Akamai Workforce Initiative

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。Akamai劳动力计划（AWI）是一个跨学科项目，由夏威夷大学天文研究所、自适应光学中心和夏威夷大学毛伊岛社区学院合作。该项目将通过以探究为基础的、公平的、与文化相关的、资源丰富的教学课程，为培养和留住电光学专业的多样化学生群体提供支持，该课程旨在满足毛伊岛和该州天文学、遥感和其他技术行业的劳动力需求。AWI将提高当前科学家和工程师在当代教育中的技能，并将利用他们新的教学技能将毛伊岛的学生推向技术劳动力。AWI将立即在毛伊岛建立一个创新的课程开发基础设施，在毛伊岛社区学院建立一个电光证书项目，并开展服务学习招聘和留用工作，同时为进一步的全州和四年制电光项目奠定基础。AWI将包括(1)一个新颖的课程，将文化、探究过程、技能和公平与现代光电内容结合起来，所有这些都是为了满足劳动力需求而选择的；(2)为夏威夷一代科学家和工程师提供探究式教学、课程设计和多样性考虑方面的独特培训；(3)通过战略性设计的地方性项目，支持公共和私营部门在天文学和遥感方面具有国家重要性的研究；(4)在内容、流程和所需伙伴关系的独特组合方面具有资格和经验的团队。最终，AWI将扩大代表性不足的群体在stem相关领域的参与，包括妇女、夏威夷原住民和其他太平洋岛民。它还将通过合作和整合教育、研究、工业和社区利益，加强夏威夷的研究和教育基础设施，从而使整个社会受益。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The Akamai Workforce Initiative (AWI) is an interdisciplinary project that partners the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, the Center for Adaptive Optics, and the University of Hawaii - Maui Community College. The AWI will support the training and retention of a diverse student population in electro-optics through an inquiry-based, equitable, culturally relevant, and resourcefully taught curriculum that is designed to meet workforce needs in astronomy, remote sensing, and other technology industries in Maui and the state. The AWI will improve current scientists' and engineers' skills in contemporary education, and will use their new teaching skills to advance Maui's students into the technology workforce. The AWI will immediately build an innovative curriculum-development infrastructure on Maui, an electro-optics certificate program at Maui Community College, and a service-learning recruitment and retainment effort, while also establishing the foundation for further statewide and four-year electro-optics programs. The AWI will include (1) a novel curriculum that will integrate culture, inquiry processes, skills, and equity together with modern electro-optics content, all chosen to meet workforce needs; (2) unique training in inquiry-based teaching, curriculum design, and diversity considerations for a generation of Hawaii's scientists and engineers; (3) support for public- and private-sector research of national importance in astronomy and remote sensing through a strategically designed, local program; (4) a team that is qualified and experienced in the unique mix of content, processes, and partnerships required. Ultimately the AWI will broaden the participation of underrepresented groups in STEM-related fields including women, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders. It will also benefit society as a whole by enhancing the infrastructure for research and education in Hawaii by partnering and integrating education, research, industry, and community interests.