Virginia Tech, and Principal Investigator, Mitzi Vernon, were awarded a grant, titled Planning Phoebe's Field, from the Informal Science Education division at the National Science Foundation. Co-Principal Investigators included Katherine Cennamo, Michael Ermann, Steve Harrison, and Margarita McGrath. Students from multiple disciplines at Virginia Tech and Arizona State University were key developers. The $75,000 grant sponsored the planning of a traveling exhibition based on book one of the interCONNECTIONS series, Phoebe's Field.

Several key documents were produced from this grant including the following:

A Planning Project Book created by the faculty and student team as an archive of the work from the grant period. Click on the link for viewing online.

A Literature Review authored by Dr. Phyllis Newbill, working with Co-PI, Dr. Katherine Cennamo.
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An Evaluation Report from the Goodman Research Group on the front end interviews conducted with middle schoolers.
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