Full Scale Development NOVA Making Stuff Season Two

Nova/WGBH科学部门将制作广受欢迎的PBS多媒体项目的第二季，由《纽约时报》科技专栏作家David Pogue主持。该项目紧随第一季的成功之后，第一季吸引了超过1450万人，并将材料科学--一个大多数人很少考虑的话题，尽管它每天都会影响他们--变成了一个具有广泛吸引力的高知名度的公共电视活动。在第二季中，该系列的内容将扩大到不仅涵盖材料科学，还将涵盖更广泛的STEM主题，包括技术和工程，重点是创新。除了接触到大量的普通观众外，该项目本季还针对新的受众--特别是未得到充分服务的青少年和大学生--进行了设计，这要归功于与纽约科学馆、加州大学伯克利分校的劳伦斯科学馆、国家科学基金会生活质量技术工程研究中心和纳米级非正式科学教育网络(NISE NET)等组织预计的新合作伙伴关系。专业组织，如材料研究学会、IEEE、Alpha Sigma Mu和国家工程师周基金会等，也将提供支持。该项目的核心是一部由四集组成的PBS迷你剧，将带领Pogue和他的观众踏上一段快节奏的冒险之旅，从实验室到工厂车间，从城市到偏远的风景--寻找来自多个领域的非凡工作，这些工作正在使事物变得更冷、更快、更原始、更安全。这部电视剧还伴随着一场广泛的外展活动，从第一季开始扩大合作伙伴的联盟，创建一个全国性的“实践社区”。这些新的伙伴关系将致力于通过外联活动、活动和科学咖啡馆，以及为非正式和正式科学教育工作者举办的专业发展网络研讨会和教育资源，增加公众对工程和创新的参与。该项目还包括强大的数字内容和面向普通受众的活跃的社交媒体存在。通过这些不同的项目组成部分，制造材料将展示基础科学研究的重要性，以及它产生影响我们生活的发现和发明的变革性过程。协和评估组将进行评估，以确定项目在实现预期影响方面的成功程度。该项目的目标是：1)增加公众对基础研究导致技术创新的理解；2)提高和保持公众对创新及其对社会的影响的认识和兴奋；3)建立一个实践社区，提高STEM研究人员和非正式教育工作者之间合作的频率和质量。《制造东西》第二季旨在捕捉研究前沿发现的刺激，同时让广大观众能够接触到潜在的科学。

The NOVA/WGBH Science Unit will produce a second season of the popular PBS multimedia project, Making Stuff, hosted by The New York Times technology columnist David Pogue. The project follows on the heels of the successful first season, which reached over 14.5 million people, and took the discipline of materials science--a topic that most people rarely think about even though it impacts them every day--and turned it into a highly visible public television event with broad appeal. For the second season, the series content will be expanded to cover not only materials science but also a broader range of STEM topics, including technology and engineering, with an emphasis on innovation. In addition to reaching a large general audience, the project is being designed this season to target new audiences--specifically, underserved teens and college students--thanks to anticipated new partnerships with organizations such as the New York Hall of Science, UC Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science, the National Science Foundation Quality of Life Technology Engineering Research Center, and the Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network (NISE Net). Professional organizations, such as the Materials Research Society, IEEE, Alpha Sigma Mu, and the National Engineers Week Foundation, among others, will also provide support. The centerpiece of the project is a four-part PBS miniseries that will take Pogue and his viewers on a fast-paced odyssey from labs to factory floors, from cities to remote landscapes--in search of the remarkable work coming from multiple fields that is making stuff Colder, Faster, Wilder and Safer. The broadcast series is accompanied by an extensive outreach campaign that expands the coalition of partners from the first season to create a national "community of practice." These new partnerships will be dedicated to increasing public engagement around engineering and innovation through outreach activities, events and science cafes, as well as professional development webinars and educational resources for informal and formal science educators. The project also includes robust digital content and an active social media presence for general audiences. Through these various project components, Making Stuff will show the importance of basic science research and the transformative process by which it yields discoveries and inventions that affect our lives. Evaluation will be conducted by Concord Evaluation Group to determine how successful the project is in achieving its intended impacts. The project goals are: 1) to increase public understanding that basic research leads to technological innovation; 2) to increase and sustain public awareness and excitement about innovation and its impact on society; and 3) to establish a community of practice that enhances the frequency and quality of collaboration among STEM researchers and informal educators. The second season of Making Stuff is designed to capture the excitement of discoveries at the frontiers of research while making the underlying science accessible to a wide audience