SBIR Phase I: Middle School Teacher- Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Expert Mobile Matching Software Application

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目将为中学教师提供一个在线匹配工具，用于与科学，数学，工程和技术（STEM）专家联系，并找到STEM基于项目的学习（PBL）产品。有了这个匹配工具，教师将能够与不同的STEM专家进行虚拟连接，以进行教师和学生指导，虚拟讨论和演示;为个人和小组项目找到PBL产品;并找到熟悉PBL产品和项目的不同STEM专家。STEM专家将在项目期间招募，重点是妇女，残疾人，代表性不足的少数民族和退伍军人。中学阶段是孩子教育和成长的关键阶段。该项目的更广泛的影响是将STEM专家的实时，多样化的面孔带到老师和课堂上，从而增加儿童？的自尊和兴趣，在干的使用“如果你能看到它，你可以成为它”的真理在教育。该项目的核心目标是在STEM专家与中学教师和学生之间建立强大且可衡量的联系，从而激励美国下一代STEM专家和教师。这个匹配工具解决了经过验证的教师需要连接行业和大学STEM专家到中学教师和学生。 匹配工具还提供了与PBL产品和项目的匹配，从而简化了需要基于项目学习的下一代科学标准（NGSS）标准的采用。易于使用的专家匹配程序还将为不同的STEM专家提供一个视频门户，通过教室计算机和移动的设备上的视频弹出。后端NGSS标记系统将汇总和测量从STEM社区直接向中学教师和学生转移的专家知识。匹配工具将包括教师/学校报告和公司/基金会报告的两个仪表板。随着该工具的广泛商业化，行业专家，教师和学生之间的联系将在头两年通过超过100，000名STEM专家的网络为超过12，000名中学教师提供行业STEM导师。 由此产生的影响将激励学生学习STEM领域，并最终获得STEM工作。由此产生的市场影响是本地增长的STEM员工的增加，从而导致美国经济许多关键领域的创新和全球竞争力的增加。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will produce an online Matching Tool for Middle School teachers to connect with Science, Math, Engineering and Technology (STEM) experts and find STEM Project-Based-Learning (PBL) products. With this Matching Tool, teachers will be able to connect virtually with diverse STEM experts for teacher and student mentoring, virtual discussions and presentations; find PBL products for individual and group projects; and locate diverse STEM experts who are familiar with PBL products and projects. STEM experts will be recruited during the project with an emphasis on women, people with disabilities, underrepresented minorities and veterans. Middle School is a key stage in children's education and aspirations. The broader impact of the project is to bring real-time, diverse faces of STEM experts both to the teacher and into the classroom thus increasing children?s self-esteem and interest in STEM by using the "if you can see it, you can be it" truth in education. The central goal of this project is to create strong and measurable links between STEM experts and Middle School teachers and students, thus inspiring America's next generation of STEM experts and teachers. This Matching Tool addresses a validated teacher need to connect industry and university STEM experts to Middle School teachers and students. The Matching Tool also provides matches to PBL products and projects, thus easing the adoption of Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) standards that require project-based learning. The easy-to-use expert matching program will also provide a video portal for diverse STEM experts to pop up via video on classroom computer and mobile devices. The backend NGSS tagging system will aggregate and measure expert knowledge transfer from the STEM community directly to Middle School teachers and students. The Matching Tool will include two Dashboards for Teacher/School reporting and Corporate/Foundation reporting. With widespread commercialization of the tool, the resulting connection between industry experts, teachers and students should provide industry STEM mentors to over 12,000 middle school teachers via a network of over 100,000 STEM experts in the first two years. The resulting impact will be to inspire students to study STEM fields and eventually secure STEM jobs. The resulting market impact is an increase in locally grown STEM employees, thus leading to an increase in American innovation and global competitiveness in many key areas of our economy.