Jennifer L. Weible, Ph.D., a professor at Central Michigan University, has been awarded an iTEST grant from the National Science Foundation for her project “Making Wearables for High School Learners”. This two-year project has been funded from Summer 2023 to Summer 2025 and centers around sparking curiosity in STEM using computational thinking, coding, and electronic textiles.
This summer, Jennifer and her collaborators from Penn State and Upward Bound (a program for under-served students) will be hosting a camp to provide high school students with opportunities to explore career options in STEM fields. Activities at the camp will include designing and coding a digital game and using electronic textiles, conductive thread, and circuits to create a controller to play their game.
Jennifer Weible is supporting these activities through the NSF grant awarded to her and her collaborators. The grant allows the team to fund several student researchers, buy camp supplies, collect data, and analyze it. The teams’ goals are to improve the way that students learn about computational thinking and coding, explore the role of curiosity in making, and open doors to careers in STEM fields.
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