GSE/DIF SciGirls CONNECT - A Diffusion Scale Up Project

GSE/DIF SciGirls CONNECT - 扩散扩大项目

• 批准号: 1103016
• 负责人: Rita Karl
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: Twin Cities Public Television
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-04-01 至 2018-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1103016&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GSE; DIF; SciGirls; CONNECT; Diffusion

Twin Cities Public Television (TPT) will lead a five-year Scale Up project to support SciGirls CONNECT, an initiative to train 100 organizations in the use of SciGirls programming. Scale-up funding will allow training, support, and the ability to engage participating projects beyond the startup year and to sustain projects into the future.Intellectual Merit: SciGirls has grown from a small, experimental, media-based outreach effort into a national demonstration project that combines video, printed activity guides and professional development for educators, all linked through dedicated websites. All of the SciGirls components focus on a singular goal: to inspire and encourage STEM learning and participation for all girls and develop their interest in STEM careers. SciGirls programming has been tested with many different types of girl-serving organizations including PBS station outreach teams, community-based organizations and science centers, and Latina-serving organizations, including Spanish translations of SciGirls resources. The approach to SciGirls training, outreach and educational materials, is based on academic research into how to best engage girls in STEM. Strategies are applied across all the STEM disciplines in a real-world, holistic approach, linking science with technology with engineering with math. Partner organizations are provided with SciGirls videos, Activity Guides and professional development workshops, both on-site and online. The approaches to building a larger community are based in both research and in an iterative experience working with and training past SciGirls partners.Broader Impacts: The strength of SciGirls lies in its multimedia approach, and unique videos that model authentic STEM experiences for girls, including the new PBS SciGirls TV series. All of the SciGirls videos provide unique, real-world role models for girls. In each video, girls see their peers using science, technology, engineering and math to answer questions about their favorite activities. STEM is no longer an abstraction; it becomes real and relevant to girls? lives. The presence of the national SciGirls TV series on PBS provides unique and powerful promotion of SciGirls CONNECT. No other program dedicated to girls and STEM has the visibility of national television broadcasts to interest girls in pursuing STEM activities. SciGirls CONNECT will build on strategic partnerships with The National Girls Collaborative Project (NGCP) and the other GSE Extension Services. The work will be guided by an advisory board of leaders in STEM programming for girls, with specialties in museums, Hispanic communities and technology. Ultimately, the key goal of SciGirls CONNECT will be to build a vibrant community of empowered, well-informed professionals devoted to encouraging more girls to take part in STEM activities and pursue STEM careers.

双城公共电视台（TPT）将领导一个为期五年的扩大项目，以支持SciGirls CONNECT，该项目旨在培训100个组织使用SciGirls节目。扩大规模的资金将用于培训、支持和参与项目在启动年之后的参与能力，并将项目持续到未来。智力优势：SciGirls已经从一个小型的、实验性的、基于媒体的推广活动发展成为一个全国性的示范项目，它结合了视频、印刷活动指南和教育工作者的专业发展，所有这些都通过专门的网站链接起来。SciGirls的所有组成部分都集中在一个目标上：激励和鼓励所有女孩学习和参与STEM，并培养她们对STEM职业的兴趣。SciGirls项目已经在许多不同类型的女孩服务组织中进行了测试，包括公共广播电台外展小组、社区组织和科学中心，以及拉丁裔服务组织，包括SciGirls资源的西班牙语翻译。女生培训、外联和教育材料的方法是基于对如何最好地让女孩参与STEM的学术研究。策略以现实世界的整体方法应用于所有STEM学科，将科学与技术、工程与数学联系起来。为合作组织提供SciGirls视频、活动指南和专业发展研讨会，包括现场和在线。建立更大社区的方法既基于研究，也基于与过去的SciGirls伙伴合作和培训的反复经验。更广泛的影响：SciGirls的优势在于其多媒体方法，以及为女孩提供真实STEM体验的独特视频，包括新的PBS SciGirls电视连续剧。所有的SciGirls视频都为女孩们提供了独特的、真实的榜样。在每个视频中，女孩们看到她们的同龄人用科学、技术、工程和数学来回答有关她们最喜欢的活动的问题。STEM不再是一个抽象概念；它对女孩来说变得真实和相关？的生活。PBS电视台播出的全国电视剧《超女》为《超女CONNECT》提供了独特而有力的推广。没有其他专门针对女孩和STEM的节目能像全国电视广播那样吸引女孩从事STEM活动。scigirsconnect将与全国女童合作项目（NGCP）和其他GSE推广服务建立战略伙伴关系。这项工作将由一个由女性STEM项目领导人组成的咨询委员会指导，该委员会在博物馆、西班牙裔社区和技术领域具有专长。最终，SciGirls CONNECT的主要目标是建立一个充满活力的社区，由有能力、见多识广的专业人士组成，致力于鼓励更多女孩参与STEM活动并追求STEM职业。