DEM: Girls Under the Hood

《引擎盖下的女孩》是一个示范项目，旨在鼓励纽约州麦迪逊县的十几岁女孩在科学、数学、工程和技术(SMET)领域取得优异成绩。该项目成功的核心是实践经验，它将向参与者展示SMET与日常生活的关系。利用汽车作为研究性科学学习的工具，24名14-17岁的女孩将探索内燃科学、燃油经济性数学、动力总成工程、计算机诊断设备技术以及所有这些领域的整合等主题。除了探索和学习汽车各种系统背后的许多科学原理，参与者还将获得他们可以与家人分享的实践技能。在为期七天的住宿夏令营中，参与者将体验两个相距仅五英里的不同大学校园环境：位于纽约汉密尔顿的高露洁大学，一所全国排名的文科院校；以及美国最具连通性的两年制学校，纽约州立大学农业与技术学院，位于纽约莫里斯维尔。上午的会议将在纽约州立大学莫里斯维尔校区的新汽车技术大楼举行，参与者将在那里亲身探索汽车。吃饭、住宿以及下午和晚上的大部分时间都将在高露洁大学进行，在那里，女孩们将进一步探索汽车操作背后的基本科学原理，以及如何将这些原理转移到其他各种应用中。《兜帽下的女孩》将利用女性的自然好奇心，在她们生命中的关键时刻专注于获得驾照，在一个没有威胁的(合作的，受欢迎的，以女性为主的)环境中。通过接触女性模特儿(教师、本科助教和成功的行业从业者)，以及征求家长、学校、行业和政府的支持，该项目将抓住机会，将课程内容与SMET职业联系起来，并挑战学生关于适合性别的职业的想法。女孩对自己理解汽车科学和技术能力的信心将延续到她们在SMET的其他领域取得成功的信心，她们将看到SMET课程的应用将鼓励她们在这些领域学习更多课程。该项目的智力好处是，它将作为应用情景科学教育的教育模式，并利用农村公立高中、公立和私立大学、社区、行业和政府的独特组合，更好地了解SMET教育中性别平等的学习机会。该项目的积极影响包括：参与者对SMET的兴趣发生积极变化，对他们的数学和科学能力的信心，选修高水平的数学和科学课程。一个额外的好处是在四年制和两年制大学之间建立教育合作。

Girls Under the Hood is a demonstration project designed to encourage teenage girls in ruralMadison County, New York, to achieve excellence in Science, Mathematics, Engineering andTechnology (SMET) fields. Central to the success of this project is the hands-on experiencethat will demonstrate the relationship of SMET to the participants everyday lives. Using theautomobile as a vehicle for inquiry-based scientific learning, 24 girls ages 14-17 willexplore topics such as the science of internal combustion, the mathematics of fuel economy,the engineering of the power train, the technology of computerized diagnostic equipment, andthe integration of all these fields. In addition to exploring and learning many scientificprinciples behind the various systems of the automobile, participants will acquire practicalskills that they can share with their families.During a seven-day residential summer camp, participants will experience two differentcollege campus settings a mere five miles apart: Colgate University, in Hamilton, New York,a nationally-ranked liberal arts institution; and in America's Most-Wired; two-year school, theState University of New York College of Agriculture and Technology, in Morrisville, NewYork. Morning sessions will be held in the new automotive technology building at the SUNYMorrisville campus, where participants will engage in hands-on exploration of theautomobile. Meals, lodging, and most of the afternoon and evening sessions will take place atColgate University, where the girls will further explore the basic scientific principles behindthe operation of automobiles and how those same principles can be transferred to a variety ofother applications.Girls Under the Hood will capitalize on the natural curiosity of females in a non-threatening(cooperative, welcoming, and predominantly female) environment at a critical time in theirlives when they are focused on getting their driver's license. Through exposure to female rolemodels (teachers, undergraduate teaching assistants and successful industry practitioners) andsolicitation of parent, school, industry and government support, this project will seizeopportunities to relate course content to SMET careers, and to challenge students' ideas aboutgender appropriate careers. The confidence that girls gain in their ability to understand thescience and technology of automobiles will carry over into confidence that they can succeedin other areas of SMET, and the applications they will see of SMET courses will encouragethem to take more courses in those areas.The intellectual benefit of this project is that it will serve as an educational model for theapplication of contextualized science education, as well as provide a better understanding ofgender-fair learning opportunities in SMET education utilizing a unique combination of ruralpublic high schools, public and private universities, community, industry, and government.Broader impacts of the project include positive changes in participants' interest in SMET,confidence in their ability to do math and science, and election of upper level math andscience courses. An added benefit will be the establishment of an educational collaborationbetween a four year and a two year college.