The World Smarts STEM Challenge: A promising approach to fostering STEM and global competence skills for adolescents in the US and Ghana

• Esther Kim,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

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• Martha Batul,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

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• Sarah Bever,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation IREX, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Amaris Mohammed,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation IREX, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Amanda Nepomunceno,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation IREX, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Harrison Owusu,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation IREX, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Adam Hartstone-Rose,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

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• Kelly Lynn Mulvey

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: klmulvey1@ncsu.edu

  Affiliation North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1292-9066

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