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Valerie A. Carr, San Jose State University; Maureen C. Smith, San Jose State University; Belle Wei, San Jose State University; Morris E. Jones Jr., San Jose State University

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, no. 3, pp. 191–210, Sep. 2018.[21] S. Mitchell, K. Cole, and A. Joshi, “X+CS: A Computing Pathway for Non-Computer Science Majors,” In Proceedings of the 2020 Mid-Atlantic Spring Conference, Baltimore, MD, USA, Mar. 27-28, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/33941.

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Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Julie Dyke Ford, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Susannah Howe, Smith College; Daria A. Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder; Robin Ott, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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per year. All include at least a full-year of senior design; one has a 4-semester designsequence that begins in students’ junior year. Finally, all use a course coordinator coupled withindividual faculty and/or industry mentors for each team. Team sizes are generally 4-6 students.The sites are also geographically diverse (northeast, mid-Atlantic, mountain west, and southwest)and include both public and private institutions.SamplingParticipants were recruited through a combination of in-person or video presentations from amember of the research team and emails sent through the capstone courses. Potential participantscompleted a screening survey. Our target was 20 participants per year from each ME programand 10 participants per year from the

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Amanda Gonczi, Michigan Technological University; Whitney Nicole McCoy, University of Virginia; Robert M. Handler; Jennifer L. Maeng, University of Virginia

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informing mechanisms to helpteachers realize the vision set forth in the NGSS, increase science achievement, and foster STEMinterest and a STEM identity among students. MethodsContext and ParticipantsParticipants included 27 grade K-8 teachers in a mid-Atlantic state. These teachers representedthe first of two cohorts involved in an NSF funded project designed to support ETS instruction.Baseline data was collected on these teachers prior to professional development between Januaryand April 2020. Participants were primarily White (n = 20) and female (n = 23). Teachingexperience ranged from one to thirty-four years (M = 12.6; SD = 10.0). All participants held adegree in education and none had a degree in