GSE/EXT: Girls RISE (Raising Interest in Science and Engineering) Museum Network

智力优势：基于近二十年来迈阿密科学博物馆为低收入西班牙裔和非裔美国女孩提供的博物馆规划，该推广服务项目采用培训培训师的方法，建立一个以博物馆为基础的推广代理网络，致力于帮助非正式的科学教育者吸引兴趣并支持目前在STEM研究中代表性不足的6-12年级少数族裔女孩的坚持。该合作项目由迈阿密科学博物馆牵头，汇集了来自非正式科学、性别研究和工程界的一批经验丰富的机构。除了博物馆之外，专家项目小组还由来自科学技术中心协会（ASTC）和东南工程少数民族协会（SECME Inc.）的主要人员组成，他们是少数民族工程专业组织参与的渠道。由STEM性别研究人员组成的咨询/研究小组，其工作与项目调查员的工作相辅相成，与专家项目团队密切合作，准备来自十个地理上分散的博物馆的推广代理人，他们反过来为全国科学丰富的机构中的非正式科学教育者的从业者社区提供一系列培训和同伴指导服务。参与的博物馆包括：康涅狄格科学中心（哈特福德，CT），纽约科学馆（纽约，NY），马里兰科学中心（巴尔的摩，MD），迈阿密科学博物馆（迈阿密，FL）， COSI（哥伦布，OH），圣路易斯科学中心（圣路易斯，MO），路易斯维尔科学中心（路易斯维尔，KY）， Sci-Port（什里夫波特，LA）， explorora（阿尔伯克基，NM）和加州科学院（旧金山，CA）。该项目的具体目标是：-利用国家科学中心和博物馆网络，提高对STEM中代表性不足的女孩的认识并扩大她们的机会。-发展各组织之间的联系，共同目的是增加少数族裔女性工程师的储备。-通过统一的培训项目，促进性别和多样性研究转化为实践。-提供持续的服务、获取项目材料和工具，以扩大科学中心和博物馆从业人员为女孩提供相关和有吸引力的项目的能力。“女孩崛起网络”的变革项目密切关注于提高科学中心和博物馆的能力，以吸引那些在工程科学领域代表性不足的女孩。它包括三个主要过程：1。从性别、种族和民族的角度评估组织氛围。识别和建立与招募、服务和留住工程领域女生相关的社区资源。优化非正式的科学学习环境，让少数族裔女孩参与大学前的工程竞赛和相关编程。更广泛的影响：通过女孩崛起博物馆网络提供的扩展服务使博物馆从业者能够接触到更多样化的人群，可能影响数百名女孩；并为减少对少数族裔女孩的障碍做出更广泛的贡献？参与STEM活动、课程和专业。此外，参与该项目的非正式科学教育者受益于对文化差异的认识和知识的提高，从而在非正式科学学习社区中形成了一个文化上有能力的教育领导者网络。该项目利用专家项目小组的资源，为吸引女孩，特别是西班牙裔和非裔美国女孩参与工程提供一个高质量资源的中央资源库。

Intellectual Merit: Based on nearly two decades of museum programming for low-income Hispanic and African American girls at the Miami Science Museum, this extension service project employs a train-the-trainers approach to build a network of museum-based Extension Agents dedicated to helping informal science educators attract the interest and support the persistence of minority girls, grades 6-12, currently underrepresented in STEM studies. Led by the Miami Science Museum, the collaboration brings together an experienced group of institutions with representation from the informal science, gender research, and engineering communities.In addition to the Museum, the Expert Project Team consists of key staff from the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC), and SECME Inc. (formerly the Southeastern Consortium of Minorities in Engineering), who serve as the conduit for the participation of minority engineering professional organizations. An advisory/research panel of researchers in gender in STEM, whose work complements those of the project investigators, works closely with the Expert Project Team to prepare Extension Agents from ten geographically dispersed museums, who in turn provide a range of training and peer mentoring services to the practitioner community of informal science educators in science-rich institutions nationwide. Participating museums include: Connecticut Science Center (Hartford, CT), New York Hall of Science (New York, NY), Maryland Science Center (Baltimore, MD), Miami Science Museum (Miami, FL), COSI (Columbus, OH), St. Louis Science Center (St. Louis, MO), Louisville Science Center (Louisville, KY), Sci-Port (Shreveport, LA), Explora (Albuquerque, NM), and California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco, CA).Specific objectives of the project are to:- Utilize the national network of science centers and museums to raise awareness and broaden access for girls underrepresented in STEM.- Develop linkages among organizations with the common purpose of increasing the pipeline of minority female engineers.- Facilitate the translation of gender and diversity research into practice through a unified training program.- Provide ongoing services, access to program materials, and tools to broaden the ability of science centers and museum practitioners to provide relevant and engaging programming for girls.The Girls Rise Network's program of change is tightly focused on increasing the capacity of science centers and museums to interest girls from underrepresented populations in the engineering sciences. It consists of three major processes:1. Assessing organizational climate with respect to gender, race and ethnicity.2. Identifying and building community resources related to recruiting, serving and retaining girls in the engineering pipeline.3. Optimizing the informal science learning environment to engage minority girls in engineering precollege competitions and related programming.Broader Impacts: The extension services provided through the Girls RISE Museum Network enable museum practitioners to reach a more diverse population, potentially impacting hundreds of girls; and contribute to broader efforts to reduce barriers to minority girls? participation in STEM activities, courses, and majors. In addition, the informal science educators participating in the project benefit from increased awareness and knowledge of cultural differences, resulting in a network of culturally competent educational leaders within the informal science learning community. The project draws from Expert Project Team resources to provide a central repository of high-quality resources for engaging girls, particularly Hispanic and African American girls, in engineering.