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KidsTeam is made possible by many volunteers, faculty, and students.

Jason Yip is the Director
of KidsTeam 

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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

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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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Research Assistants

2022-2023

Sakshi Abhyankar

Rim Wolde

Adora Pham

Ritesh Kanchi

Linh Chi

Sam You

Maia Song

Xiaofu Li

Xinran (Rannie) Li

Boris Hu

Pavel Batalov (MLIS)

Mandy Wu

Matthew Kyle Pedraja

Grace Kim

Li-Neishin Co

Yisha Zhao

Tam Tran

Hongjie (Steven) Wang

Catherine Lien

Steven Hu

René Capella

Chengmiao Xu

Grace Shin

Caleb Lee

Hongyiming Cui

Ilena Dalla Gasperina

2021-2022

Linh Bui (MS HCDE)

Fumi Tsukiyama (MS HCDE)

Anna Shi

Bowie Mandelbaum (MLIS)

Madeline Fox (MLIS)

Ji Yu

Chris Fu

Delaney Edwards

Atharv Wairagade

Lena Tran

Iva Martinovic (MS HCDE)

Linh Pham

Michelle Ma

Frannie Ello

Anastasia Wolf (MS HCDE)

Louis Ton

2020-2021

Feben Alemu

Britnie Chin

Christina Kennedy (MLIS)

Charlotte McGrew (MLIS)

Katie Wang

Molly Benson (MLIS)

Madeline Fox (MLIS)

Bowie Mandelbaum (MLIS)

Harkiran Saluja

Nora Casey

Youjin Jung

Montserrat Martinez

Paola Vanegas

2019-2020

Jocelyn Afandi

Alli Hishikawa

Minhyung Jo (MLIS)

Ziyue (Irene) Li

Sungmin Na

Sarah Strickler

Paola Vanegas

Amanda Zhu

Britnie Chin

Troy Hilton (MSIM)

Christina Kennedy (MLIS)

Jason Li

Colleen Park

Harkinan Suluja

Samantha Yee

Xin Gao

Hedy Jiang

Miles Lederman

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

Sijin (Amy) Chen

Alice Erickson (MLIS)

Rio Ishii

Sunghwan (Justin) Park

2016-2017

Aria Cha

Jana Reis (Masters Cert)

Shirley Chen

Vichit (Mike) Sitthideth

Yi (Carol) Cheng

2015-2016

Lindsey Arnold (MHCDE)

Alysse (Gallo) Schwertscharf (MHCDE)

Sarah Chipman​

Sangeun Lee (MHCDE)

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