Science Technology Engineering and Math

Science Technology Engineering and Math

Programs at Arizona State University

2018 STEM Report

Arizona FIRST?? LEGO?? League

technology, engineering, art and math. The league uses themebased challenges to help young students discover the fun in solving real-world problems through robots, research projects and teamwork and emphasizes learning, community involvement and friendly sportsmanship. More than 350 teams participated in league activities, and more than 600 students from 98 teams went on to compete at the league championship tournament in 2017, sponsored by the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. outreach. engineering.asu.edu/azfll

STEM Partner Programs

Arizona State University is constantly striving to better connect with and contribute to the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) community. One way the university is doing this is through partner programs supported by university initiatives or with National Science Foundation funding. ASU's STEM programs are part of hundreds of community engagement programs across the Valley designed to tap into and inspire early STEM interests, from summer programs to world-class museums, internships, events and K-12 activities and teacher training.

Ask A Biologist website

Arizona Geographic Alliance

The purpose of the Arizona Geographic Alliance (AzGA) is to strengthen geography education in Arizona. The alliance receives support from grants and ASU's School of Geographical Science and Urban

Planning, where the AzGA office is located. AzGA partners with the Arizona Council on Economic Education, Arizona Foundation on Legal Services and Education, and the Arizona Council for the Social Studies, as well as other national and state groups. Membership totals more than 4,300 educators. In the last 15 years, the 520 workshops and 320 online lessons have impacted 20,000 teachers, who are instructing 800,000 students. geoalliance.asu. edu/azga

Ask A Biologist

Ask A Biologist is a web-based K-12 science education program that has, since 1997, excited the imagination and put learning in the hands of children, teachers, parents, homeschoolers and life-long learners. This award-winning website offers more than 12.2 million visitors a year cutting-edge science and profiles of scientists, image galleries, puzzles, coloring pages, podcasts and other activities. At the core of this multimedia program is the "Ask A" question feature, which answers questions (non-homework) posed to "Dr. Biology." Dr. Biology is the portal through which working scientists and graduate students volunteer their knowledge and time to support the community's Q&A activity. Now accessed by every country in the world, this educational resource for students PreK-12, and their teachers and parents is visited by more than 30,000 people daily, has translated materials into Spanish, French and other languages and answered more than 40,000 questions. askabiologist. asu.edu

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Arizona FIRST?? LEGO? League

Arizona FIRST? LEGO? League is an exciting and fun, global robotics program created to get children ages 9 to 14 excited about science,

Ask An Anthropologist

Humans aren't the only animals with complicated social lives. Studying how other primates interact with each other can help us figure out why humans live the way they do. A partner site to Ask A Biologist, Ask

ASU Open Door

an Anthropologist was launched in 2017 and links students, teachers and ASU researchers supported by ASU's Institute for Human Origins. askananthropologist.asu.edu

ASU Brain Fair

The Brain Fair is the brain child of ASU Professor Heather BimonteNelson, director of the Department of Psychology's Neuroscience of Memory and Aging Lab. As of 2015, this community outreach event has attracted more than 9,000 third and fifth graders from across the valley to learn about brains, neurons and science. The science of the brain goes hand-in-hand with the message that Professor Bimonte-Nelson is trying to get across: "You are responsible for making the decisions which will affect your future. The brain makes those decisions." The event is part of Brain Awareness Week, a series to increase public awareness

about the brain, associated with the Society for Neuroscience. psychology.clas.asu.edu/content/ brain-fairs-children

ASU Open Door

With more than 360 activities and performances in a festival of the sciences, culture, engineering, humanities, health and the arts, ASU Open Door is held in February on the Downtown Phoenix, Polytechnic, Tempe and West campuses. A signature event of the Arizona SciTech Festival and rated one of the top events since it was founded in 2012, each outing offers a window into the creative energy that powers a worldclass university. More than 1,500 student, faculty and staff volunteers offer experiences and hands-on activities. Visitors can go back to medieval times, learn calligraphy and experience cutting-edge science, math, physics, green energy, biomedicine, forensics, potterymaking, art and robotics, space exploration, nursing and more. This free event attracts more than 40,000 members of the community to the ASU campuses each year. opendoor. asu.edu

earth's resources, ASU Prep's 2,100 students are working to solve real challenges and offering researchbased alternatives. The ASU Preparatory Academy Charter School is an innovative K-12 charter school. The academy prepares students to partner with ASU researchers to develop real-world solutions to solve issues and create a better world. The academy offers personalized attention in a university-embedded academic program that empowers students to complete college, compete globally and contribute to their communities. A new prep offering, ASU Prep Digital, now offers high school and university learning environment 100 percent online, including full-time or part-time classes. asuprep.asu.edu

