BPC-DP: SpelBots: African American Women Showcasing Robotics and Computer Science to Underrepresented K-12 Students Nationally

BPC-DP：SpelBots：非裔美国女性向全国代表性不足的 K-12 学生展示机器人和计算机科学

• 批准号: 1042454
• 负责人: Andrea Lawrence
• 金额: $ 52.5万
• 依托单位: Spelman College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-12-01 至 2014-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1042454&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: BPC; DP; SpelBots; African; American

Spelman College will expand its work with women and underrepresented students in computer science and robotics nationally through the SpelBots robotics and computing program and the creation of the National SPELBOTS Club for K-12 students. The SpelBots are a team of female, African American students who conduct robotics research, compete worldwide in robotics and computer science competitions, and conduct K-12 outreach. The long-range vision of this project is to leverage the SpelBots activities to provide career role models in cutting-edge computer science and robotics from underrepresented communities. This project will bring attitude-changing computer science and robotics showcase presentations to underrepresented students and their teachers, and in conjunction with these showcases, promote the formation and mentoring of robotics and computer science clubs among K-12 students using social media as well as local workshops. Further, it will recruit, mentor and train undergraduate African American women students in computer science and robotics research, outreach, and competition projects. In addition, this project will provide advising for these activities for students at local historically black colleges and universities. The goals are to (1) investigate the effectiveness of the showcase approach to exposing, exciting, recruiting, and mentoring underrepresented middle and high school students in computing, (2) study the impact of our recruitment and retention activities in computer science among African American women, specifically, and underrepresented students, generally, in order to disseminate best practices, and (3) increase the amount of autonomous humanoid and mobile robotics research performed by African American undergraduate women.

Spelman College将通过SpelBots机器人和计算项目以及为K-12学生创建国家SPELBOTS俱乐部，在全国范围内扩大与计算机科学和机器人领域女性和代表性不足的学生的合作。SpelBots是一个由非裔美国女学生组成的团队，他们进行机器人研究，在世界范围内参加机器人和计算机科学竞赛，并进行K-12推广。 该项目的长期愿景是利用SpelBots活动为代表性不足的社区提供尖端计算机科学和机器人领域的职业榜样。该项目将为代表性不足的学生及其教师带来改变态度的计算机科学和机器人展示，并与这些展示相结合，促进K-12学生使用社交媒体和当地研讨会组建和指导机器人和计算机科学俱乐部。此外，它还将招募、指导和培训非裔美国女大学生从事计算机科学和机器人技术研究、推广和竞赛项目。此外，该项目将为当地历史悠久的黑人学院和大学的学生提供这些活动的建议。 我们的目标是（1）调查展示方法的有效性，以暴露，兴奋，招聘和指导代表性不足的初中和高中学生在计算，（2）研究我们的招聘和保留活动在计算机科学中的影响非洲裔美国妇女，特别是，和代表性不足的学生，一般来说，为了传播最佳实践，以及（3）增加由非裔美国女大学生进行的自主人形和移动的机器人研究的数量。