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NSF Fellowships
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2007-08 Engineering Student Fellows
NSF GK-12 Graduate Fellowships
The ITL Program in CU-Boulder's College of Engineering and Applied Science has received a five-year Track 2 GK-12 award from the National Science Foundation to fund engineering graduate and undergraduate students to teach hands-on engineering in K-12 classrooms to exploit engineering as a vehicle for the integration of science and math instruction. Program goals include:
Increasing and diversifying the pipeline of CU engineering students,
Enriching STEM learning by K-12 students,
Improving teachers' skill and comfort with STEM content knowledge,
Enhancing K-12 STEM curricula with hands-on instruction,
Enhancing the capability and impact of GK-12 Fellows, and
Modeling a sustainable, replicable school district/university partnership.
Fellows spend ~10 hours weekly providing direct in-class instruction to K-12 students, and an additional 10 hours weekly (out-of-classroom) preparing curricula for both classroom instruction and the TeachEngineering digital library, mentoring Engineering Outreach Corps students, and teaching Saturday and summer workshops for youth and teachers. Seminars in classroom management, gender equity and other educational topics that impact classroom instruction are required throughout the year. Fellows partner with specific teachers in grades 3-12 classrooms in Lafayette and Denver, introducing youth to hands-on engineering in myriad topics, and serving as engineer role models for youngsters. The seven schools serve diverse student populations, and prepare students for high school pre-engineering studies.
This award provides for eight graduate fellowships, as well as supplementary funding for advanced undergraduate students. Graduate students seeking a Ph.D. are preferred. Each fellowship provides a half-time GRA stipend funded 12 months annually, with opportunity for three-quarter or full-time summer appointment. In addition, tuition and partial benefits will be covered. Attached are application materials. Please contact Janet Yowell, 303-492.5230, janet.yowell@colorado.edu with any questions.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0338326. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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