Meet Our Founder

Mercy Adoma Fosu, PhD

Mercy Adoma Fosu is the visionary behind STEAMovations Educational Consulting which she founded in 2023. Mercy has a strong background in biochemistry, chemistry education, and technology. She is passionate about applying her professional and academic experiences in order to provide outstanding educational services. Additionally, Mercy is interested in the ways in which mathematics, science, and engineering intertwine. Mercy’s research focuses on technology integration in STEAM education.

Mercy has extensive experience in K-12 and higher education, curriculum development and integrations, summative and formative assessments tools, and training educators to incorporate technology, games, and simulated modules in STEAM throughout the USA and Ghana. Mercy has managed projects and coordinated large-scale data collection and analysis studies and has broad experience in quantitative and qualitative research method development and analyses. She has developed a series of curricula for higher education and public school districts.

Mercy is an active member of the American Chemical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Science Teachers Association, and American Chemical Society’s Division of Chemical Education. She serves as a peer-reviewer for several journals including American Education Research Association (AERA) and has been a member of a review panelist for several education grants in the United States. Mercy is a certified STEAM Professional developer from South Dakota State University. 

Mercy Adoma earned her PhD in Chemistry Education from South Dakota State University in 2020. Mercy’s dissertation focused on Technology-based Culturally Relevant/Responsive Chemistry Education (CRCE). She has a graduate certificate of excellence in Teaching and Learning from South Dakota State University. Mercy is a Learning Analytics in STEM education research fellow from North Carolina State University, and Science communication Fellow from Science Discovery Center, Pierre, SD.

Professional

Work

    • Fosu A. M., Gupta T., and Michael Social Media in Chemistry: Using Learning Management System and Twitter for Improving Student Perceptions and Performance in Chemistry Chapter 13 (2019) 1318. ACS Symposium Series.

    • Fosu A. M., Students Engagement in a multi-level classroom with complex instruction- In Preparation.

    • Fosu A. M. Technology-based Culturally Relevant Chemistry Education. PhD Dissertation.

    • Spark C., Fosu A. M., and Gupta T. Game based learning in chemistry (GLIC): Gamification of Laboratory safety-In Preparation.

    • Fosu A. M., Gupta T., and Michael, S. ACS Midwest Regional Meeting, Ames, Iowa, October 2018. Social Media in Chemistry: Using Learning Management System and Twitter for Improving Student Perceptions and Performance in Chemistry.

    • Fosu A. M., and Gupta T. South Dakota Science Communication Fellowship Conference, Pierre, South Dakota, May 2019 (Oral and prototype presentation). Understanding the Origin of Chemistry.

    • Fosu A. M., and Gupta T. Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, Corvallis, Oregon, Abstract accepted March 31, 2020, but was terminated in April 2, 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic by Executive committee of the Division of Chemical Education, American Chemical Society. Technology-based Culturally Relevant Education in Chemistry Teaching and Learning.

    • Fosu A. M., Spark C., and Gupta T. Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, Corvallis, Oregon, Abstract accepted March 31, 2020, but was terminated in April 2, 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic by Executive committee of the Division of Chemical Education, American Chemical Society. Game based learning in chemistry (GLIC): Gamification of Laboratory safety.

    • Fosu A. M., and Gupta T. ACS Midwest Regional Meeting, Wichita, Kansas, October 2019). Technology-based Culturally Relevant Chemistry Education (CRCE).

    • Spark C., Fosu A. M., and Gupta T. ACS Midwest Regional Meeting, Wichita, Kansas, October 2019. Gamification of Laboratory safety in Chemistry.

    • Gupta T., Fosu A. M., and Michael S., Great Lakes Regional Meeting on Chemical Education Research, Lisle, Illinois, May 2019.. Self-Assigned Learning Teams (SALT): Implementation and outcomes in general chemistry.

    • Gupta T., and Fosu A. M. Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, Notre Dame, Indiana, July,2018). Social Media in chemistry classroom: Generation-Z perspectives.

    • Fosu A. M., and Gupta T. Chemistry Education Research Graduate Student and Post-Doc Professional Development Conferences, Oxford, Ohio July 2019 (Poster Presentation). Technology-based Culturally Relevant Chemistry Education (CRCE).

    • Fosu A. M., and Gupta T. Sioux Valley ACS Symposium & Poster Session, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, September 2019. Integration of Culturally Relevant Education in Chemistry Teaching and Learning.

    • Fosu A. M., and Gupta T. Growing Research Champions Symposium & Poster Session, Brookings, South Dakota, October 2019. Technology-based Culturally Relevant Education in Chemistry Teaching and Learning.

    • Fosu A. M., and Gupta T. Celebration of Faculty Excellence, Faculty Posters, Publications or Creative Arts, Brookings, South Dakota, February 2020. Technology-based Culturally Relevant Education in Chemistry Teaching and Learning.

    • Sparks C., Hasselquist L., Gupta T., Fosu A. M., Nepal P.M., NIFA-funded REEU, Brookings, South Dakota, August 2019). Analysis of Learning Lab Safety Using Gamification in Chemistry & Biology Courses.

    • Belford, R. E., Bucholtz, C. E., Gupta T., Ridley D. D., Fosu A. M., Geoul T., Katz, D. N. Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, Notre Dame, Indiana, July 2018 (Poster Presentation). Bringing Reaxys into the classroom.

    • Fosu A. M. Newton Public School Department Meeting, Newton, Massachusetts November 2021. Understanding the impact of CRCE in High School Setting.