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

蒙特雷社区学院的海洋先进技术教育（MATE）中心与华盛顿州立大学合作，正在开展一项针对初高中学生和教师的远程操作车辆（ROV）项目的规模研究。MATE ROV项目采用培训教员的方式，在15个地区为500名教师举办了至少45个区域专业发展讲习班。扩大该项目还包括发展地区教师领导，他们拥有以前的资金和MATE通过材料、行政流程和专业发展提供的支持，以扩大MATE ROV比赛的实施。项目成果包括提高学生对STEM和STEM职业的兴趣，增加他们对STEM内容的了解，以及工程和科学如何共同解决现实世界的问题。其他成果还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，以提高教师吸引学生参加MATE ROV比赛的能力。该项目将MATE ROV的重点从课后项目扩展到将机器人技术重点与下一代科学标准联系起来，并在中学阶段创建一系列课程体验，并完成教学视频。为家长提供在线资源是该项目正在开发的一种机制，以支持家长参与，其次是建立区域家长咨询委员会。该项目正在对参加MATE ROV比赛的学生进行纵向研究。该项目将MATE ROV AlumniWeb与国家学生信息中心连接起来，以跟踪学生从中学到大学专业和预科的学习经历。该项目还研究了MATE ROV专业发展的变化方式，这些变化在项目的15个区域中心都很明显，以便更好地了解技术丰富的项目如何扩大规模。

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.