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

蒙特利社区学院海洋先进技术教育中心与华盛顿州立大学合作，正在对面向初高中学生和教师的遥控飞行器方案进行扩大研究。MATE项目采用培训培训员的办法，在15个地区为总共500名教师举办至少45个地区专业发展讲习班。扩大该项目还包括发展区域教师领导人，他们拥有从以前的资金中开发的资源以及MATE通过材料，行政流程和专业发展提供的支持，以扩大MATE竞争的实施。项目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。其他成果包括增加家长的参与，以支持和鼓励学生继续与干的研究和职业生涯，并实施专业发展，教学资源和指导，以提高教师的能力，使学生参与MATE竞赛。该项目正在扩大MATE竞赛的重点，从课后计划，以连接该计划的机器人重点到下一代科学标准并创建一系列的课程经验，在中间年级完成教学视频。该项目正在开发一个家长在线资源，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竞赛的学生进行纵向研究。该项目正在将MATE ESTA校友网络连接到全国学生信息交换中心，以跟踪学生从该计划的中学经验到他们的大学专业和预科。该项目还研究了MATE专业发展的变化在该项目的15个区域中心中是显而易见的，以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.