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

智力优势：基于迈阿密科学博物馆为低收入拉美裔和非裔美国女孩进行的近20年的博物馆规划，该推广服务项目采用培训培训员的方法，建立一个博物馆推广代理网络，致力于帮助非正式的科学教育工作者吸引兴趣并支持6-12年级少数族裔女孩的坚持不懈，目前STEM研究中这一群体的比例较低。该合作由迈阿密科学博物馆领导，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，专家项目团队还包括来自科学技术中心协会(ASTC)和SECME Inc.(前工程少数族裔联盟)的主要工作人员，他们是少数族裔工程专业组织参与的渠道。STEM性别问题研究人员咨询/研究小组的工作与项目调查人员的工作相辅相成，它与专家项目小组密切合作，准备来自地理上分散的十个博物馆的推广人员，他们反过来向全国科学丰富的机构中非正式科学教育工作者的实践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：康涅狄格州科学中心(康涅狄格州哈特福德)、纽约科学馆(纽约，纽约州)、马里兰科学中心(马里兰州巴尔的摩)、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(路易斯维尔，肯塔基州)、科学港(什里夫波特，洛杉矶)、探索(阿尔伯克基，新墨西哥州)和加州科学院(旧金山，旧金山)。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认识并扩大在STEM中代表性不足的女孩的机会。-发展各组织之间的联系，以期增加少数民族女性工程师的渠道。-通过统一的培训计划，促进将性别和多样性研究转化为实践。-提供持续服务、获取计划材料和工具，以扩大科学中心和博物馆从业人员为女孩提供相关和吸引人的节目的能力。女孩崛起网络的变革计划密切关注提高科学中心和博物馆的能力，以吸引工程学中代表性不足人口的女孩。它包括三个主要过程：1.评估性别、种族和族裔方面的组织气氛。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。优化非正式科学学习环境，使少数族裔女孩参与工程学预科竞赛和相关方案。广泛影响：通过Girls Rise博物馆网络提供的扩展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；并促进减少对少数族裔女孩的障碍的更广泛努力？参加STEM活动、课程和专业。此外，参加该项目的非正式科学教育工作者受益于提高了对文化差异的认识和了解，从而在非正式科学学习社区内形成了一个具有文化能力的教育领袖网络。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裔美国女孩从事工程工作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.