Conference Session

DSAI Technical Session 1: K–12 and Early Exposure to Data Science and AI

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carrie Grace Aponte, Kansas State University; Safia Malallah, Kansas State University; Lior Shamir, Kansas State University

Tagged Divisions

Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) Constituent Committee

education coincides with the evolution of data science as a field, whosemeaning has shifted significantly since its inception. While the term ”Data Science” has existedsince the 1990s, its meaning has changed substantially over time. While the original definition ofdata science focused on the storage and management of data, the term is used currently inreference to the process of turning data into insights and new knowledge.Understanding the data science life cycle is essential to designing effective education frameworksfor K-12 learners. The data science life cycle involves several main steps: problem definition,getting domain knowledge and designing research, data planning and collection, data cleaningand wrangling, feature engineering and