Antonenko, P., Dawson, K., Xu, Z., Koh, D. H., Wusylko, C., Benedict, A., Bhunia, S. (2022). CryptoComics: Design of an Integrative STEM+C Transmedia Curriculum. International Association for Research on Science Teaching.
This paper addresses the need for educators to generate more and better solutions for integrating STEM+C disciplines in afterschool programs. In project CryptoComics, we explored and determined that cryptology may be a useful pathway to introduce children as young as 8 years old to authentic STEM+C problems, processes, and tools, and get them excited about the role cryptology and cryptologists in the past, present, and future of our society.