EAGER: The Artemis Project: Evaluation and Expansion

阿尔忒弥斯是一个为期五周的暑期项目，它的参与者（即将升入九年级的女孩）将接触到计算机科学的广度。女孩们通过开展一系列教育和建立信任活动来学习。此外，女孩们还听取了来自学术界和工业界的女科学家和其他潜在榜样的讲座。阿尔忒弥斯也是一个交流的机会：参与其中的女孩和其他对科学感兴趣的同龄女孩交朋友。该项目的一个关键目标是，每个阿尔忒弥斯学院的学生都应该能够在夏季结束时把自己想象成一名科学家。阿尔忒弥斯项目的另一个同样重要的目标是培养项目协调人的技能。布朗大学的女本科生每年都担任协调员。虽然他们的主要职责是设计课程和教授计算机科学，但协调员也有权做出许多对项目运行至关重要的决定。他们为阿尔忒弥斯做广告，审查申请并选择参与者，为企业制定预算，并最终雇佣自己的继任者。通过参与Artemis项目，协调员培养了强大的领导能力和创业技能，并最终以社会企业家的身份为布朗大学当地社区服务。该奖项支持阿尔忒弥斯——其过去的活动和两个新增项目。首先，在阿尔忒弥斯计划实施15周年之际，该项目正在评估该计划的影响。该项目正在利用专家评估人员对阿尔特弥斯进行纵向研究，以确定阿尔特弥斯女孩和协调员是否比非阿尔特弥斯女孩和协调员以更高的比率继续从事科学事业。这种评估对阿尔忒弥斯的长期可持续性至关重要，因为它将使我们能够发现项目成功的维度，这将保证持续的机构承诺，并促进未来的筹款努力。其次，该奖项正在资助将Artemis扩展到布朗大学以外的试探性步骤，首先是波士顿大学。波士顿大学Artemis项目将由学习资源网络（LERNet）管理，该中心致力于通过提供广泛的项目，让K-12学生参与STEM活动，让他们接触当前的科学研究，并激发他们对STEM学科的兴趣，在大学预科学生中推广科学、数学和工程。

Artemis is a five-week summer program in which its participants (rising ninth-grade girls) are exposed to the breadth of Computer Science. The girls learn by undertaking a range of educational and confidence-building activities. Further, the girls hear lectures from women scientists and other potential role models from academia and industry. Artemis is also a networking opportunity: the girls who participate befriend other girls their age who have an interest in the sciences. A key goal of the program is that each Artemis student should be able to picture herself as a scientist by the end of the summer.An equally important goal of Artemis is to develop the skills of the program's coordinators. Female Brown undergraduates serve as coordinators each year. While their primary responsibilities are to design a curriculum and teach Computer Science, the coordinators are also empowered to make many of the decisions that are critical to running the program. They advertise Artemis, review applications and select participants, budget the enterprise and eventually hire their own successors. Through their participation in Artemis, the coordinators develop strong leadership and entrepreneurial skills, and ultimately serve Brown's local community in their capacity as social entrepreneurs.This award supports Artemis---its past activities and two additions. First, as Artemis is in its 15th year, this project is assessing the impact of the program. The project is undertaking a longitudinal study of Artemis, using expert evaluators, to determine if Artemis girls and coordinators go on to pursue careers in the sciences at a higher rate than non-Artemis girls and coordinators. This evaluation is crucial to the long-term sustainability of Artemis, because it will enable us to discover the dimensions along which the program is successful, which will guarantee continued institutional commitment and facilitate future fundraising efforts. Second, the award is funding tentative steps to expand Artemis beyond Brown, beginning with Boston University. The Boston University Artemis program will be administered by the Learning Resource Network (LERNet), a center dedicated to promoting science, mathematics, and engineering among the pre-college population by offering a wide range of programs that engage K-12 students in STEM activities, expose them to current scientific research, and stimulate their interest in STEM disciplines.