TINE RESEARCH - Build-It Box Kits

Tine researches the gulf in academic success between students who live in poverty and those who don’t. “There are two aspects to that work,” she says. “We identify cognitive processes that underlie the income achievement gap, and we create interventions that address those inequities and can improve education and learning and development for all.” To that end, she and three undergraduate students are designing and assembling Build-It Boxes kits, aimed at sharpening STEM skills for 300 rural middle schoolers. Read about it here: https://news.dartmouth.edu/news/2018/02/undergraduates-design-science-kits-middle-schoolers?utm_source=vox_daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=vox_daily_2018_2_02 and here: http://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2018/02/research-team-creates-science-boxes-for-low-income-students