BCP-LSA: After-School Apprenticeships

公民学校计划通过其7个州的课后和延伸学习计划网络，让5700名贫困中学生参与动手计算和相关的STEM项目。通过与信息技术等科学领域的专业人士和研究生并肩工作，中学生将实现课外计算学徒与他们渴望的大学和职业机会之间的联系。在现有的公民学校课外项目中提供的为期11周的学徒课程中，中学生将创建真正的项目，发展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年志愿者建立关系，这些志愿者将可信地与学生交谈，与他们分享计算机和STEM领域的职业机会，并讨论追求他们所需的学术准备。因此，贫困中学生进入高中后将更有可能参加具有挑战性的课程，以便更好地为大学做准备，并最终在计算机和其他科学领域追求职业生涯。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、网络设计和与网络相关的项目，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岗位前评估进行评估？他们对从事计算机和STEM职业的兴趣，他们对进入和在这些领域晋升的教育要求的了解，以及他们对获得大学入学和就业机会的能力的效能感。

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.