GSE/DIF: Role Models Matter: Scaling Up Outreach

智力优势：Techbridge和Chabot空间和科学中心将开展一个名为“角色模型重要”的基于研究的创新项目。 该项目将为伙伴组织-女工程师协会、女童子军理事会和国家女童合作项目-的榜样提供定制培训、指导和支持，以增加和改善K-12教育中向女童推广STEM的质量。 目标是为2 200名榜样提供定制资源、培训、支持和后续行动，以便在五年内与大约87 000名女孩开展外联活动。这一扩大是基于一个经过验证的模式和资源，这些模式和资源显示出在吸引女孩对STEM职业的兴趣方面增加和改善榜样外联的证据。该项目将增加资源，允许定制和后续行动，以便在为女孩提供STEM方案/外联的三个国家组织内产生更深的影响。该项目将由一个经验丰富的团队管理，成员来自多个组织，在与榜样和女孩合作，专业发展，STEM计划，伙伴关系支持，业务发展和评估方面拥有广泛的专业知识。 合作伙伴群体经过精心挑选，非常适合项目的扩大模式，以帮助确保交付质量和可持续性承诺。 此外，这一扩大项目将与伙伴组织一起采取后续行动，记录和评价根据伙伴外联活动的频率和影响定制资源的情况。最后，网络学习工具将扩大该项目的范围和影响，以帮助扩大和维持该项目在全国的影响。更广泛的影响：该项目将通过与国家合作伙伴团体合作，帮助榜样参与，扩大和激励女孩从事STEM职业，从而产生广泛的长期影响。这一伙伴关系联盟将把为女孩服务的组织与榜样聚集在一起，以促进和维持广泛的高质量榜样外联活动。此外，在扩大规模和方案可持续性方面的最佳做法和经验教训将通过出版物和会议介绍广泛传播给全国STEM专业人员、公司、研究人员、从业人员和政策制定者。这种可见度还将有助于调动社区和国家的支持。

Intellectual Merit: Techbridge and the Chabot Space and Science Center will undertake a Scale-Up Diffusion of Research-Based Innovation project called Role Models Matter. The project will supply customized training, guidance and support for role models at partner organizations--Society of Women Engineers, Girl Scout councils, and the National Girls Collaborative Project--to increase and improve the quality of STEM outreach to girls in K-12 education. The goal is to provide customized resources, training, support, and follow up for 2,200 role models to conduct outreach with approximately 87,000 girls over five years. This Scale-up is based on a proven model and resources that show evidence of increasing and improving role model outreach in engaging girls' interest in STEM careers. The project will enhance resources, allow for customization and follow up for deeper impact within three national organizations that offer STEM programs/outreach for girls. The project will be run by an experienced team with members from multiple organizations that bring extensive expertise in working with role models and girls, professional development, STEM programs, partnership support, business development, and evaluation. The Partner groups have been carefully selected and are well-suited to the project's scale-up model to help ensure quality of delivery and promise of sustainability. In addition, this scale-up project will follow up with partner organizations to document and evaluate the customization of its resources on the frequency and impact of the partners' outreach. Finally, cyberlearning tools will expand the scope and reach of this project to help scale up and sustain the project's impact nationally. Broader Impacts: The Role Models Matter project will have broad long-term impact through working with national partner groups to help role models engage, expand, and inspire girls in STEM careers. This coalition of partnerships will bring together girl-serving organizations with role models to promote and sustain widespread quality role model outreach. In addition, the best practices and lessons learned in scaling up and program sustainability will be disseminated broadly to a national audience of STEM professionals, corporations, researchers, practitioners and policymakers through publications and conference presentations. Such visibility will also serve to leverage community and national support.