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Two Tinker Fellows will develop innovations in AI

2026 Tinker Fellows Amelia McNamara and Yizhu Gao

The Robert F. Tinker Fellows Program aims to promote innovation, creativity, and cross-disciplinary conversations. We’re thrilled to announce that two 2026 Tinker Fellows will focus on innovations in artificial intelligence (AI) to help transform teaching and learning. Amelia McNamara will explore how custom AI models can support teachers’ and students’ critical thinking and data science […]

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Announcing Two Tinker Fellows for 2023

2023 Tinker Fellows Colby Tofel-Grehl and Cristián Rizzi Iribarren

The theme for this year’s Robert F. Tinker Fellows Program, which aims to promote innovation, creativity, and cross-disciplinary conversations, focuses on diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM education. We are delighted to announce two Tinker Fellows in 2023. Colby Tofel-Grehl will collaborate on a geoscience project and plans to develop companion professional learning materials for […]

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Announcing Two Tinker Fellows for 2022

2022 Tinker Fellows

The theme for this year’s Robert F. Tinker Fellows Program, which aims to promote innovation, creativity, and cross-disciplinary conversations, focuses on inclusion, equity, and access in STEM education. We are delighted to announce two Tinker Fellows in 2022. Heather Barker will create data exploration activities for students from middle grades through introductory statistics college courses […]

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