GSE/DIS SciGirls - A DragonflyTV Dissemination Project

TPT/双城公共电视台，公共广播公司在圣保罗/明尼阿波利斯的附属电台，正在进行一个新的传播项目，蜻蜓电视科学女孩。使用视频和印刷资源的组合，并辅以实践培训，DragonflyTV SciGirls将为选定的PBS电视台及其当地合作伙伴提供实施PBS系统中尚不存在的倡议所需的技能，材料和财政资源：专门为女孩设计的科学鼓励计划。 DragonflyTV SciGirls传播项目的三个主要目标是：1。在9至12岁的女孩中培养对科学和科学探究过程的更大兴趣，特别注意接触有色人种女孩; 2.为全国各地社区的教育工作者提供电子和印刷媒体，以模拟所有女孩都能进行的真实科学探索，并培训他们有效使用这些材料，通过利用公共广播系统外联系统的现有力量，让广泛的社区合作伙伴参与进来，提高女孩科学鼓励计划的数量和质量。该项目将由一个由非正式和正式女童科学教育领域杰出领导人组成的咨询委员会指导。 这一传播举措的核心是DragonflyTV，这是一个每周半小时的节目，在PBS电视台播出，覆盖全国约90%的地区，每周吸引近100万观众。自成立以来，DragonflyTV一直是9-12岁女孩的独特展示。超过一半的蜻蜓电视“儿童科学家”是女孩，近200名女孩在我们的前三个赛季的特色。为了补充和扩展每周定期广播，蜻蜓电视还提供基于调查的外展资源，包括教育者指南、儿童科学期刊、趣味工具包、录像带和一个内容丰富的互动网站（www.dragonflytv.org）。 SciGirls将充分利用DragonflyTV的资源，通过一个经过验证的模式--PBS电视台强大的全国性外展专业人员网络--来传播这些资源。DragonflyTV的工作人员将选择和培训这些专业人员的骨干，反过来，他们将促进与他们的社区合作伙伴类似的培训课程。当地的合作伙伴可能包括学校、课后团体、图书馆或社区青年组织，如基督教女青年会、女童子军或男孩女孩俱乐部。最后，这些合作伙伴将利用独特的DragonflyTV资源来激励他们的节目，让他们所服务的女孩有动力和技能去探索自己的科学。 智力优势。 该项目利用一个大型国家计划，制定一个专门为女孩设计的小型科学鼓励计划。 该服务结构将包括8-12个当地社区项目提供商作为合作伙伴。更广泛的影响。 该节目将达到与DragronflyTV相同的庞大观众群，此外，还将吸引人们注意并展示一个针对女孩的节目，该节目可能会激励其他社区采取类似举措。

TPT/Twin Cities Public Television, the PBS affiliate station in St. Paul/Minneapolis, is conducting a novel dissemination project, DragonflyTV SciGirls. Using a combination of video and print resources, supported with hands-on training, DragonflyTV SciGirls will provide selected PBS stations and their local partners the skills, materials, and financial resources needed to implement an initiative that does not yet exist in the PBS system: a science encouragement program designed specifically for girls. The three primary goals of the DragonflyTV SciGirls dissemination project are: 1. to foster a greater interest in science and the process of scientific inquiry among girls ages 9 to 12, paying special attention to reaching girls of color; 2. to provide educators in communities across the nation with electronic and print media that model authentic explorations of science that all girls can do, with training to use these materials effectively, and 3. to increase both the quantity and quality of girls' science encouragement programs, by leveraging the established power of the PBS outreach system to engage a wide range of community partners. The project will be guided by an Advisory Board of distinguished leaders in informal and formal science education for girls. At the heart of this dissemination initiative is DragonflyTV, a half-hour weekly program broadcast on PBS stations covering approximately 90% of the nation, attracting nearly a million viewers per week. Since its inception, DragonflyTV has been a unique showcase for girls, ages 9-12. Over half of the DragonflyTV "kid scientists" are girls, with nearly 200 girls featured in our first three seasons. To complement and extend the regular weekly broadcasts, DragonflyTV also offers inquiry-based outreach resources including Educator's Guides, children's science journals, Fun Kits, videotapes, and a rich, interactive Web site (www.dragonflytv.org). SciGirls will capitalize on the full complement of DragonflyTV resources, disseminating them through a proven model -- the strong, national network of outreach professionals at PBS stations. DragonflyTV staff will select and train a cadre of these professionals who, in turn, will facilitate similar training sessions with their community partners. Local partners might include schools, after-school groups, libraries, or community youth organizations like the YWCA, Girl Scouts, or Boys and Girls Clubs. Finally, these partners will use the unique DragonflyTV resources to energize their programs, giving the girls they serve the motivation and skills to explore science on their own. Intellectual Merit. The project leverages a large national program to produce a smaller science encouragement program designed specifically for girls. The service structure will include 8-12 local community program providers as partners.Broader Impact. The program will reach the same huge audiences as DragronflyTV, and in addition draw attention to and demonstrate a program for girls that could inspire similar initiatives in other communities.