BCP-LSA: After-School Apprenticeships

BCP-LSA：课后学徒

• 批准号: 0940604
• 负责人: Eric Schwarz
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: Citizen Schools
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-02-01 至 2013-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0940604&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: BCP; LSA; After; Apprenticeships

Citizen Schools proposes to engage 5,700 disadvantaged middle school students in hands-on computing and related STEM projects across its 7-state network of after-school and extended learning programs. By working side-by-side with professionals and graduate students from information technology and other scientific fields, middle school students will realize a connection between their after-school computing apprenticeships and the college and career opportunities to which they can aspire. In the 11-week apprenticeship courses offered within existing Citizen Schools after-school programs, middle school students will create authentic projects that develop a combination of hard and soft skills. Students will build relationships with the adult volunteers who will lead their apprenticeship courses, and these volunteers will speak credibly to students, sharing with them career opportunities in the computing and STEM fields and discussing the academic preparation necessary to pursue them. As a result, disadvantaged middle school students will be more likely to enroll in challenging courses when they enter high school, to better prepare for college, and ultimately to pursue careers in computing and other scientific fields. The project will include four types of apprenticeships: Programming in Computer Game Design, Programming in Robotics, Web Design and Web Related Projects, and Apprenticeships in Astronomy, Solar Energy, Biotechnology, Engineering, and other STEM fields. The project will be evaluated based on pre-post assessments of students? interest in pursuing computing and STEM careers, their understanding of the educational requirements for entry and advancement in those fields, and their sense of efficacy in their ability to attain college admission and career opportunity.

公民学校计划让5,700名处境不利的中学生在其7个州的课后和扩展学习计划网络中参与动手计算和相关的STEM项目。通过与来自信息技术和其他科学领域的专业人士和研究生并肩工作，中学生将实现他们的课后计算学徒与他们可以渴望的大学和职业机会之间的联系。在现有的公民学校课后计划中提供的为期11周的学徒课程中，中学生将创建真正的项目，开发硬技能和软技能的结合。学生将与将领导他们的学徒课程的成人志愿者建立关系，这些志愿者将与学生交谈，与他们分享计算机和STEM领域的职业机会，并讨论追求这些机会所需的学术准备。因此，弱势中学生在进入高中时将更有可能参加具有挑战性的课程，为大学做更好的准备，并最终追求计算机和其他科学领域的职业生涯。该项目将包括四种类型的学徒：计算机游戏设计编程，机器人编程，网页设计和网络相关项目，以及天文学，太阳能，生物技术，工程和其他STEM领域的学徒。该项目将根据学生的事前事后评估进行评估？他们对从事计算机和STEM职业的兴趣，他们对这些领域的入学和晋升的教育要求的理解，以及他们对获得大学入学和职业机会的能力的效能感。