$1.5M NSF GRANT TO SUPPORT K-12 LEARNING WITH REAL-WORLD EDUCATIONAL DATASET

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Sept. 9 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Traditionally, high school students who may be interested in engineering, science or technology fields have prepared for their future careers by taking advanced math and science courses. However, according to Rebecca Napolitano, associate professor of architectural engineering at Penn State, the datasets students use to solve problems in their high school classes bear little resemblance to real-world data that she and other engineers work with.

"Real-world data has never been clean," Napolitano said. "But that's the kind of data we've been handing K-12 students: tidy, well-behaved, pre-solved, no dead ends. Real indust...