An Introduction to Careers in Polar Sciences for Young Women

首席研究员为十几岁的年轻女性提出了一系列以冰川、气候和高山景观为主题的实地课程，为她们提供沉浸式科学体验，为学生提供四个目标：？增加年轻女性？你有兴趣把科学作为职业吗？为科学进程创造终身的倡导者？教授批判性思维技能？增强他们的领导自信，使他们在未来更有可能成为社区领袖。这一系列课程将以一个非常成功的项目“冰上女孩”（http://girlsonice.org）为基础，该项目已经领导了近10年，为年轻女性提供了坚强的女性榜样；有机会看到地球科学的职业生涯是什么样的；与科学家进行一对一的互动；促进有关地球科学在社会问题上的价值的讨论；这些挑战将以多种方式建立他们的自信。为了确保体验过冰上女孩的年轻女性保持新的自信和灵感，PI将创建一个同伴指导项目（主要通过在线方式），这样年长的冰上女孩参与者就可以在高中最后几年和进入大学期间指导年轻的女孩。参加者还将被要求在回国后在高中与年轻女性进行演讲和讨论。此外，PI将领导两个研究生研讨会，提供实地教学的培训和经验。参加该项目的研究生不仅有机会参加girl onIce和Alaska Summer Research Academy的课程，还将为她们未来的学术生涯提供宝贵的技能。该提案包括一项正式的项目评估和评估，其中包括对一群冰上女孩参与者进行为期四年的纵向研究，因为她们在高中毕业时经历了过渡期。

The Principal Investigator proposes a series of field courses for teenage young women with the theme of Glaciers, Climate, and the Alpine Landscape to provide them with an immersion-science experience that has four goals for students:?to increase young women?s interest in pursuing science as a career?to create life-long advocates for the scientific process ?to teach critical thinking skills ?to enhance their leadership self-confidence so that they have a higher likelihood of becomingcommunity leaders in the future.This series of courses will build on a highly successful program, Girls on Ice (http://girlsonice.org), which the PI has been leading for nearly 10 years and which provides young women with strong, female role models; with an opportunity to see what a career in the Earth sciences is like; with one-on-one interactions with scientists; with facilitated discussions on the value of Earth science in societal issues; and with challenges that will build their self-confidence in multiple ways.To ensure that the young women who experience Girls on Ice maintain their new self-confidence and inspiration, the PI will create a peer-mentoring program (primarily through on-line methods) such that older Girls on Ice participants can mentor younger ones through their last years of high school and entering college. Participants will also be required to give a presentation and lead a discussion with young women at their high school after they return. Furthermore, the PI will lead two graduate student workshops to provide training and experiencein field teaching. The graduate students who participate will not only have opportunities to lead Girls onIce and Alaska Summer Research Academy courses, but also will give them valuable skills for theirfuture academic career. This proposal includes a formal program evaluation and assessment that includes a four-year longitudinal study of one cohort of Girls on Ice participants as they go through the transitional period at the end of high school.