Natural History Collections

ASU Prep Academy

Whether it's building a robot, creating a solar machine or developing solutions to save the

ASU Brain Fair

Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center

The center works to generate comparative knowledge of life's diversity, promotes use of informatics tools and fosters direct and virtual learning experience with biodiversity data and specimens. ASU's Natural History Collections are some of the best in the world, and boast nearly 1.8 million specimens among nine collections. One of the largest is the Frank Hasbrouck Insect Collection, with close to one million specimens, and the Vascular Plant and Lichen Herbaria, with more than 400,000. Fossil plants, shells, reptiles, fish, birds and mammals are also represented. The center hosts research and teaching facilities, including K-12 resources. biokic.asu.edu

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Center for Games and Impact

ASU's Center for Games and Impact works with schools in Arizona to leverage the power of game-based learning to implement new curriculum that is personally engaging and supports deep learning. The center, directed by Professor Sasha Barab, produced the Mystery of Taiga River, a game-based science curriculum centering on a water quality mystery, to teach students, ages 10 to 14, scientific argument. Using this game, students supported by well-prepared teachers take on the role of an environmental scientist who embarks on a scientific investigation where he or she uses water quality indicators to solve the problem of dying fish in the Taiga River. The goal is to restore the health of the environment while balancing the needs of the community stakeholders like loggers, fishers and farmers. "We develop games, apps and platforms to immerse learners in

Center for Games and Impact

what it's really like to be a scientist, a doctor, or an engineer by investigating real-world problems in a virtual world," Barab says. taiga_river

Center for Advanced Studies in Global Education

The Center for Advanced Studies in Global Education was founded to work with educational institutions in countries worldwide. Housed at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, the center supports research projects around the world--from China to Costa Rica to Argentina-- and offers scalable professional development programs that have drawn hundreds of leading educators and administrators from countries including India, South Sudan, Palestine and Mexico, as well as college students, such as those in the MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program from Ghana. education.asu. edu/faculty-and-research/centersand-more/casge-home

Attendees of COMPUGIRLS summer, afterschool and year-long programs learn skills in digital media, documentary filmmaking, game design, podcasting and virtual worlds, supported by ASU's Center for Gender Equity in Science and Technology and directed by Professor Kimberly Scott. A new expansion to COMPUGIRLS in 2017 is COMPUPOWER, designed for students in urban and rural communities and working within schools to build technological and problem-solving skills and community changemakers. cgest.asu.edu/ compugirls

CryptoRally

CryptoRally

Cryptography, the science of making and breaking codes and ciphers, helps protect personal, financial, proprietary and defense-related information. Designed by Nancy Childress, associate professor in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, 29 teams competed in a competition for college and high school teams, including eight middle school "Junior Cryptorally" teams. Following the rally competitions, student, teachers and faculty attend a lecture and student poster session. math.asu.edu/ cryptorally-2018

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COMPUGIRLS

COMPUGIRLS

Ecology Explorers

An award-winning, culturally responsive technology program for girls from grades 8 to 12, COMPUGIRLS blends the learning of advanced computational skills with key areas of social justice to boost aptitude and interest among girls in technology and computer sciences.

Based out of the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, Ecology Explorers provides Phoenix area K-12 teachers and students the opportunity to learn through real scientific research in their schoolyards, backyards and neighborhoods. Students learn how to ask scientific

questions, collect data, do data analysis and contribute to scientific studies in their local community. Designed to help students understand more about their urban ecosystems, their discoveries about insects, plants, birds and landscapes can be shared with other researchers and students in the Phoenix metro area. ecologyexplorers.asu.edu

Embodied Games

The Embodied Games is an awardwinning educational game studio creating immersive, research-backed experiences and providing education through vibrant and collaborative "get out of your seat" games that empower learners to comprehend content through gesture-based learning. Led by Professor Arthur Glenberg, the studio specializes in videogames and Virtual Reality (VR), curriculum development and creating and assessing the efficacy of STEM and health science games in formal and informal learning environments. The studio hosts nine free learning games that range from biology to electric fields, such as: Dragon Shockra, Munch a Mimic, Blindman's Bluff and Alien Health. embodied-

