The National Science Foundation’s Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program has recently awarded funding to a wide range of projects. The AISL Program funds five types of projects: (1) Synthesis; (2) Conference; (3) Partnership Development and Planning; (4) Integrating Research and Practice; and (5) Research in Support of Wide-reaching Public Engagement with STEM. You can also use our advanced search function to sort by audience type, disciplinary content, and other tags of interest.
Recently Funded AISL Awards
Conference
21st Century Learning in Natural History Settings: A Conference to Initiate Research-Driven Innovation in Informal Natural History Learning
Black Representation - Authoring STEM Stories for Climate Risk Preparedness
Conference: Annual Rural STEM Learning Summit
Conference: Building Resilient Communities: A National Symposium that explores the role of public libraries in addressing local climate impacts
Conference: Equity, Innovation, and STEAM - Strengthening the R&D Connections
Conference: Nobel Prize Summit 2023: Truth, Trust, and Hope
Roads Taken - Long-term Impacts of STEM Youth Programs: Conference
Integrating Research and Practice
Collaborative Research: Reimagining Educator Learning Pathways Through Storywork for Racial Equity in STEM
Community Engaged Disciplinary and Educational Researchers in STEM (CEDERS)
Fostering Black and Latinx student STEM efficacy, interests, and identity: A participatory study of STEM programming and practices at one community-based organization
Integrating Research and Practice: Reimagining Youth Community Science through Make-and-Take Data Sensing Kits
Iterative Improvement of a Program for Building Inclusive, Diverse, Equitable, Accessible Large-scale (IDEAL) Participatory Science Projects
Racial Equity: Expanding Mathematical Futures Through Multimedia Storytelling
Research to Understand and Inform the Impacts of Ambient and Designed Sound on Informal STEM Learning
Side by Side: Youth-Authored Art-Science Exhibits to Broaden Participation in Climate Communication
STEMcyclists: Black and Brown Youth Transforming Science and Engineering via Bikes
STEM Education Organizational Postdoctoral Research Fellowships: Collaborative Research in Informal STEM Learning Environments
Voces de Esperanza (Voices of Hope): An Exhibit and Framework for Supporting Climate Change Conversations with Latine Audiences
WaterSIMmersive: Designing and assessing a mixed-reality water sustainability educational game and museum exhibit for communities in the Desert Southwest
Partnership Development and Planning
Acknowledging and Shifting the Dynamics of Power: Building Equitable Partnerships Among Informal STEM Learning Practitioners, Researchers, and Communities
Co-designing STEM Education with Communities: Centering History, Heterogeneity, Power, and Place
Creating Sustainable Community, Museum, and University Collaborations
Developing Partnerships Among Tribes, Geoscientists, and the National Park Service to Advance Informal Geoscience Learning at Grand Canyon
Kaulele (To Take Flight) - Creating a Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Indigenous-led Design Framework for STEM Exhibits
Partnership Development and Planning: Assessment of Maker Practices in Museums
Partnerships for Indigenous Climate Journalism
Planning: Beyond Ice
Planning: FIRE-PLAN:Convergent Pyroscapes: Catalyzing Innovative and Inclusive Wildland Fire Science and Education in Western North Carolina
Planning: FIRE-PLAN: Wildland Fire + Cultural Burning (WFCB)
Transforming STEM Education through Participatory and Community-Engaged Research: An Incubator Project
Youth Lead the Way: A Youth Advisory Research Board Model for Climate Impact Education
Research in Support of Wide-reaching Public Engagement with STEM
An AI Tutoring System for Pollinator Conservation Community Science Training
A Climate of Hope: Investigating learning at an innovative exhibit towards new knowledge, theory, and practice of climate change learning with diverse audiences
Advancing Latino Parents' Access and Engagement with Science-Based Strategies for Climate-Resilient Parenting through a National Media and Community Campaign
Air Pollution Visualizations for Promoting Data Literacy with Middle Schoolers and the Public
Build a Mars Habitat - Survive and Thrive ... an addition to the Sun, Earth, Universe exhibition
Building Capacity to Institutionalize Equity in Outdoor and Environmental Science Education
Building Supports Towards a Useful, Usable, and In-Use Framework of Professional Competencies in the Informal STEM Learning Field
Co-Designing Media to Foster Joint Peer-to-Peer Engagement, Promote Engineering Learning, and Expand Reach to Young Children
Collaborative Research: Arecibo C3 - Center for Culturally Relevant and Inclusive Science Education, Computational Skills, and Community Engagement
Collaborative Research: Cultivating Tomorrow's Innovators Through Exploring Planetary Images with Artificial Intelligence
Developing a new generation of collaborative scientists and citizens through popular media
Developing Guidelines for Neurodiversity-Affirming Engineering Programs in Museums and Science Centers through Universal Design for Learning
Development of a University-Community Partnership to Offer Informal Computer Science Opportunities to Children and Youth Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Developing Sustainable Ecosystems that Support Women Transitioning from Incarceration into Technology Careers
Eclipse Ambassadors: Preparing Scientists and Educators to Facilitate Engagement in the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
Informal Biodiversity Education Models for Rural and Tribal Youth
Improving Science Communication via Results-Blind Selection: Lessons from Registered Reports
RAPID: Filming the Erupting Mauna Loa Volcano to Extend the Impact of Geoscience Research to Large Diverse Audiences
SCC-IRG Track 2: Diaspora, Agriculture, & AI: Community-based Integration of Smart Technologies into Black Diasporic Agricultural Practices
Understanding the Impact of Outdoor Science and Environmental Learning Experiences Through Community-Driven Outcomes
Synthesis
A Synthesis of Approaches to Equity, Belonging, and Broadening Participation in Museums and Makerspaces
The Cultural Roots of STEM: A Synthesis of Non-Western STEM Learning Paradigms
Previous Awards
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2016 AISL-Funded Projects