White Papers
Incredibleminds Afterschool Career Roleplaying Program
IncredibleMinds offers experiential and immersive STEM career education to minority youth. The program addresses three critical educational needs: strengthening the STEM pipeline, targeting under-served locations and offering parental career guidance. We achieve this through the innovative use of video games, modeling and simulation tools and an extensible career roleplaying framework. This whitepaper was originally written for the NASA education team.
Department of Energy Real World Challenge
Nothing inspires innovation and collaboration like a great challenge. The Real World Challenge offer teams of middle school and high school students the opportunity to solve “real world” science, engineering and technology problems faced by industry. We developed the Real World Challenge Program for the U.S. DoE Office of Workforce Development for Scientists and Teachers.
In-Demand Magazine Careers in Energy
In-Demand Magazine Careers in Energy will tell you all about the energy industry, and it might give you an idea for your future career.It talks about what you need to learn and do to get that first great job. Whether you want to be a skilled drilling rig operator…a nuclear engineer…or a renewable energy developer, there are lots ofcareers in energy that pay well.
Science Technology Engineering Careers
This issue of In-Demand Magazine illustrates how math and science skills are key to entering multiple career paths in most high-growth industries. These opportunities are available to analytical students as well as creative students; to students who prefer to work on teams and those who prefer to work alone; to students who are interested in the environment, computers, geography, statistics and/or chemistry, to name only a few fields.
Sim Challenge Whitepaper
Our nation faces a critical challenge: we must grow the ranks of scientists and engineers to remain at the international forefront of scientific discovery. This white paper sets forth the concept of using digital design challenges to advance science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education.
Culture of Exploration Whitepaper
This whitepaper supports our presentation, which was given at the National Academies. We argue that we should use “Serious Game” technologies to inspire the American public and the next generation of space explorers, scientists and engineers. This work was part of a larger effort that resulted in NASA’s current Massively Multiplayer Online Game.