EPICS@ASU

Engineering Projects in Community Service is a national award-winning social entrepreneurship program. Teams design, build and deploy systems to solve engineering-based problems for charities, schools and other not-for-profit organizations. ASU engineering students aren't waiting to graduate to make a difference--they are tackling realworld problems today. ASU also hosts EPICSHigh@ASU with STEM students from 28 Arizona high schools. These students become part of a multidisciplinary teams that take EPICS courses, design projects to tackle a real-world problem, build communication skills and develop life-long appreciation for STEM and service learning. epics.engineering. asu.edu

Forensic Science Day and Forensic Camp

ASU Forensic Science Day introduces high school students from around Arizona to forensic science programs in Arizona. Participants go to the ASU West campus, speak with professionals currently working in the forensic sciences in research and crime laboratories and meet ASU students and forensic faculty members. Summer Up Forensic Camp brings high school students age 15 and up to ASU's New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences for a week of lectures, labs and field experiences to explore the science and techniques performed in real crime cases. visit.asu.edu/forensicday and summerup.asu.edu/camps/ forensics

Joaqu?n Bustoz Math-Science Honors Program

The Joaqu?n Bustoz Math-Science Honors Program is an intense academic program that provides motivated 10th- to 12th-grade students an outstanding opportunity to begin university mathematics and science studies before graduating high school. This free residential program is designed to provide a successful university experience for students who are underrepresented in the mathematics and science fields and to enhance their prospects for future academic success. Students are registered in a university-level mathematics course for credit and there is no cost to the student. The program celebrated its 33rd year in 2018 and has touched the lives of more than 2,800 students. jbmshp. asu.edu

Mars Education Program

ASU Mars Education is the formal education partner of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Mars Education Program. ASU's

Mars Education is housed at the prestigious Mars Space Flight facility at ASU and provides workshops, field trips and other opportunities for teachers and students to join with scientists and assist the research process through contributing efforts within the excitement of Mars exploration. In addition, the program offers professional development conferences to train teachers how they can use space exploration to ignite their students' imaginations, while at the same time integrating STEM themes and inquiry-based learning into the curriculum. marsed. asu.edu

The Marston Exploration Theater is located on the ASU Tempe campus

Marston Exploration Theater

The Marston Exploration Theater offers shows three times a week with Definiti SkySkan Planetarium technology that render Earth and space science themes in 3D stereographic vision. Two presentations of note are "To the Edge of the Universe and Everything in Between" and "The Search: Exploring Unknown Worlds." Visitors are transported through a live narrated journey from Earth to the cosmic research of exoplanets. In addition, the School of Earth and Space Exploration also hosts the Gallery of Scientific Exploration, the Center for Meteorite Studies, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera Science Operations Center (LROC), open houses and a K-12 field trip program. sese.asu.edu/publicengagement

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SolarSPELL

Math Circle

Math Day and Math Circle at ASU

High school students are invited to Math Day, a field-trip to ASU offering fun and challenging workshops taught by internationally-recognized faculty. Students also listen to a special presentation by a guest speaker, enjoy complimentary lunch and the chance to win some great raffle prizes. ASU's School of Mathematics and Statistical Sciences also hosts the Math Circle, a mentoring program on the Tempe campus where highly motivated high school

students meet to work on challenging mathematical problems under the guidance of world-class research mathematicians. math.asu.edu/about/ community-outreach

PRIME

The Center for Practice, Research, and Innovation in Mathematics Education (PRIME) seeks to expand the talents and interests of PreK-20 students in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and computer science through research and development projects. Established in 2008, active programs include App Maker Pro (AMP) in high schools, Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) in colleges, and MATHadazzles for middle schools. The center received an Outstanding Afterschool Program Award of Excellence from the Arizona Center for Afterschool Excellence. prime.asu.edu

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Sanford Inspire Program

ASU's cutting-edge capacities in online education delivery allow training of teachers virtually anywhere at low cost. The Sanford Inspire Program, developed in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at ASU, provides educators with free, on-demand online modules that can be readily deployed in PreK-12 classrooms to enrich students' educational experience. Inspire modules have prepared and supported inspirational teachers and impacted more than 160,000 students globally.

