The NASA Goddard STEAM Innovation Laboratory is a Makerspace approach to bringing NASA's universe of knowledge into educational spaces around the country and to increase scientific literacy and interest in STEAM careers. Through a series of stations specializing in virtual reality, electronics, mobile sensors and 3-D fabrication, we have succeeded…

NASA eClips™, developed by the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) in partnership with NASA, provides educators with standards-based educational resources that seek to increase student science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) literacy through the lens of NASA. Over the past four years a new project within NASA eClips™, NASA…

The University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez (UPRM) has found that there are disadvantages to a semester long remedial mathematics course that is administered during the freshmen year to students with mathematics deficiencies in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) programs. Correspondingly, the UPRM designed and implemented an…

This article is a report of the evaluation of the second year of the project, ENLIST Micros II. The project is working to develop a model for implementing educational computing in school science. The project goals, staff development, and project activities are described. The participants' checklist, "Microcomputer Use in Science…

Project INSITE is an on-going program in the use of computers and on-line searching, electronic mail, and CD-ROM technologies to facilitate the acquisition and exchange of information among science teachers, students, school districts, and the scientific and higher education communities. (Author/PR)

Describes establishment and operation of a university-based computer center at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, focusing on student/teacher programs and software development and use. The center offers a centralized source of information, training, and education in computer literacy and computer science for precollege students. (JN)

Provides selected abstracts from the Computers in Physics Instruction conference held on August 1-5, 1988. Topics include: wave and particle motion, the CT programing language, microcomputer-based laboratories, student written simulations, concept maps, summer institutes, computer bulletin boards, interactive video, and videodisks. (MVL)