Northwest Girls Collaborative Project

在太平洋西北地区，目前有许多组织提供有价值但不协调的活动和支持服务，以激励和支持女孩对SMET职业的兴趣。仅华盛顿州就有20个这样的组织。这些团体的活动是不协调的，事实上，有些团体在获得女孩和资源，特别是从企业界获得资源方面似乎没有竞争能力。这个资金来源，面对最近的裁员，不太倾向于支持这些项目。在这种情况下，协调现有和发展中的活动以有效利用资源变得越来越重要。该项目包括三个主要活动：传播和推广：与西北女童联盟合作，记录和促进华盛顿州和俄勒冈州中小企业女童服务项目之间的协调与合作，并建立一个将这些组织联系起来的持续沟通系统。创建项目评估大纲：与西北地区教育实验室合作，创建反映最佳实践模型的项目大纲和基于大纲的项目评估工具。小额资助：在华盛顿州和俄勒冈州MESA的支持下，我们将向至少22个以女孩为重点的STEM项目提供小额资助，以支持与解决服务差距和重叠相关的合作、评估活动和项目。该项目是在冠军委员会的指导下进行的，该委员会由个人组成，如华盛顿大学工程学院院长，州数学和科学教师协会的现任主席，以及华盛顿州和俄勒冈州教育部门的代表。

Throughout the Pacific Northwest there currently exist numerous organizations providingvaluable but uncoordinated activities and support services related to motivating and supportinggirls interest in SMET careers. Twenty such organizations in Washington State alone.The activities of these groups are not coordinated and in fact, some groups appear to be incompetition for access to girls and to resources, particularly for resources from the corporatecommunity. This funding source, in the face of recent layoffs, is less inclined to support suchprograms. Under these circumstances it becomes increasingly important to coordinate existingand evolving activities to effectively utilize resources.This project includes three primary activities:Dissemination and Outreach: In partnership with the Northwest Girls Coalition,document and promote coordination and collaboration among girl serving SMETprograms in Washington and Oregon and establish an on-going communication systemlinking these organizations.Creation of a Program Evaluation Rubric: In collaboration with the NorthwestRegional Educational Lab create a program rubric reflecting best practice models andprogram assessment tool based on the rubric.Mini-Grants: With the support of Washington and Oregon MESA, we will offer mini-grants to a minimum of twenty-two girl-serving STEM focused programs to supportcollaboration, assessment activities and projects related to addressing gaps and overlaps inservice.The project is under the guidance of a Champions Board made up of individuals such as Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Washington, current presidents of the state Math and Science teacher associations, and representatives from both the Washington and Oregon state education departments.