Research

Invited Panels

Waight, N. (2025, March). Fixing Bikes, Building Futures: How Cycling Programs Empower Youth Through STEM. Panel Session at the 2025 National Bike Summit, Washington, DC.

Publications

Rish, R., Waight, N., Tripp, J., Scheuneman, S., Mozaffari, F., Goehrig, F., Jackson, D., Kahveci, E., Johnson, G., Marks, D.R., Ianni, A., Wisoff, S., & Huffman, K. (2025). Mobilizing youth STEM learning trajectories on bicycles. Proceedings of the International Society of the Learning Sciences Annual Meeting (pp. 1958-1962). Helsinki, Finland.

Waight, N., Rish, R., Tripp, J., Scheuneman, S., Mozaffari, F., Goehrig, F., Jackson, D., Robert, S., Wisoff, S., & Marks, D.R. (2025). Portraitures of STEMCyclists youth: Joy and liberation for critical and transformative STEM learning. Proceedings of the International Society of the Learning Sciences Annual Meeting (pp. 2950-2952). Helsinki, Finland.

Peer-Reviewed Conference  Presentations 

Rish, R., Waight, N., Tripp, J., Scheuneman, S., Mozaffari, F., Goehrig, F., Jackson, D., Kahveci, E., Johnson, G., Marks, D.R., Ianni, A., Wisoff, S., & Huffman, K. (2025, June). Mobilizing youth STEM learning trajectories on bicycles. International Society of the Learning Sciences Annual Meeting, Helsinki, Finland. (paper presentation)

Waight, N., Rish, R., Tripp, J., Scheuneman, S., Mozaffari, F., Gohrig, F., Jackson, D., Robert, S., Wisoff, S., & Marks, D.R. (2025, June). Portraitures of STEMCyclists youth: Joy and liberation for critical and transformative STEM learning. International Society of the Learning Sciences Annual Meeting, Helsinki, Finland. (poster presentation)

Perez, G., Shrestha, P., Cameron, T., Kayumova, S., Waight, N., & Rish, R. (2025, June). The role of peer interaction and language resources in informal engineering learning environments: The case for learning through biking. American Society for Engineering Education Conference, Montreal, Canada. (paper presentation)

Waight, N. (2025, April). Fostering Partnerships in Community to Tap into Brilliance of Youth and Science. Round table paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Denver, Colorado.

Mozaffari, F., Waight, N.; Rish, R., Scheunemann, S., Goehrig, F., & Tripp, J. (2025, April). Exploring Linguistic Practices: Black and Brown Youth Brilliance and Confidence with STEM Learning. Round table paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Denver, Colorado.

Waight, N., Rish, R., Tripp, J., Wisoff, S., & Marks, D. R. (2025, March). Bicycles and STEM: Unearthing Black and Brown Genius. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.

Waight, N., Rish, R., Tripp, J., Wisoff, S., & Marks, D.M. (2025, March). Bicycles and STEM: Unearthing Black and Brown genius. National Association for Research in Science Teaching, National Harbor, MD. (paper presentation)

Waight, N., Tripp, J., Roberts, S., Rish, R., & Miles, M. (2023, August). Biking to transgress boundaries: Transforming pre-service science teachers critical consciousness. European Science Education Research Association, Cappadocia, Turkey. (paper presentation)

Waight, N., Robert, S., Tripp, J., Rish, R.M., Ramdath, K., & Miles, M. (2023, April). Biking to uncover science in urban communities: Pre-service Science teachers’ critical conscientization of science-community. National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Chicago, IL. (paper presentation)