School of Earth and Space Exploration Day

What do you see when you look to the heavens? Geology, astronomy and space technology form the core of a series of exciting activities where students can explore rockets, robots, learn about the Moon, Mars and Mercury, volcanoes, earthquakes, fossils and meteorites. This free annual event has attracted thousands in the last 18 years. sese.asu.edu/ public-engagement

SCience and ENgineering Experience (SCENE)

SCience and ENgineering Experience (SCENE) has linked science expertise and resources at ASU with high school students and teachers since 1998. High school students, grades 10 to 12, work in state-of-the-art labs at ASU, under the guidance of

professors and university students, to answer their own original research questions and compete in regional and national science competitions. SCENE is offered in several disciplines: biodesign, engineering, solid state science, life sciences and sustainability. eoss.asu.edu/access/ scene

SolarSPELL

Many islands in the Pacific Ocean lack two things that are essential for accessing information and performing educational pursuits: a library and the internet. Without this access, many teachers are without strong lesson plans or curriculum and community members lack books and multimedia. However, Associate Professor Laura Hosman in ASU's Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering and the School for the Future of Innovation in Society created a digital library that doesn't depend on existing internet connectivity. The library houses thousands of educational resources, including videos, ranging from math and English lessons to agricultural information to overviews of climate change, all curated by Hosman. There are now more than 200 SolarSPELL devices in the Pacific Islands, with many devices being managed by active Peace Corps volunteers. content-website

Summer Health Institute @ ASU

Interested in becoming a physician, dentist, physical therapist, optometrist, physician assistant, occupational therapist or a healthcare

provider? The Summer Health Institute@ASU provides 12th graders the opportunity to live on the ASU Downtown Phoenix campus for a week while experiencing a variety of interprofessional health-related activities and tours of health care facilities in Arizona. chs.asu.edu/ prehealth/summer-health-institute-asu

Summer Programs at ASU

Summer Health Institute @ ASU

ASU offers a range of summer STEM programs and more for youth, from sixth grade to high school. There are SummerUP camps where high school students experience life as a college student and do college-level coursework in 10 academic tracks, from sustainability and coding to forensics. There is ASU's Digital Culture Summer Institute, the Young Writer's Institute, iD Tech Camps and the Summer Experience at West. In engineering, the High School Summer Academy offers an App Camp, Robotics and Game Camp. There is also Barrett Summer Scholars designed for academically-talented and motivated students. eoss.asu. edu/access/programs/summer/search

schools' curriculum, campuses and larger communities. Supported by the Julie A. Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, the group's goal is to teach sustainability science to high school students and promote a sustainable future for the Phoenix metro area. sustainableschools.asu. edu

Sustainability Teacher's Academy

Summer Programs: the Young Writers's Institute

Sustainability Science for Sustainable Schools

This program is a collaboration between graduate students, high school teachers and sustainability researchers who strive to further sustainability science by bringing sustainability projects into high

The goal of the National Sustainability Teachers' Academy is to equip K-12 teachers with the knowledge, skills and tools to become agents of change. By infusing sustainability concepts and practices into schools, teachers can have a profound impact on motivating future leaders to create and innovate solutions to the economic, social and environmental challenges of our world. Teachers who participate in the intensive, five-day professional development workshop, upon completion, return with a site-specific action plan for promoting sustainability in their schools and communities. They also receive a suite of lesson plans and student activities based on real science, aligned to Common Core and Next Generations Science Standards, and easily adaptable to any class. sustainabilitysolutions.asu. edu/programs/teachersacademy

Young Engineers Shape the World

Young Engineers Shape the World is a two-year program offered by ASU's Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering that takes place during out-of-school time. The program seeks to help high school students view engineering as a socially relevant profession. Through a variety of weekend events, participants spend time exploring individual fields of engineering through hands-on activities that are developed to help shape their engineering identity. Aimed at attracting female students, firstgeneration students and those with financial need that are in 10th to 11th grade, the program seeks to increase the diversity of students pursuing engineering. youngengineers. engineering.asu.edu

Young Engineers Shape the World: camp

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STEM Enrollment Trends

Arizona State University has seen extreme growth in STEM-related disciplines. In fall 2004, STEMrelated disciplines had a total enrollment of 13,278 students. These numbers roughly doubled by 2017, with enrollment topping 27,278 students. Minority enrollment has more than tripled over this time period and enrollment by women has nearly doubled.

