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

智力优势：基于近二十年来在迈阿密科学博物馆为低收入西班牙裔和非洲裔美国女孩进行的博物馆规划，该推广服务项目采用培训培训员的方法，建立一个基于博物馆的推广代理网络，致力于帮助非正规科学教育工作者吸引兴趣，并支持少数民族女孩的坚持，6-12年级，目前在STEM研究中代表性不足。 在迈阿密科学博物馆的领导下，这项合作汇集了一批经验丰富的机构，包括来自非正式科学、性别研究和工程界的代表。除了博物馆外，专家项目小组还包括来自科技中心协会（ASTC）和SECME公司的主要工作人员。（原东南少数民族工程联合会），作为少数民族工程专业组织参与的渠道。一个由STEM性别研究人员组成的咨询/研究小组的工作补充了项目调查人员的工作，该小组与专家项目小组密切合作，为来自十个地理上分散的博物馆的推广人员做准备，这些博物馆反过来又为全国科学丰富的机构中的非正式科学教育工作者从业者社区提供一系列培训和同行指导服务。 参与的博物馆包括：康涅狄格科学中心（康涅狄格州哈特福德），纽约科学馆（纽约），马里兰州科学中心（巴尔的摩，马里兰州），迈阿密科学博物馆（迈阿密，佛罗里达州），COSI（哥伦布，俄亥俄州），圣路易斯科学中心（圣路易斯，密苏里州），路易斯维尔科学中心（Louisville，KY），Sci-Port（什里夫波特，洛杉矶），探索（阿尔伯克基，NM）和加州科学院（加利福尼亚州旧金山弗朗西斯科），该项目的具体目标是：- 利用全国科学中心和博物馆网络，提高认识，扩大在STEM中代表性不足的女孩的机会。发展组织之间的联系，共同目的是增加少数民族女工程师的管道。通过统一的培训计划，促进性别和多样性研究转化为实践。提供持续的服务、获取计划材料和工具，以扩大科学中心和博物馆从业人员的能力，为女孩提供相关和吸引人的节目。女孩崛起网络的变革计划紧紧围绕提高科学中心和博物馆的能力，使来自代表性不足的人口的女孩对工程科学感兴趣。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。确定和建立与招募、服务和留住工程管道中的女孩有关的社区资源。更广泛的影响：通过女孩崛起博物馆网络提供的推广服务使博物馆从业人员能够接触到更多样化的人群，可能影响到数百名女孩;并有助于更广泛的努力，以减少少数民族女孩的障碍？参与STEM活动，课程和专业。此外，参与该项目的非正规科学教育工作者还受益于对文化差异的认识和了解的提高，从而在非正规科学学习社区内形成了一个具有文化能力的教育领导人网络。 该项目利用专家项目组的资源，为吸引女孩，特别是西班牙裔和非洲裔美国女孩参与工程提供高质量资源的中央储存库。

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.