Bringing Young Minority Women to the Threshold of Science

该项目旨在使年轻的少数民族妇女在未来感兴趣 为他们提供丰富的技能， 激励措施和职业选择所依据的榜样。 24名9年级、10年级和6年级的女高中生 学校将选出科学教师参加为期10天的 暑期培训计划，为他们在软件团队中工作做好准备 由四名学生和一名教师顾问组成。各小组将制作 高质量的科学教育软件在学年 在夏季会议之后。 这6支球队将从 华盛顿特区。 这种模式的意义在于它能够提供一个群体 年轻的少数民族妇女及其教师有机会利用 在程序员团队使用声音的背景下， 软件工程原理和产生高质量的科学 将由商业软件评估的教育软件 开发商可能的商业生产和分销。 在 此外，年轻的少数民族妇女将能够反映他们的 科学发展背景下的思维和学习方式 为其他学习者提供教育软件，而教师将增加 他们的专业经验范围，包括研究数据 学术期刊文章的收集和报告。

This project is designed to interest young minority women in future careers in science by providing them with an enrichment of skills, incentives, and role models upon which to base their career choices. Twenty-four female high school students in grades 9 or 10 and 6 high school science teachers will be selected to participate in a 10 day summer training program to prepare them to work on software teams composed of 4 students and one teacher advisor. The teams will produce high quality science education software during the school year following the summer session. The 6 team will be chosen from the Washington, DC area. The significance of this model lies in its ability to provide a group of young minority women and their teachers the opportunity to use leading edge technology in the context of programmer teams using sound software engineering principles and to produce high quality science education software that will be evaluated by commercial software developers for possible commercial production and distribution. In addition, young minority women will be able to reflect upon their thinking and learning styles in the context of developing science education software for other learners while teachers will increase their range of professional experiences to include research data collection and reporting for a scholarly journal article.