Encouraging Alaska Native Participation in Computing

阿拉斯加大学，费尔班克斯（UAF）提出了一个项目，以鼓励阿拉斯加土著学生参与计算。该提案基于有据可查的证据，即阿拉斯加原住民的学习方式和教育目标与传统的“西方”计算机学生不同，目前的课程不能有效地满足他们的需求。PI将创建一个支持性的生态系统-基于扩展现有的关系-通过该系统，学生，顾问，教师，工业合作伙伴，导师，家庭和支持他们的组织结构共同努力，以实现增加阿拉斯加原住民参与计算的目标。该方法是建立在四个成功的关键：发展学生的学科知识，帮助学生发展自己的身份方面的计算领域，建立过程中，学生移动通过他们的计算教育的制度环境，并有助于通过该学生可以返回到自己的家乡社区和分享他们的知识。 活动将包括需求评估，推广，修改课程交付机制，教师培训，增加课程设置，并增加过渡计划。

The University of Alaska, Fairbanks (UAF) proposes a project to encourage Alaska Native student participation in computing. The proposal builds on well-documented evidence that the learning styles and educational goals of Alaska Natives differ from traditional "western" computing students, and that current programs do not effectively meet their needs. The PIs will create a supportive ecosystem - based on extending existing relationships - through which students, advisers, faculty, industrial partners, mentors, families, and the organization structures that support them work together towards the goal of increasing the participation of Alaska Natives in computing. The approach is founded upon four keys to success: developing the students' disciplinary knowledge, helping student develop their identity with respect to the field of computing, establishing processes by which the students move through the institutional contexts of their computing education, and contributing through which the students can return to their home communities and share their knowledge. Activities will include needs assessment, outreach, modifications to course delivery mechanisms, faculty training, increased course offerings, and augmentation of transition programs.