Enrollment in STEM-related disciplines*

30,000 25,000 20,000

All students Minority students Female students First-time freshmen

15,000

10,000

5,000

0 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Includes Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Psychology, Sciences (life/biological sciences, geosciences, physical sciences), and Technologies (engineering technology, science technology, educational technology, digital communication).

Enrollment counts are based on IPEDS campus reporting.

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Minority students 3,086 3,340 3,430 3,756 4,382 4,976 5,954 6,593 6,986 7,332 7,967 8,436 8,983 9,493 Female students 5,196 5,563 5,720 6,181 6,823 7,281 7,962 8,228 8,263 8,109 8,611 8,962 9,402 9,955

First-time Freshmen 1,729 1,991 1,834 2,335 2,692 2,730 3,201 3,196 3,493 3,513 4,047 4,337 4,482 4,483 All students 13,273 13,975 14,217 15,403 16,924 18,113 19,942 21,278 22,066 22,883 24,689 25,735 26,816 27,278

Enrollment trends by STEM-related disciplines*

30,000 25,000 20,000 15,000

Computer Science Engineering Mathematics Psychology Science Technologies

10,000

5,000

0 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Includes Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Psychology, Sciences (life/biological sciences, geosciences, physical sciences), and Technologies (engineering technology, science technology, educational technology, digital communication).

Enrollment counts are based on IPEDS campus reporting.

2004 Computer Science 1,147 Engineering 4,770 Mathematics 425 Psychology 2,149 Sciences 3,670 Technologies 1,112

2005 1,117 4,930

454 2,251 4,154 1,069

2006 1,261 4,800

446 2,321 4,342 1,047

2007 1,356 4,993

504 2,530 4,869 1,151

2008 1,437 5,145

607 2,806 5,676 1,253

2009 1,449 5,297

652 2,936 6,449 1,330

2010 1,587 5,907

666 3,313 6,982 1,487

2011 1,767 6,665

681 3,272 7,294 1,599

2012 2,163 7,453

692 2,797 7,343 1,618

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2,550 3,039 3,491 4,017 4,355 8,744 10,238 10,907 11,310 10,876

743 862 957 1,008 1,023 2,362 2,176 2,134 2,148 2,406 7,252 7,413 7,435 7,557 7,828 1,232 961 811 776 790

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Degrees Awarded Trends

With continual increases in enrollment, the STEM-related degrees awarded have also steadily increased. In the 20082009 academic year, the total degrees awarded was 3,392 (2,314 undergraduate and 1,078 graduate). In 2016-2017, STEM-related degrees awarded nearly doubled with 6,257 degree awarded (4,195 undergraduate and 2,062 graduate). This represents more than a third of the 18,261 degrees awarded in 2016-2017.

Degrees* awarded in STEM-related disciplines

7,000 6,000 5,000

Bachelor Master Doctor

4,000

3,000

2,000

1,000

0 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17

The academic year begins in summer and includes the following fall and spring terms.

Degree counts are based on IPEDS campus reporting.

2008-09

Bachelor

2,314

Master

840

Doctor

238

Total

3,392

2009-10 2,560

803 219 3,582

2010-11 2,807

842 230 3,879

2011-12 3,319 1,047

243 4,609

2012-13 3,475 1,184 251 4,910

2013-14 3,685 1,382 251 5,318

2014-15 3,771 1,718 281 5,770

2015-16 4,038 1,871 286 6,195

2016-17 4,195 1,769 293 6,257

Degrees* awarded to minorities in STEM-related disciplines

2,000 1,800 1,600

Bachelor Master Doctor

1,400

1,200

1,000

800

600

400

200

0 2008-09 2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

The academic year begins in summer and includes the following fall and spring terms.

Degree counts are based on IPEDS campus reporting.

2008-09

Bachelor

564

Master

90

Doctor

32

Total

686

2009-10 637 93 29 759

2010-11 775 120 30 925

2011-12 1,013

162 30

1,205

2012-13 1,088 183 22 1,293

2013-14 1,215 199 29 1,443

2014-15 1,289

210 32 1,531

2015-16 1,494 253 33 1,780

2016-17 1,525 250 29 1,804

*Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) defined STEM degrees and disciplines.

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