BPC-DP: BTU: "Build it, Trust it, Use It" Project

北方肯塔基大学提出了建立它-信任它-使用它（“BTU”）示范项目，将在两年的时间内，为北方肯塔基州/西南俄亥俄州地区的西班牙裔青少年提供以家庭为中心的计算机信息技术强化实践培训，目的是指导他们对计算机和信息科学的长期教育和职业决策。来自计算机信息技术、计算机科学、社会工作和西班牙语等专业的北方肯塔基州大学的教师和学生将组队担任为期12周的研讨会的领导者。这些双语研讨会将在当地的西班牙裔社区中心和大学校园提供，这些研讨会将让中学生和他们的父母参加非正式但结构化的计算机硬件和软件介绍。在讲习班开始的几周里，家庭将共同努力，用现成的组件建造自己的个人电脑;个人电脑由该方案免费提供。随后的几周将涉及问题的调查，如维护和故障排除，互联网使用，计算机安全，家长控制，面向西班牙裔的网络资源，并在计算职业。该计划将聘请来自当地公司的西班牙裔专业人士担任该计划的导师。计划团队将在每次研讨会之前和之后进行并分析参与者对IT的态度调查。预计参加计划的学生将可增加他们对资讯科技的技术知识和信心，以及提高他们继续进修与电脑有关学科的兴趣。

The University of Northern Kentucky proposes the Build it - Trust It - Use It ("BTU") demonstration project will, over a two year period, provide Hispanic teens in the Northern Kentucky / Southwest Ohio region with intensive hands-on family-centered training in computer information technology, with the aim of directing their long-term educational and career decisions toward the computer and information sciences. Faculty and students at Northern Kentucky University, drawn from majors such as Computer Information Technology, Computer Science, Social Work, and Spanish, will team up to serve as leaders of twelve-week workshops. Offered after hours and on weekends at a local Hispanic community center and on the university campus, these bilingual workshops will involve middle school students and their parents in informal but structured introductions to computer hardware and software. During the opening weeks of the workshop, families will work together to build their own personal computer from off-the-shelf components; individual computers provided free of charge by the program. Subsequent weeks will involve surveys of issues such as maintenance and troubleshooting, Internet usage, computer security, parental control, Hispanic-oriented web resources, and careers in computing. The program will engage Hispanic professionals from local corporations to serve as mentors in the program. Program teams will conduct and analyze surveys of participant attitudes toward IT before and after each workshop. It is expected that participating students will increase their technical knowledge and confidence in IT, as well as their interest in pursuing further education in the academic disciplines related to computing.