WGIDPO: Wildlife Science Careers Programs

野生动物保护协会(WCS)将开发一个令人兴奋的示范项目，旨在吸引女孩和年轻女性对科学感兴趣。该计划是与大纽约女童军理事会合作实施的，该计划将建立在一个非常成功的试点项目的基础上，在赠款期间惠及纽约市6000多名女孩，之后再惠及数千名女孩。野生动物科学职业计划将得到WCS专业工作人员的全力支持，其中包括环境教育者、动物馆长、动物饲养员、兽医、保护生物学家、野外科学家、野生动物营养师、展览设计师和其他人，其中许多是女性。参加活动的女童子军将与这些专业人士见面，观察他们的工作，让他们参与对话，参与实践项目，并亲身体验为濒危物种和自然栖息地的生存而工作所涉及的兴奋和奉献。这项为期三年的计划将由五个主要部分组成：(1)在布朗克斯动物园为315名女童子军(年龄12 5英尺14岁)举办的为期5天的野生动物科学职业讲习班，向他们介绍野生生命科学和保护生物学的职业生涯；(2)参加WCS的其他四个设施(野生动物保护水族馆以及中央公园、展望公园和皇后区的野生动物中心)的学员的实地体验，通过这些活动，女孩们将参与科学探索活动，并会见更多的科学榜样；(3)为童军学员举办为期两天的训练研讨会，为他们提供技能和材料，为年轻女童军部队举办职业和科学意识工作坊，使童军学员能够符合成为女童军计划助理所需的条件；。(4)为36名女童军领袖举办为期两天的领袖训练课程，使他们能够监督参与计划的青少年的进度，并在资助期结束后继续推行计划的主要部分；。以及(5)50名高级女童子军(14至17岁)的实习计划，他们作为学员成功完成培训讲习班，成为计划助手，这将使他们有机会在世界童子军的五个设施中与科学家和其他专业人员并肩工作。拟议的野生动物科学职业计划是提高女孩和年轻妇女参与科学水平的独特手段。利用非竞争性、单一性别的方法，该计划将利用儿童和年轻人对参观动物园等非正式科学中心的热情，吸引女孩和年轻女性对科学学习和职业的兴趣。非正式科学机构和女童子军理事会在促进妇女对科学的兴趣、了解和技能方面可以发挥重要作用，在拟议的项目中，世界女童军制定了一种令人兴奋的模式，有可能在全国范围内复制。

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) will develop an exciting model program designed to interest girls and young women in science. Operated in partnership with the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York, the program will build on a highly successful pilot project to reach over 6,000 girls throughout New York City over the grant period and thousands more thereafter. The Wildlife Science Careers Program will enjoy the full support of the WCS's professional staff, which includes environmental educators, animal curators, animal keepers, veterinarians, conservation biologists, field scientists, wildlife nutritionists, exhibit designers, and others, many of whom are women. Participating Girl Scouts will meet these professionals, observe them at work, engage them in dialogue, take part in hands-on projects, and experience first-hand the excitement and dedication involved in working for the survival of endangered species and natural habitats. The three-year program will consist of five main components: (1) Five-day Wildlife Science Career Workshops at the Bronx Zoo for 315 Cadette Girl Scouts (ages 12 5o 14) that will introduce them to careers in the wildlife sciences and conservation biology; (2) Field experience for the participating Cadettes at the WCS's four other facilities (The Aquarium for Wildlife Conservation and the Wildlife Centers of Central Park, Prospect Park and Queens), through which the girls will engage in science exploration activities and meet additional role models in science; (3) Two-day training seminars for the Cadettes that will provide them with the skills and materials to conduct career and science awareness workshops for troops of younger Girl Scouts, enabling the Cadettes to meet the requirements necessary to become Girl Scout Program Aides; (4) Two-day leadership training courses for 36 Girl Scout Leaders that will enable them to oversee the progress of the participating Cadettes and to continue key program components after the co nclusion of the grant period; and (5) An internship program for fifty Senior Girl Scouts (ages 14 to 17), who successfully complete the training workshops as Cadettes to become Program Aides, that will give them the opportunity to work side-by-side with scientists and other professional staff in the WCS's five facilities. The proposed Wildlife Science Careers Program represents a unique means of increasing the participation level of girls and young women in science. Utilizing a non-competitive, single-sex approach, the program will capitalize on the enthusiasm children and young adults have for visiting informal science centers, such as zoos, to engage the interest of girls and young women in science learning and careers. Informal science institutions and Girl Scout Councils have an important role to play in advancing the interest, understanding and skills of women in science, and in the proposed project, the WCS has developed an exciting model that has the potential to be replicated nationwide.