Scaling Up Success: Using MATE's ROV Competitions to Build a Collaborative Learning Community that Fuels the Ocean STEM Workforce Pipeline

蒙特利社区学院的海洋先进技术教育(Mate)中心正在与华盛顿州立大学合作，针对初高中学生和教师的新受众，开展一项针对远程操纵飞行器(ROV)计划的扩大研究。利用培训培训员的办法，Mate ROV项目正在15个地区为500名教师举办至少45个区域专业发展讲习班。扩大该项目还包括培养区域教师领袖，他们从以前的资金中获得资源，并通过材料、行政程序和专业发展获得Mate的支持，以扩大Mate ROV竞赛的实施。该项目的成果包括提高学生对STEM和STEM职业的兴趣，以及增加他们对STEM内容以及工程和科学如何合作解决现实世界问题的知识。其他成果包括增加家长的参与，以支持和鼓励学生继续STEM学习和职业生涯，以及实施专业发展、教学资源和指导，以提高教师参与Mate ROV比赛的能力。该项目正在扩大Mate ROV的重点，将课外计划的机器人学重点与下一代科学标准联系起来，并创建一系列跨中学年级的课程体验和教学视频。为家长提供在线资源是该项目正在开发的支持家长参与的机制之一，建立区域家长咨询委员会是第二个机制。该项目正在对参加Mate ROV比赛的学生进行纵向研究。该项目正在将Mate ROV AlumniWeb连接到国家学生信息交换中心，以跟踪学生从中学到他们的大学专业和入学情况。该项目还在研究Mate ROV专业发展的差异在该项目的15个区域枢纽中的明显方式，以更好地了解技术丰富的计划如何规模化。

The Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center at the Monterey Community College in collaboration with Washington State University is engaging in a scale-up study of the remote operated vehicle (ROV) program to new audiences of middle and high school students and teachers. Using a train the trainers approach, the MATE ROV project is conducting at least 45 regional professional development workshops in 15 regions for a total of 500 teachers. Scaling-up the project also includes the development of regional teacher leaders who have the resources developed from previous funding and the support from MATE through materials, administrative processes, and professional development to expand the implementation of the MATE ROV competitions. The project outcomes include increased student interest in STEM and STEM careers as well as increasing their knowledge of STEM content and how engineering and science work together to solve real-world problems. Additional outcomes include increasing parental involvement to support and encourage students to continue with STEM studies and careers and the implementation of professional development, instructional resources and mentoring to increase teacher capacity to engage students in the MATE ROV competitions.The project is expanding the focus of the MATE ROV from an after school program to connect the robotics focus of the program to the Next Generation Science Standards and create a series of curricula experiences across the middle grades complete with instructional videos. An online resource for parents is one mechanism that the project is developing to support parental involvement, and the structuring of regional parental advisory boards is a second. The project is conducting a longitudinal study of the students who participate in the MATE ROV competitions. The project is connecting the MATE ROV AlumniWeb to the National Student Clearinghouse to track students from the secondary experiences with the program into their college majors and matriculation. The project is also studying the ways that the variation of the MATE ROV professional development is evident throughout the 15 regional hubs of the project to provide a better understanding of how a technology-rich program moves to scale.