University Outreach Center's Summer Science Camps

大学外展中心的夏季科学营

• 批准号: 9255110
• 负责人: James Hill
• 金额: $ 44.42万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-09-15 至 1996-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9255110&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: University; Outreach; Center; Summer; Science

The University of Texas at Austin conducts three series of Summer Science Camps annually for 150 African-American and Hispanic youths entering the eighth and ninth grades. Designed to build a coherent and solid foundation among minority middle schoolers for an interest in and understanding of science and mathematics, these programs are presented in the context of existing Outreach Centers established by the University in major concentrations of target minorities in Austin, Dallas, and the Rio Grande Valley. The SSC environment and activities are designed to bring the participant into immediate and personal contact with the people and "things" of science, mathematics and technology by having them participate in a wide range of research processes and interacting with active mathematicians, engineers and scientists. The focus of each of the SSC's curricula is embodied in a major yearly theme for each site that is derived from the particular nature of local student populations and the available resources of that area (e.g. basic foundations, robotics and space technology, ecology/plant/animal study, and agribusiness and genetic engineering, etc.). SSC student participants will interact with teachers trained in teacher enhancement programs, thus matching the middle schoolers with trained science and mathematics teachers that they will likely encounter in upper middle and high school. The ultimate designed outcome of this interaction is the creation of "student-teacher allies" in the academic-year classroom who are bound together by both shared interest and common experience in the science and mathematics learning process.

得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校每年为150名进入八年级和九年级的非裔美国人和西班牙裔青少年举办三系列暑期科学夏令营。这些计划的目的是在少数族裔中学生中建立一个连贯和坚实的基础，使他们对科学和数学感兴趣和理解，这些计划是在大学在奥斯汀、达拉斯和格兰德河谷的主要目标少数群体集中建立的现有外联中心的背景下提出的。SSC环境和活动旨在通过让参与者参与广泛的研究过程并与活跃的数学家、工程师和科学家互动，使他们与科学、数学和技术的人和“物”直接和个人接触。根据当地学生群体的特殊性质和该领域的现有资源(例如基础基础、机器人和空间技术、生态学/植物/动物研究、农业综合企业和基因工程等)，每一项南南合作课程的重点都体现在每个地点的年度主要主题中。SSC学生参与者将与接受过教师提升计划培训的教师进行互动，从而将中学生与他们在高中可能遇到的训练有素的科学和数学教师配对。这种互动的最终设计结果是在学年的课堂上创造了“学生-教师联盟”，他们因科学和数学学习过程中的共同兴趣和共同经验而联系在一起。