Team Science for National Science Foundation Tech Accelerators and Grantees
The science is complex. The teamwork doesn't have to be.
Your center has been awarded — or is pursuing — an NSF Tech Accelerator grant.
Where did the Team Science curriculum come from?
We built it. We're available to partner with your team and bring it to life.
Our Role in this Program
When NSF launched the Convergence Accelerator in 2019, we were engaged first as program advisers and then as faculty instructors delivering team science as part of the Innovation Curriculum — a required, multi-month experience for all Phase 1 grantees.
Working alongside collaborators Michael O'Rourke and Edgar Cardenas of the Toolbox Dialogue Initiative at Michigan State University, we developed and delivered a unified, integrated team science curriculum across multiple cohorts of NSF-funded research teams.
That curriculum is now being carried into the Tech Accelerator program. The content is the same. The need is the same. And the people who built it are available to partner with your center.
NSF Tech Accelerator centers are responsible for identifying and engaging their own team science experts and facilitators. We are actively seeking to partner with awarded centers — as subcontractors, co-facilitators, or embedded faculty — to deliver the curriculum your grantees need.
What we Developed and Delivered
By the Numbers
Four
NSF-produced videos featuring our content
Seven
Months working along slide multiple teams in each cohort
>450
Interdisciplinary research teams taking ideas to societal good
5,000+
Views and downloads of the collaboration agreement