MPWG: Awareness, Skills, and Mentoring Add Up to Success for Girls in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Careers

9553486珀勒姆鲍尔州立大学面向11年级和12年级高中女生的项目在科学、工程和数学领域具有双重重点的职业意识和技能发展(扫描电子显微镜)。它的主要目标是：提高高中女生对SEM职业的认识，向她们介绍工作中的SEM榜样，让她们与SEM导师就研究问题进行合作，并对她们的职业选择产生积极影响。通过研讨会、工业现场访问和小组讨论，女孩们将了解SEM的职业和就业机会--她们需要什么，以及她们是如何实现的。该项目为所有女孩提供了利用统计和技术来支持她们今后的研究工作的机会。与大学的一位扫描电子显微镜导师合作，每个女孩都将在大学实验室环境中获得实践研究经验。随后，每个女孩将在现场资源教师和大学导师的支持下，通过互联网在自己的学校独立解决相关研究问题。此外，这些女孩还将向她们的同龄人传播SEM职业信息。学员在离开住宿项目时，应准备好有关扫描电子显微镜职业生涯的知识、支持解决问题的技术技能以及使用科学发现方法的经验。他们将探索扫描电子显微镜的职业生涯，并与这些领域的专业人士进行互动。他们应该已经掌握了使用电子表格、软件包、图形计算器、文字处理和互联网通信的技能。他们还将参与由结构分析导师和高中辅导教师支持的小组和独立研究项目。此外，他们应该培养自信和自尊来选择合适的职业--并成功地走上职业道路。***

9553486 Perham The Ball State University project for high school girls in grades eleven and twelve has a dual focus of career awareness and skill development in the areas of science, engineering, and mathematics (SEM). Its major goals are: to increase the awareness of high school girls about careers in SEM, to introduce them to SEM role models on the job, to have them collaborate on a research problem with a SEM mentor, and to positively impact their choice of a career. Through seminars, industrial site visits, and panel discussions, the girls are to learn about SEM careers and job opportunities--what they require and how they are achieved. This project provides opportunities for all the girls to acquire skill in using statistics and technology to support their future research efforts. In collaboration with a SEM mentor at the University, each girls will gain hands-on research experience in a university laboratory setting. Afterward, each girl will independently solve a related research problem at her home school with the support of an on-site resource teacher and the University mentor, via Internet. In addition, the girls will disseminate SEM career information to their peers. Participants should leave the residential program prepared with a knowledge of SEM careers, technological skills that will support problem solving, and experience in using the scientific method of discovery. They will have explored SEM careers and interacted with professionals in these fields. They should have acquired skill in using spreadsheets, software packages, graphing calculators, word-processing, and Internet communications. They also will have engaged in group and independent research projects supported by SEM mentors and high school resource teachers. In addition, they should have developed the confidence and self-esteem to choose an appropriate career--and successfully embark upon it. ***