Current Projects | EdLab Group

"This kind of project is so needed in this area – all these girl-serving orgs doing great things, but in isolation from each other."

– National Girls Collaborative Project participant

Bio-ITEST
The Bio-ITEST program is a model designed to provide secondary science teachers with the knowledge, skills, and resource materials to engage their students in the newly developing fields of bioinformatics and computational biology.
Communities Connect Network
Communities Connect Network (CCN) is a statewide coalition of public and private organizations working to ensure that Washington State is a leader in “digital inclusion”.
Computer Science Collaboration Project
The Computer Science Collaboration Project creates collaboration centers that connect the various alliances and K-12 outreach organizations that are part of the Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) community.
Digital Inclusion
The EdLab Group is working with a number of partners to conduct broadband data development (data collection and mapping), capacity building and regional/state broadband investment planning for the states of Idaho and Wyoming.
Expanding Your Horizons Gateway Project
The EYH Gateway Project provides a central point of presence for all the EYH conferences in Washington and to deliver services and resources designed to assist conference coordinators in maximizing the quality and capacity of EYH conferences.
The FabFems Project
The FabFems Project, funded by the Motorola Innovation Generation Collaborative Grant, is a partnership between EdLab Group, Platform Shoes Forum, and Smith College that aims to address the current issues in gender inequity in science and engineering fields.
GUIDES
In partnership with the Girl Scouts of USA and funding from the National Science Foundation, this project’s goal is to encourage girls from minority ethnic groups to get involved with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) while in school and to consider engineering as a possible career.
Hypatia – A Virtual World supporting and expanding the reach of the National Girls Collaborative Project.
Hypatia is a virtual world being developed to expand opportunities for participation to girls who do not have a local group as well as to support an online learning community for the girls throughout the United States who take part in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs.
National Girls Collaborative Project
The purpose of the National Girls Collaborative Project (NGCP) is to strengthen the capacity, impact, and sustainability of existing and evolving girl-serving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs throughout the United States.
Pacific Northwest Girls Collaborative Project
The Pacific Northwest Girls Collaborative Project (PNWGCP) brings together organizations in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington that are committed to informing and motivating girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
SciGirls
In partnership with TPT National Productions, SciGirls is a groundbreaking new TV show and interactive Web site that will transform the way tween girls look at science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
TechREACH
TechREACH after school and summer programs engage underrepresented and low-income students in hands-on technology and science projects, fun creative challenges, and experiential field trip and role model visits.
WaterBotics
WaterBotics is the curriculum content of the Build IT Scale-Up project (BISU), a 5-year National Science Foundation awardee under the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program.