PGE/SEP: Science in the City

芝加哥科学院将与芝加哥女童子军合作，扩大城市科学，这是一个创新的科学、数学和技术项目，目标是居住在无家可归者收容所和芝加哥各地住房开发项目中的难以接触到的城市女孩。这个项目将提供吸引人的活动和现实世界的应用程序，在一年的时间里向120名9岁到14岁的女孩教授动手科学、数学和技术。为了与这些女孩感受到的身体和社会孤立作斗争，她们将每月被带到佩吉·诺特巴特自然博物馆，参加各种活动、计划和事件。这些女孩将参加工作坊，以获得难以获得的科学徽章，与家人一起参加“家庭科学日”和教育实地考察，在工作阴影日与博物馆工作人员一起了解科学职业，参加为期五天的夏令营，并了解科学如何影响他们的日常生活。成功的女科学家将充当教师和榜样，帮助女孩建立科学知识、职业选择和自尊。作为实物比赛，学院将为每个女孩提供一年的自然博物馆家庭会员资格，让她们继续探索和学习，超越这个项目的范围。

The Chicago Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with the Girl Scouts of Chicago, will expand Science in the City, an innovative science, math and technology program that targets hard-to-reach urban girls living in homeless shelters and housing developments throughout Chicago. This project will offer engaging activities and real-world applications to teach hands-on-science, math, and technology to 120 girls ages nine through fourteen, over a one-year period. In an effort to combat the physical and social isolation that these girls feel, they will be brought together monthly to the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum to participate in a variety of activities, programs, and events. These girls will attend workshops to obtain hard-to-get science badges, have fun with their families at "Science for Families Days" and educational field trips, learn about science careers during a job shadow day with museum staff, participate in a five-day summer camp, and learn how science affects their everyday lives. Successful women scientists will function as teachers and role models to help build the girls' science knowledge, career choices, and self-esteem. As an in-kind match, the Academy will provide each girl with a one-year Family Membership to the Nature Museum, so that they will continue to explore and learn beyond the scope of this program.