

Sound Travels and MassArt host Listening Launchpad
On Thursday July 24 Amanda McCluskey, Mass College of Art, and Martha Merson, PI on Sound Travels, had conversations about listening and soundscape with an estimated 50-100 kids and adults as part of World Listening Day events.

ND in STEM at TERC Partners on SPARK to Bring STEM & Coding to Youth Experiencing Homelessness
Through SPARK, we work with trusted community spaces—shelters, libraries, housing providers, and community centers—to host free coding and STEM camps for elementary-aged youth.

TERC Staff Workshop at the 2025 Play Make Learn Conference in Madison, WI
Presenters: Ken Rafanan, Elise Levin-Guracar, and Teresa Lara-Meloy Come learn how to design camouflaged making-based assessment tasks. Assessments are often necessary for justifying making-based education to stakeholders, but traditional assessments are rarely aligned with the values and learning goals of making programs.

TERC Staff present at the END 2025 Conference
View sessions from Ken Rafanan, Nuria Jaumot-Pascual, Teresa Lara-Meloy, Jennifer Knudsen, and Elise Levin-Güracar that cover their range of Making projects

New Publication Shows What’s Possible When All Students Are Seen as Mathematicians
A new book by Susan Jo Russell and Deborah Schifter offers a powerful vision for K–5 math classrooms where all students thrive. Learn how equitable participation and deep math learning go hand in hand.

TERC Staff present at the END 2025 Conference
View sessions from Ken Rafanan, Nuria Jaumot-Pascual, Teresa Lara-Meloy, Jennifer Knudsen, and Elise Levin-Güracar that cover their range of Making projects

Sound Travels host two World Listening Day Events
Sound Travels, the project that led ReSounding Success to celebrate NSF's 75th Anniversary, is hosting a two events to celebrate World Listening Day. World Listening Day Tune Up, July 10 at 3pm ET World Listening Day Soundwalk, July 17 at 7:30pm ET

TERC Staff Present on AI Ethics in Higher Education at ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education)Conference
On June 23, 2025 Jim Hammerman presented his paper titled "Expanding AI Ethics in Higher Education Technical Curricula: A Study on Perceptions and Learning Outcomes of College Students" co-authored with Miss Indu Varshini Jayapal and Dr. Theodora Chaspari, both of the University of Colorado Boulder, during Technical Session 2: Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education.

ReSounding Success: Celebrating 75 Years of STEM with the NSF
ReSounding Success celebrated sound and science in Chicago on May 10, 2025. The event offered Chicago residents ways to explore sound and learn about the National Science Foundation’s role in supporting citizen science and research projects on the design of out-of-school learning.
