Category: Tag: Isles of Ilkmaar
For many nonprofit organizations and institutions of higher education, recent Fridays have been overshadowed by a sense of dread. For four successive Fridays—April 18, April 25, May 2, and May 9—over 1,400 National Science Foundation (NSF) awards were abruptly terminated in enormous weekly batches. (There were a few letters of termination on other days of […]
Update: The Data Science Learning for Middle School-aged Girls in Informal Gaming Clubs project was one of over 1,000 grants terminated by the National Science Foundation in April 2025. In the Isles of Ilkmaar, a fictional multiplayer game featuring an archipelago of diverse and magical biomes, middle school players are both data creators and data […]