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Blossom STEM: A Bilingual Parent-Child Co-Reading Platform for Promoting a Growth Mindset towards STEM Interest among English Language Learners (ELL) and Their Caregivers

Award Number: R44GM137681
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

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Blossom STEM: A Bilingual Parent-Child Co-Reading Platform for Promoting a Growth Mindset towards STEM Interest among English Language Learners (ELL) and Their Caregivers - Project Summary English language learners (ELLs) are a growing population and underserved with regards to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) resources. Of the limited supply of bilingual STEM materials, the majority follows an outdated, side-by-side presentation of English content and its foreign-language translation. On top of the many academic and socioeconomic obstacles, the ELL population must also contend with stereotypes and misperceptions that are detrimental to STEM achievement. Furthermore, outcome-based research thus far has concentrated on STEM educational and career achievement as the endpoint and has produced limited insight as to the underlying psychological and behavioral mechanisms that lead to those outcomes. This project will develop a much-needed resource for ELLs in the four-to-seven age segment, in the form of interactive STEM-themed storybooks that promote parent-child co-reading activities. The interactive storybooks will feature graduated bilingual text and audio in five blended ratios of the native language (L1) and English (L2) to accommodate the diverse variabilities of intergenerational language fluency. Culturally relevant stories that feature relatable role models for both the adult and child readers and infused with STEM-related themes will be engineered to tackle stereotypes and encourage involvement from parents who are limited English proficient. Mechanisms that influence ELL students’ STEM outcomes -- such as empowerment of parents to be involved in nurturing their children’s STEM interest and encouraging incremental beliefs among ELL students about their own intelligence -- will be baked into the eBook content and intervention design. This project aims to create a corpus of interactive eBooks that are blended in the English-Spanish pair and evaluate the system’s feasibility in Phase I and then efficacy and sustainability in Phase II for increasing children’s perceived competence in and affinity for STEM subject matters and their families’ support for their learning and interest in STEM subject matters.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = -$41,652 )
2025	2022	TRANSCENDENT INTERNATIONAL LLC	405 LEXINGTON AVE	NEW YORK	NY	10174	NEW YORK	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	000	3	10/24/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$41,652
														Subtotal = -$41,652

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2023	2022	TRANSCENDENT INTERNATIONAL LLC	405 LEXINGTON AVE	NEW YORK	NY	10174	NEW YORK	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	000	3	5/2/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $776,388 )
2022	2022	TRANSCENDENT INTERNATIONAL, LLC	405 LEXINGTON AVE FL 9	NEW YORK	NY	10174	NEW YORK	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	000	3	9/23/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$776,388
														Subtotal = $776,388

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $776,388 )
2021	2021	TRANSCENDENT INTERNATIONAL, LLC	405 LEXINGTON AVE FL 9	NEW YORK	NY	10174	NEW YORK	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	001	2	7/31/2021	EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS	$776,388
2021	2021	TRANSCENDENT INTERNATIONAL, LLC	405 LEXINGTON AVE FL 9	NEW YORK	NY	10174	NEW YORK	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	003	2	9/21/2021	EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS	$0
2021	2020	TRANSCENDENT INTERNATIONAL, LLC	405 LEXINGTON AVE FL 9	NEW YORK	NY	10174	NEW YORK	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	002	1	8/8/2021	NEW	$0
2021	2020	TRANSCENDENT INTERNATIONAL, LLC	405 LEXINGTON AVE FL 9	NEW YORK	NY	10174	NEW YORK	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	000	1	7/30/2021	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $776,388

Issue Date FY: 2020 ( Subtotal = $231,500 )
2020	2020	TRANSCENDENT INTERNATIONAL, LLC	405 LEXINGTON AVE FL 9	NEW YORK	NY	10174	NEW YORK	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	000	1	5/25/2020	NEW	$231,500
														Subtotal = $231,500

Grand Total All Awards = $1,742,625

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Blossom STEM: A Bilingual Parent-Child Co-Reading Platform for Promoting a Growth Mindset towards STEM Interest among English Language Learners (ELL) and Their Caregivers

Award Number: R44GM137681

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

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