Program for Gender Equity in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (PGE): Girls for Planet Earth (DEM)

野生动物保护协会/布朗克斯动物园寻求国家科学基金会的资金，以开发一个令人兴奋的新的三年计划，旨在吸引女孩和年轻妇女在科学。与美国女童子军、全国4-H理事会、美国男孩和女孩俱乐部、女孩公司、和儿童援助协会，该计划将在赠款期间覆盖美国各地的数千名女孩，之后还有数千名女孩。WCS是唯一有资格运行这个程序，在其工作人员中有许多女性科学专业人士谁是在各自领域的国家和国际领导人，并在最近的过去进行了一些开创性的年轻妇女方案。这个为期36个月的项目将包括：-年度地球峰会，将向80名14 - 17岁的女孩介绍环境科学，包括美国各地区的关键环境问题，以及环境科学领域的职业和女性榜样。(The女孩们将以两三人一组的方式参加峰会。- 一系列服务学习项目，通过这些项目，将大力鼓励地球问题首脑会议的与会者将他们学到的知识应用于一个以社区为基础的项目，该项目将知识、服务和反思结合起来。- 技术援助方案，通过该方案，将向参与者提供持续援助，使他们能够更有效地规划和实施其服务-学习项目;以及-"虚拟俱乐部之家"，通过该俱乐部，女孩们将能够相互交流，并与世界基督教大会工作人员就方案和环境问题进行交流。会所还将展示地球首脑会议与会者将开展的项目，并解释其他年轻人如何开展类似的社区外联和研究项目。拟议的方案是增加女孩和年轻妇女参与科学的独特手段。它将利用年轻人对动物、自然和参观非正式科学中心（如布朗克斯动物园）的热情，激发女孩和年轻妇女对科学学习的兴趣。该计划还将寻求通过关注生态学和环境科学来增加参与，这些学科与学生直接相关。随着她们的世界日益受到人类活动的改变，环境所发生的变化对今天的女孩和年轻妇女的日常生活具有巨大的重要性，而且在未来将变得更加重要。通过关注直接相关的内容，我们相信该计划将大大提高参与者的参与度。该计划将建立在一个非常成功的野生动物科学职业计划，野生动物保护协会一直在进行在过去三年中与大纽约女童子军理事会。这个非常受欢迎的方案涉及315名八年级和九年级的女童子军，并培训了其中许多人，向纽约市数千名年轻的女童子军介绍科学方面的职业机会。这项新计划将使WCS能够接触到美国各地的女孩，让女孩参与有益于当地社区的科学项目，并将野生动物科学职业方案的重点从科学职业扩大到更广泛地关注环境科学和当地环境问题。

The Wildlife Conservation Society/Bronx Zoo seeks NSF funding to develop an exciting new three-year program designed to engage girls and young women in science. Operated with the Girl Scouts of the USA, the National 4-H Council, the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Girls Inc., and the Children's Aid Society, the program will reach thousands of girls across the U.S. over the grant period and thousands more thereafter. The WCS is uniquely qualified to run this program, having on its staff many women science professionals who are national and international leaders in their fields, and having conducted a number of pioneering programs for young women in the recent past. The 36-month program will consist of: - An Annual Earth Summit that will introduce 80 girls ages 14-17 to environmental science, including key environmental issues in regions across the U.S., as well as to careers and women role models in environmental science. (The girls will attend the Summit in teams of two or three.) -A series of service-learning projects through which the Earth Summit participants will be strongly encouraged to apply what they have learned in a community-based project that combines knowledge, service and reflection. -A program of technical assistance, through which the participants will be provided with ongoing assistance that will enable them to more effectively plan and implement their service- learning projects; and - A ``Virtual Club House,'' through which the girls will be able to communicate with each other and WCS staff about the program and environmental issues. The clubhouse will also showcase projects that the Earth Summit participants will conduct and explain how other young people might undertake similar community outreach and research projects. The proposed program represents a unique means of increasing the participation of girls and young women in science. It will capitalize on the enthusiasm young people have for animals, nature, and for visiting informal science centers, such as the Bronx Zoo, to excite girls and young women about science learning. The program will also seek to increase involvement through a focus on ecology and environmental science, subjects that are of immediate relevance to students. With their world being increasingly altered by human activity, what happens to the environment is of tremendous importance to the daily lives of girls and young women today and will become even more so in the future. By focusing on content that is immediately relevant, we believe the program will significantly increase participant involvement. The program will build on a hugely successful Wildlife Science Careers Program that the Wildlife Conservation Society has been undertaking over the past three years in conjunction with the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York. This extremely popular program has involved 315 eighth- and ninth-grade Girl Scouts and trained many of them to introduce thousands of younger Girl Scouts in New York City to career opportunities in science. The new program will allow the WCS to reach girls across the U.S., to involve girls in science projects that will be of benefit to local communities, and to broaden the emphasis of the Wildlife Science Careers Program from science careers to a more general focus on environmental science and local environmental issues.