UANews Featured - UA Trains Visually Impaired Youth for STEM

Monday, July 10, 2017

Project POEM has been featured on UANews!

Be sure to check out the featured article about Project POEM by UANews. Below is an excerpt from the UANews article written by La Monica Everett-Haynes.

"Called Project POEM, short for Project-Based Learning Opportunities and Exploration of Mentorship for Students With Visual Impairments in STEM, the effort will involve 35 middle and high school students with visual impairments in a 14-month program meant to train them toward the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.

"Mars is one of the most fascinating topics in the world of science today. If a student has an opportunity to study and to analyze data collected from Mars, that would be a very exciting and motivational component to helping students' interest in science," said Hong, associate professor in the UA College of Education's Department of Disability and Psychoeducational Studies and principal investigator on the NSF grant."

Here is the link to the article:

https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/ua-trains-visually-impaired-youth-stem

The project will utilize publically available images and data from the HiRISE camera currently operating on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).