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When two Georgia professors needed help figuring out a process for increasing the number of skilled machinists to operate complex computer numeric controlled (CNC) machines, they turned to a well-regarded program that provides mentors for expert guidance.
With advice and technical resources from Mentor-Connect, Stuart Rolf and Randall Emert crafted two successful, collaborative grant proposals to theNational Science Foundation‘s (NSF)Advanced Technological Education(ATE) program.
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New York public school students are about to begin playing instructional games created by faculty and students at Hostos Community College for
Game-Framed Mathematics and Science (G-FMS), a National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education project. The games created to help Hostos’ digital media students succeed in remedial and introductory math and science courses are now aiming for wider use among younger students.
G-FMS Principal Investigator Rees Shad said middle school and high school teachers in District 7, the region of the New York City Public Schools in the South Bronx, are beginning to incorporate the games in their classroom instruction. With the assistance of Hostos President David Gómez, Shad and his team will soon meet with top New York City School officials about using the games in fourth grade classrooms throughout the city.
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The 81 college teams in the first four Mentor-Connect cohorts have increased the geographic diversity of colleges submitting proposals to the National Science Foundation’s ATE program.
The selected colleges are in regions in 27 different states where an ATE grant has either never been funded or has not been funded in the past 10 years. Since NSF started the ATE program in 1993, its competitive review process has awarded ATE grants in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. However, many of these grants have gone to colleges in metropolitan areas, and often these institutions have received multiple ATE grants.
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