Pathways: Apprenticeships in Sustainability Science and Engineering Design (ASCEND)

ASCEND研究和开发项目是加州大学圣克鲁斯（几个部门）与地区博物馆，市政府职业培训计划和当地企业的合作，探索整合和比较两种可持续工程学徒方法的影响风险青年-设计-建造和数字故事讲述设计-建造经验。 项目目标是：（1）了解如何激励高危青年从事绿色技术职业，并为他们做好准备;（2）通过研究学习，了解数字讲故事是否/如何提高青年在STEM、内容知识和实践方面的熟练程度;（3）探索科学博物馆如何成为社区网络的一部分，解决基于项目的学习和地方可持续性工作。该项目旨在更好地协调和利用现有的圣克鲁斯绿色技术和可持续性项目，作为培养高危青年STEM的基础。在可持续发展/绿色技术领域的基础职业。 该项目旨在为博物馆如何与其他组织（在这种情况下，采用绿色设计的市政码头企业）合作提供一个模型，以围绕可持续的实践和职业建立持久的社区关系。 可行性概念验证研究涉及约60名风险青年，以及一些当地专业人员和企业家，博物馆的工作人员和参观者，市政官员，作为导师的本科生，以及内容领域和数字讲故事方法的大学讲师和研究人员。 根据项目过程中的发现，该团队的意图是在概念上和地理上围绕加州和美国扩展该模型。

The ASCEND research and development project is a collaboration of UC Santa Cruz (several departments) with area museums, municipal government programs in vocational training and local businesses that explores the impact of integrating and comparing two sustainable engineering apprenticeship approaches for at-risk youth -- design-build and digital-storytelling about the design-build experiences. It applies and expands into informal STEM education a model that UCSC has implemented for undergraduates.Project objectives are: (1) understand how to motivate and prepare at-risk youth for careers in green technology; (2) learn via a research study whether/how digital-storytelling can increase youths' proficiency in STEM, content knowledge and practices; (3) explore how the science museums can be part of a community network addressing project-based learning and local sustainability efforts.The project seeks to better coordinate and leverage existing Santa Cruz green technology and sustainability projects as a basis for preparing at-risk youth for STEM-based careers in the sustainability/green technology field. The project intends to provide a model for how museums can work with other organizations (in this case, municipal wharfs businesses that employ green design) to create lasting community relationships around sustainable practices and careers. The feasibility, proof-of-concept study involves approximately 60 at-risk youth, as well as several local professionals and entrepreneurs, staff and visitors at the museums, municipal officials, undergraduate students as mentors and university instructors and researchers in the content domain and in digital storytelling approaches. Drawing on its findings over the course of the project, the team's intention is to expand the model conceptually and geographically around California and the USA.