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Key Personnel

- PI Glenn D. Blank, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, will act as the Project Director and will be responsible for the administration of the award, management of the project, and interactions with the NSF, as well as one of the LAUNCH-IT outreach teams.  He was the PI of a current CRCD project (Grant No. 0087977) and several related projects sponsored by the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Association as well as a Co-PI of the LVPTF GK-12 project (Grant No. 0231768), for which he serves as Faculty Team Leader for the Broughal Middle School and Dieruff High School outreach teams.  He is also lead author of The Universal Computer: Introducing Computer Science with Multimedia and supervises several graduate students developing an intelligent tutoring system to help students Java “design-first.”   

- Co-PI Henry Odi, Executive Director for Academic Outreach and Special Projects, will coordinate the activities of the LAUNCH-IT program in conjunction with the S.T.A.R. Academy (33%).

- Co-PI Duke Perreira, P.C. Rossin Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, will lead one of the outreach teams. 

- Co-PI H. Lynn Columba, Associate Professor in Education and Human Services in Lehigh University’s Graduate College of Education, will plan and lead the workshop for the LAUNCH-IT outreach teams before each summer session as well as lead one of the LAUNCH-IT outreach teams.  She is a Co-PI of the LVPTF GK-12 project and brings broad expertise in STEM education and experience in performing assessment in an educational setting to the project (20%).

- Consultant  M. Jean Russo,  research scientist and scholar at the Center for Social Research at Lehigh University, will oversee and carry out the evaluation (20%).

- Program Director Colleen E. Solomon serves as the liason between Launch-IT staff members, administration and Launch-IT students and parents.

- Admisnistrative Assistant Priyani Jayeliteke, will oversee the day-to-day administrative activities.

- Teachers will be recruited from the Bethlehem Area and Allentown School Districts.  The PIs already have excellent working relationships with teachers and administrators through the S.T.A.R. and LVPTF GK-12 project.