Center for K12 STEM Education
Model Programs
Central Brooklyn STEM Initiative
NYU-Poly’s Central Brooklyn STEM Initiative (CBSI) pairs teachers from Brooklyn public schools with graduate student fellows from NYU-Poly’s engineering, chemical and biological science programs to design dynamic, hands-on classroom lessons in a variety of STEM disciplines. Graduate fellows co-teach in classrooms and coach robotics teams, spending about 10 hours a week in schools throughout the academic year.
Currently in 23 schools, this program combines funding from the National Science Foundation, Brooklyn Community Foundation and other supporters and serves nearly 2,000 students and 40 teachers.
NYC FIRST
The Center is FIRST’s New York City partner. With this national organization, NYU-Poly supports its robotics competitions throughout the five boroughs serving thousands of students and the mentors and teachers that work with young people on their teams.
With programs at the elementary, middle and high school levels, NYU-Poly and FIRST are working together to expand opportunities for on-going student participation, greater access to the program for schools, teachers and students, and to create new pathways to train coaches in robotics and equip them to better teach the underlying engineering, physics, math and computer science that create robotic devices.
Learn more about NYC FIRST and its national arm.
College Preparation and Readiness for STEM
Our College Preparation and Readiness for STEM partnership with the Urban Assembly Institute of Math and Science for Young Women is a model collaboration designed and run by the Center for K-12 STEM Education. This partnership will begin its second three-year cycle in July 2012 with continued support from the Teagle Foundation.
Young women in grades six through twelve who attend the UAI receive intensive tutoring and mentoring services from NYU-Poly students; UAI teachers benefit from extensive professional development opportunities through NYU-Poly faculty; and a growing number of students in the UAI high school take structured, custom-designed, college-level classes in engineering, math and other disciplines at our Brooklyn campus.
GK12 // RAISE
RAISE project has developed a partnership between Polytechnic University and four New York City high schools to enhance student achievement in Active Physics, Marine Science, Regents Living Environment, Regents Physics, and Math-A. Under this project three principal investigators (PIs), over 12 GK12 Fellows (RAISE Fellows) annually, and 16 teachers have collaborated to integrate modern sensing, instrumentation, and monitoring technologies in two required science courses (Active Physics and Living Environment) and two science electives (Marine Science and Physics). Another course (Math-A) is being impacted indirectly since use of instrumentation must be based on a solid foundation in math. Judicious integration of sensing technology in curriculum and instructional framework is exciting the students and imparting technology literacy to them.