RISE (Raising Interest in Science & Engineering): A Collaborative Effort Targeting Middle School Girls

HRD-9813891朱迪布朗迈阿密科学博物馆，与迈阿密戴德县公立学校城市系统倡议（USI）和SECME合作。Inc.（原东南少数族裔工程师联合会）将开展实施和发展项目，利用现有网络和资源，确保大规模扩大“提高女孩对科学和工程的兴趣”项目。 女孩崛起是一个由博物馆设计的NSF PWG模型项目，旨在提高中学女孩的自尊和学习数学和科学的信心，从而减少女孩从初中到高中的高级数学和科学课程的流失。新的合作项目，名为SECME RISE，将扩大迈阿密戴德县公立学校的女孩崛起模型，全国第四大学区，有三十四万五千名学生。SECME RISE将通过综合方案战略，包括职业探索研讨会、技术讲习班、工程设计工作室、同侪领导力培训、首席教师研究所、家长参与活动和通过当地公共图书馆网络获得技术，努力在迈阿密-戴德公立学校实现系统方法，提高女孩的入学率。（重点是有色人种女孩）改善科学、数学和技术教育，并接触与工程有关的职业。 将通过国家SECME公司广泛传播方案。教师暑期学院（15个州，100个学校系统），利用现有的科学、工程和数学网络，推广机会，印刷和电子媒体，SECME RISE网站，以及通过记录该方案对女孩在数学和科学方面的成就的影响，对该领域作出贡献。SECME RISE将寻求增加女孩参加传统上代表性不足的课程的机会，并通过以下方式实现永久性改变：1）通过科学博物馆、公立学校、 2）创造课外和非正式的科学学习机会， 3）通过提高教师对性别公平教育的益处的认识， 4）提高父母的认识，并争取父母支持女儿的SMT教育， 5）为社会经济地位和种族如何与性别相互作用的研究基础做出贡献， 6）记录非正式教学（课前和课后、周六和暑期课程）对保持女孩对数学和科学的兴趣和成绩的影响。

HRD-9813891Judy BrownThe Miami Museum of Science, in collaboration with Miami-Dade County Public Schools Urban Systemic Initiative (USI), and SECME. Inc. (formerly Southeaster Consortia for Minority Engineers) will carry out implementation and development project that will leverage existing networks and resources to ensure wide scale expansion of Girls RISE (Raising Interest in Science and Engineering). Girls RISE is an NSF PWG model project designed by the Museum to increase middle school girls' self-esteem and confidence in leering mathematics and science, thus reducing the attrition in advance level mathematics and science coursework that occurs as girls move from middle school to high school.The new collaborative project, entitled SECME RISE, will expand the Girls RISE model in Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the fourth largest school district in the country with 345,000= students. Through integrated program strategies including career exploration seminars, technology workshops, an engineering design studio, peer leadership training, a lead teacher institute, parent involvement activities and technology access through the local public library network, SECME RISE will work to achieve a systemic approach in Miami-Dade Public schools that will enhance the access of girls (with an emphasis on girls of color) to improved science, mathematics and technology education and exposure to engineering-related careers. Broad program dissemination will be achieved through the national SECME, Inc. Teacher Summer institute (15 states, 100 school systems), utilization of existing science, engineering and mathematics networks, outreach opportunities, print and electronic media, and the SECME RISE web site, as well as through contributions to the field through documentation of the program's impact on girls' achievements in mathematics and science.Through this collaboration, SECME RISE will seek to increase the access of girls to those courses in which they have been traditionally underrepresented as well at to effect permanent change by: 1) Expanding the SMT infrastructure trough a new partnership between science museums, public schools, universities and the private sector;2) Creating extracurricular and informal science learning opportunities that provide new vehicles for maintaining girl's interest in science and mathematics through the transitional years (middle to high)3) Effecting classroom pedagogy by increasing teacher awareness of the benefits of gender-fair education for both males and females;4) Increasing parental awareness and eliciting parental support for their daughter' SMT education and related career aspirations;5) Contributing to the research base on how socio-economic status and ethnicity interact with gender to influence mathematics and science learning; and6) Documenting the impact of informal instruction (before and after school, Saturday and summer programming) on maintaining girl's interest and achievement in mathematics and science.