MPWG: Engineering Summer Camp for Middle School Girls

HRD-9631386 Worcester Polytech Inst. Nicoletti，Denise “中学女生工程夏令营” 拟议努力的目标是为七年级的女孩创建一个住宅夏令营，这将产生对工程和技术的兴趣和兴奋，以及它可以用来帮助个人，组织和社会的方式。 该夏令营将满足马萨诸塞州中部对干预方案的需求，该方案将在足够早的年龄接触女孩，使她们在数学和科学领域建立自尊和自信，并认识到在高中学习四年数学的重要性。 夏令营体验的中心和独特之处将是一个社区服务设计项目，在该项目中，学生团队使用团队合作和工程设计过程为伍斯特社区的“客户”解决问题。 其他计划活动将包括动手体验研讨会和实地考察。 该营地的行政结构将旨在使女孩接触到从女高中生到工程学院和执业工程师等“管道”沿着的各种女性榜样。 将采用若干战略，以确保营地经验的长期影响，并扩大营地的影响范围。 后续活动将在学年期间计划，并在可能的情况下，参与者将被引导到高中生的数学和科学干预计划。 与家长的接触将是干预计划的一个重要方面，中学数学和科学教师将成为营地行政人员的一部分，与女孩们一起沿着学习工程和职业机会。 该项目的一个独特和潜在的强大方面是，将使用一组具有类似背景但没有经历过干预方案的女孩对营地进行总结性评估。 因此，将相对于其他变量的影响来衡量干预方案对女孩对技术的兴趣及其在初中和高中剩余时间的进步和教育规划的影响。 ***

HRD-9631386 Worcester Polytech Inst. Nicoletti, Denise "Engineering Summer Camp for Middle School Girls" The goal of the proposed effort is to create a residential summer camp for seventh grade girls that will generate interest and excitement about engineering and technology and the ways it can be used to help individuals, organizations, and society. This camp will address a need for an intervention program in Central Massachusetts that will reach girls at an early enough age such that they develop self-esteem and self-confidence in the areas of math and science and realize the importance of taking four full years of mathematics in high school. The central and unique feature of the camp experience will be a community service design project in which teams of students solve a problem for a "customer" in the Worcester community using teamwork and an engineering design process. Other program activities will include hands-on experiential workshops and field trips. The administrative structure of the camp will be designed to expose girls to a broad spectrum of female role models along the "pipeline," from female high school students to engineering faculty and practicing engineers. Several strategies will be used to ensure long-term effects of the camp experience, as well as to magnify the camp's sphere of influence. Follow-up activities will be planned during the school year, and wherever possible, participants will be funneled into math and science intervention programs for high school students. Outreach to parents will be an important aspect of the intervention program, and middle school math and science teachers will be part of the camp's administrative staff, learning about engineering and career opportunities along with the girls. A unique and potentially powerful aspect of this project is that summative evaluation of the camp will be conducted using a control group of girls with similar backgrounds who did not experience the intervention program. T hus, the effect of the intervention program on girls' interest in technology and their progress and educational planning for the remainder of middle school and high school will be measured relative to the effects of other variables. ***