SBIR Phase I: Engaging citizens in environmental research to impact science literacy and STEM careers while ensuring data integrity

SBIR 第一阶段：让公民参与环境研究，以影响科学素养和 STEM 职业，同时确保数据完整性

• 批准号: 2151476
• 负责人: Carrie Linden
• 金额: $ 25.59万
• 依托单位: LIMINAL ESPORTS LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2151476&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Engaging; citizens; environmental

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project seeks to engage citizen in environmental research activities, potentially increasing the selection of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers for youth. This project focuses on enhancing academic and industry partnerships around citizen science, improving science and environmental literacy, and increasing participation of underrepresented groups in STEM fields of study. In addition to improving the nation’s scientific and technical workforce pipeline, the project seeks to employ a unique commercialization model for interactive educational media that allows for both authentic learning and widespread use by general audiences. This model mixes digital and in-person experiences, digital distribution methods, and mobile experience commercialization strategies that can serve as a model for other educational and commercial interactive media companies.This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project addresses two critical issues: engaging more youth in environmental science and engineering education and increasing local environmental data for scientists. The project team will research and develop optimal methods and tools for creating educational and interactive media with rapid scientific data collection capabilities. For youth and educators, the project seeks to engage users in national standards-aligned scientific learning activities. The project will create hyperlocal networks that collect data and make results directly available to local communities so that they can actively track pressing environmental concerns such as migrations and changes in populations of species. The technical goals of the project include creating new processes for connecting local, crowdsourced user input to citizen science data repositories in a way that automates the categorization and validation of that data. The resulting project will actively engage youth in real scientific research and improve data collection for federal and university environmental science programs.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这一小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第一阶段项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力旨在让公民参与环境研究活动，潜在地增加年轻人选择科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)职业的机会。该项目的重点是加强围绕公民科学的学术和行业伙伴关系，提高科学和环境素养，并增加未被充分代表的群体在STEM研究领域的参与。除了改善国家的科学和技术劳动力管道外，该项目还寻求采用一种独特的互动教育媒体商业化模式，使其既能真正学习，又能被普通观众广泛使用。这种模式融合了数字和面对面体验、数字分发方法和移动体验商业化战略，可以作为其他教育和商业互动媒体公司的模式。这个小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第一阶段项目解决了两个关键问题：吸引更多的年轻人参与环境科学和工程教育，以及为科学家增加当地环境数据。项目组将研究和开发创建具有快速科学数据收集能力的教育和互动媒体的最佳方法和工具。对于青年和教育工作者，该项目寻求让用户参与符合国家标准的科学学习活动。该项目将创建超本地网络，收集数据并将结果直接提供给当地社区，以便他们能够积极跟踪紧迫的环境问题，如迁徙和物种种群的变化。该项目的技术目标包括创建新的流程，以便以自动对数据进行分类和验证的方式将本地的众包用户输入连接到公民科学数据储存库。由此产生的项目将积极吸引年轻人参与真正的科学研究，并改善联邦和大学环境科学项目的数据收集。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。