Additonal Contributors

Educational Standards Alignment Contributors - Special thanks to:

• Center for Natural Language Processing (CNLP) - Anne Diekema and Jennifer Bailey for magnanimously providing CAT and SAT standards alignment tools, and tirelessly working through technical challenges with us.
• JES & Co. - Bruce Walker and Diny Golder for generously making the ASN standards database available to our project.
• Oregon State University Open-Source Lab

Curricular Content Contributors - In addition to the curricula provided by the founding partners, new curricular partners include:

• Clarkson University - Susan Powers and Jan DeWaters for their middle school curricular unit on energy, created through an NSF GK-12 grant. * Winner - 2009 Premier Curriculum Award for K-12 Engineering *
• Drexel University - Eli Fromm for middle school activities created by his NSF GK-12 engineering graduate student fellows.
• Institute of Navigation and CU-Boulder - Penny Axelrad for a middle school curricular unit on navigation.
• Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics - Erin Wood for activities exploring light spectroscopy, developed through NASA's Project SPECTRA!
• Oregon State University, Dept. of Crop and Soil Sciences - Sujaya Rao for life sciences-oriented activities developed through a Rural Science Education Program NSF grant.
• University of California-Los Angeles - For high school carricula created in the UCLA Science and Engineering of the Environment of Los Angeles (SEE-LA) NSF GK-12 Program.
• University of Colorado at Boulder, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering - Jean Hertzberg for activities in forces and fluids developed with UCB UROP funding assistance.
• University of Missouri - For curricula created through the College of Engineering Center for Computational Neurobiology's NSF GK-12 grant.
• University of South Carolina, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering - Jed Lyons for activities developed through an NSF GK-12 grant.
• University of Virginia - Shayne Peirce for K-12 activities created by students in her biomedical engineering senior design course.
• Vanderbilt University - Stacy Klein has worked with her NSF-funded RET Program to contribute curricula teachers have developed utilizing the Legacy Cycle.
• Washington University in St. Louis - For activities developed by STEM fellows through the School of Engineering and Applied Science's NSF GK-12 grant.

NOTE: Specific contributions by individual authors are recognized at the end of every lesson and activity document under the "Contributors" heading.