Program for Gender Equity in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (PGE): Girls Online: GO Team!

在美国国家科学基金会的资助下，芝加哥科学院自然博物馆与El Valor和James Ward学校合作，将创建Girls Online: GO Team！这是一个创新的课后科学技术项目，目标是生活在芝加哥服务不足地区的11至13岁的女孩。这个试点项目将在三年的时间里为大约450名女孩提供引人入胜的科学活动和实际应用，以教授动手科学和技术。每学期，45到90名女生将加入GO团队！在他们自己社区的地点。在这个课外项目中表现出色的女孩中，每学期将选出六名，与学院的工作人员一起回到一个新的参与女孩小组进行团队教学。随着女孩能力和技能的提高，她们可以参加更高级的GO团队！下个学期。参加的女孩将参加由学院的教育工作者和科学家讲授的每周实验课程，与家人一起参加开课庆祝活动和毕业典礼，在与博物馆工作人员和外部专业人士的工作影子日期间了解科技职业，并了解科学技术如何影响她们的日常生活。成功的女性导师将发挥教师和榜样的作用，帮助女孩建立科学知识、职业选择和自尊。

Through funding provided by the National Science Foundation, the Nature Museum of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with El Valor and James Ward School will create Girls Online: GO Team! , an innovative after-school science and technology program that targets girls between the ages of eleven and thirteen living in underserved areas of Chicago. This pilot program will offer engaging science activitiesand real-world applications to teachhands-on science and technology to approximately450 girls over a three-year period. Each semester, between forty-five and ninety girls will join the GO Team! at locations in their own neighborhoods. Of the girls who excel in this after-school program, six will be selected every semester to return and team teach with Academy staff to a new group of participating girls. As the girls grow in competency and skills, they can attend a more advanced GO Team! the following semester. The participating girls will attend weekly lab sessions taught by educators and scientists from the Academy, have fun with their families at a Kick -Off celebration and a Graduation Ceremony, learn about science and technology careers during a job shadow day with museum staff and outside professionals, andlearn how science and technology impact their everyday lives. Successful women mentors will function as teachers and role models to help build the girls' science knowledge, career choices, and self-esteem.