KidsTeam is made possible by many volunteers, faculty, and students.
Jason Yip is the Director
of KidsTeamÂ
Jason Yip is an assistant professor at The Information School and adjunct assistant professor in Human Centered Design & Engineering in University of Washington. His research examines how technologies can support parents and children learning together. He is a co-principal investigator on a National Science Foundation Cyberlearning project on designing social media technologies to support neighborhoods learning science together. He is the director of KidsTeam UW, an intergenerational group of children (ages 7 – 11) and researchers co-designing new technologies and learning activities for children, with children.
Dr. Yip is the principal investigator of a Google Faculty Research Award project that examines how Latino children search and broker online information for their English-language learning parents. Dr. Yip is the principal investigator on an Institute of Museum and Library Services grant to study how to integrate intergenerational co-design group in urban and rural libraries. Finally, Dr. Yip has won a National Institutes of Health award into examining the use of mobile technologies to support children’s sun exposure and skin cancer. He holds a B.A. (2001) in chemistry and M.S.Ed (2002) in science and math education from the University of Pennsylvania, and a
Ph.D. (2014) in curriculum and instruction from the University
of Maryland.
Caroline Pitt is the KidsTeam Lab Manager
Caroline Pitt is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Information School at the University of Washington, Seattle, with a partial appointment to Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE). She received her doctorate and master's in information science from the iSchool and undergraduate degrees in psychology and anthropology from the University of Maryland, College Park. She currently acts as lab manager for KidsTeam UW. Her research focuses on designing informal educational technologies with and for youth and their communities, as well as developing best practices for concluding long-term research-practice partnerships in informal settings. She is also interested in the potential of tabletop roleplaying and other games for collaborative learning, and the potential for machine learning/AI to support executive function. She has published in the journals Information and Learning Science and Library & Information Science Research, as well as presented at CHI (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems), IDC (Interaction Design and Children) , and the AERA (American Educational Research Association) annual meeting.
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2022-2023
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2021-2022
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Anna Shi
Bowie Mandelbaum (MLIS)
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Ji Yu
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Louis Ton
2020-2021
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Christina Kennedy (MLIS)
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2019-2020
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Alli Hishikawa
Minhyung Jo (MLIS)
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Sarah Strickler
Paola Vanegas
Amanda Zhu
Britnie Chin
Troy Hilton (MSIM)
Christina Kennedy (MLIS)
Jason Li
Colleen Park
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Hedy Jiang
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Leanne Liu
Maria Ruiz (MLIS)
Eden Tassaw
Catherine Zeng
2018-2019
Diana (Griffing) Condon
Yini Guan (MSIM)
Kalyani Katariya (MS CS)
Chris Lu (MLIS)
Romaine Ofiana
Echo Zhang
Sunny Cui
Michael Ji
Tiffany Ku (MSIM)
Kelsey Morgan (MLIS)
Ju An Oh
Cherise Fuselier (MLIS)
Ellani Johnson
Yuansi Li
Anthony Nguyen
Hayley Younghusband
2017-2018
Hitomi Bloom (MLIS)
Lydia Davison
Cynthia Graff (MLIS)
Samirah Mashayekh
Arturo Salazar
Kelly Chandler (MLIS)
Erika Dillman (MHCDE)
Brianne Hawes (MLIS)
Kari Nasu
Mariah Tao
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Alice Erickson (MLIS)
Rio Ishii
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2016-2017
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Jana Reis (Masters Cert)
Shirley Chen
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2015-2016
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