GSE/DIS POWERFUL SIGNALS: Transforming the Role of Women and Girls in Science and Engineering

WAMC/东北公共广播电台正在制作两个广播系列节目，将在WAMC的全国联合广播节目《51%》中播出，这两个节目是关于和影响女性的，以及《我们的最佳知识》。一个关于教育、教育政策、创新和研究的节目。第一个系列是9个声音丰富、专题长度、杂志风格的广播模块，涵盖全国各地的创新性别平等计划和项目，重点介绍提高女孩和年轻女性参与STEM教育和职业的成功方法和战略。第二个系列是三个多部分的“音频日记”广播故事，这些故事将允许选择STEM领域或职业的课程或目前正在此类领域工作的年轻女性讲述自己的故事。这两首歌也可以在互联网上收听（WAMC的STEM女性网站），并以光盘的形式在全国范围内分发给目标受众。该项目的智力价值在于，WAMC的广播节目将全国的焦点放在了特定的教学风格、课程设计、教学方法和研究上，这些研究为解决学习中与性别有关的差异的知识库做出了贡献，并促进了对学生的兴趣、表现和职业选择产生积极影响的教育经验；以及这些计划和项目如何对提高女孩和年轻女性参与STEM的国家努力产生可衡量的影响。作为一个“讲故事的人”，WAMC预计与该项目相关的以下更广泛的影响：*接触和教育全国的广播听众，让他们了解全国范围内为缩小STEM教育和职业中的性别差距所做的努力；*接触和教育女孩和年轻女性的目标受众（优先强调少数民族和残疾人群），他们将有机会了解STEM教育和职业是可能的，并且触手可及；*接触和教育目标受众，包括家长、教育工作者、学者、机构和组织领导人，为他们提供关于示范项目的故事，以及他们可以用来进一步努力提高女孩和年轻女性参与STEM的故事。

WAMC/Northeast Public Radio is producing two radio series to be broadcast throughout the US on WAMC's nationally syndicated radio programs 51%--about and affecting women, and The Best of Our Knowledge.a show about education, educational policy, innovation, and research. The first series is nine sound-rich, feature-length, magazine style radio modules covering innovative gender equity programs and projects throughout the nation, highlighting successful methods and strategies for increasing the participation of girls and young women in STEM education and careers. The second series is three multi-segment "audio-diary" radio stories which will allow individual young women who have chosen a course of study in a STEM field or career, or are currently working in such a field, to tell her own story. Both will also be available for listening on the Internet (WAMC's Women in STEM website) and distributed nationally to targeted audiences on compact disc. The intellectual merit of this project lies in WAMC's radio programming placing a national spotlight on specific teaching styles, curriculum designs, pedagogical approaches, and studies that have contributed to the knowledge base addressing gender-related differences in learning, and have promoted educational experiences that positively affect student interest, performance, and choice of careers; and how these programs and projects have made a measurable impact on the national effort to increase the participation of girls and young women in STEM. As a "storyteller," WAMC anticipates the following broader impacts associated with this project: * Reaching and educating a nationwide audience of radio listeners about the nationwide effort to close the gender gap in STEM education and careers; * Reaching and educating a targeted audience of girls and young women (with a priority emphasis on minority and disabled populations) who will have the opportunity to learn that STEM education and careers are possible and within reach; * Reaching and educating a targeted audience of parents, educators, academics, institutional and organizational leaders providing them with stories about model programs and stories they can use to further their efforts to increase the participation of girls and young women in STEM.