UWRF National Science Foundation Grant

High school students in western Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota will learn the latest advancements in computer science, thanks to a $550,786 National Science Foundation grant received by the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and two partner universities.  

UWRF partnered with the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and the University of Wisconsin-Stout to successfully qualify for grant funding.

The grant dollars will enable the three universities to train high school teachers for the next three summers in the St. Croix Valley region to conduct research in computer science and develop materials to teach the subject, boosting the region’s future economy in the process.  

Teachers will spend four weeks at either UWRF or UW-Eau Claire to learn computer science research from faculty at the schools.

They will then spend three weeks at UW-Stout to develop curriculum models and conduct educational research.   

The project aims to expand the number of qualified computer science teachers in western Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota.

PHOTO: Anthony Varghese, chair of the Computer, Information and Data Sciences Department at UW-River Falls, teaches a computer science class at the university. Varghese will instruct high school computer science teachers how to conduct research on that topic as part of a three-year program in conjunction with UW-Eau Claire and UW-Stout. UWRF file photo