and to examine how this type of learning affects students from high-povert...

Shaunak Bopardikar participated in the 2020 Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program (DAPCEP)-MEEP, which places pre-college students from the Detroit area in activities designed to attract them to STEM fields. He designed an activity for grade 1...

Partnered with 150 students, faculty and staff to provide engaging hands-on activities to 350 4-8th grade girls with a goal to expose to the wide field of engineering.

The Office of College Access Initiatives: Project #1 Upward Bound of MSU To prepare college bound high school students for success in post-secondary institutions. To follow and support underrepresented youth in post-secondary institutions. Classes ...

We scheduled and executed 5 days of visits to MSU in Feb and March of 2020, before COVID forced us to cancel the remaining 5 dates of visits to MSU. For the 5 dates, we managed to bring 6th-12th grade students, their teachers and in some occasions f...

Saturday Academies are workshops that take place on MSU's campus, once a month. We were only able to fit one in before COVID shut us down and we had to cancel the remaining 3 Saturday programs. Saturday program was a way to connect our outreach in ...

The summer virtual program was created to fulfill a need for our program to have a summer presence as we had been describing to the students throughout the previous year. They had to attend a certain amount of Saturday programs to be invited to our S...

Pre-College Activity Programming Planning Policy development Practice

Increase number of early care and education providers utilizing farm to education within Michigan, thus increasing access to local, health, affordable food for ECE settings o Addressing early care and education farm to ECE efforts as a result of COVI...

Outcomes: -Inform national landscape of farm to ECE regarding farm to ECE practices, motivation among providers to engage in farm to ECE, and barriers and how to address them to enable replication; Recognize CRFS as a leader and partner in research a...

The mission of the MSU Science Festival is to celebrate the many ways science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (the STEAM disciplines) touch our everyday lives and shape our future, broaden public access to informal learning environment...

Developed an Anishinaabe resource manual with assessed and recommended resources (books, articles, podcasts, videos, etc) that align with the State of Michigan Social Studies Standards; to assist and enhance the role K-12 education plays in respectfu...

Monthly virtual 8th grade classroom meetings via google classroom in classroom in the Lansing School District. Program goals: Help participants reach their goals. Provide information about educational opportunities beyond high school Show alterna...

Tribal Early Childhood Research Center; Build network of tribal early childhood program administrators, TTA providers, federal partners, and researchers to develop a tribal early childhood research agenda. Together, we 1) train emerging scholars, 2) ...

The Capital Area College Access Network is a regional organization in mid-michigan working to with K-16 education, workforce development, and various non-profits with the goal of increasing the percentage of high school graduates with a degree or cer...

Teach, Talent, Thrive (T3) serves as the Career and Educational Advisory Council for Prosperity Region 7. its mission to build a community committed to lifelong learning led by business and community stakeholders to ensure regional prosperity in the ...

This non-profit youth support service has been committed to the development of purpose-driven individuals through education, personal growth, arts, industry and sports for many years. I have worked with them to implement a curriculum, together with t...

Provided logistical and teaching support to faculty/ practitioners who include community engaged teaching and learning in their classrooms.

Science Olympiad is an olympics style competition consisting of 24 individual competitive events for 6-8 grade and 9-12 grade students. STEM focused events in biology, physics, chemistry, and engineering.

The MSU Detroit Center Director worked with faculty from the DOE-PRL to design and conduct focus groups to inform their efforts to develop pipeline projects to expose diverse middle and high school youth to research careers and STEM with a concentrat...

Partnership with Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan on early childhood research, new line of research to support health nutrition lessons in home visiting and head start

I serve on Steering Committee of the U.S. Census Bureau Information Centers. JSRI is a Census Information Center (CIC) and its goal is to provide Latino and other underserved local communities information from the U.S. Census Bureau, including report...

Involved in discussion and planning with Nick Thompson and other board members to plan and review courses and course materials for the Ag Program and various classes at Charlotte High Schools. Review and provide input on equipment use and future pla...