Collaborative Research: LIGO Science Education Center Partnership - Broadening Participation

合作研究：LIGO 科学教育中心合作伙伴关系 - 扩大参与范围

• 批准号: 1506269
• 负责人: Michael Stubblefield
• 金额: $ 250万
• 依托单位: Southern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-15 至 2022-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1506269&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; LIGO; Science; Education

This award is one component of a collaborative effort to fund the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) Science Education Center Partnership between Southern University in Baton Rouge (SUBR), LA, the LIGO Livingston site in Livingston, La, through the Baton Rouge Area Foundation (BRAF), and the Exploratorium. The managing institution for LIGO itself is California Institute of Technology. The project is the continuation of the LIGO Science Education Center Partnership focused on scientific outreach to the general public, teacher training, and teacher education focused on LIGO activities in Louisiana. A previous award helped create the SEC building, with a classroom and a large exhibit hall, with exhibits developed by the Exploratorium and staffed by SUBR student docents and a (separately funded) professional staff. The multilayered partnership of HBCUs, a cutting edge research facility and a renowned informal science center created a model for future partnerships. With the expansion of this partnership the model is extended, and research on the effects of these extensive partnerships can provide information for future attempts at leveraging the resources of research laboratories for educational purposes.This project will use the LIGO-SEC Partnership to amplify and nurture a Science, Technology, Engineering, Education and Mathematics (STEEM) pipeline that taps into under-represented audiences and engages them in techniques that encourage students to advance their education in STEEM fields. The docent program and the teacher programs will increase participation of under-represented audiences within the STEEM fields. The docent program will train between sixty and eighty under-represented STEEM majors to become community ambassadors in conjunction with LIGO Science Education Center's outreach program, and the docents will interact with between 12,500 and 5,000 participants. The teacher professional development activities target high-need areas in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. The activities will develop around 250 teachers' familiarity with engineering design processes and underlying science concepts. These teachers will create and build interactive science activities to use in the classroom to engage with students. Graduate students will conduct new research in the use of inquiry and informal science methods within the formal (School) and informal (LIGO-SEC) environments. The graduate students' dissertations will contribute to the literature on Informal Science Education. The project is guided by an on-going evaluation.

该奖项是一个合作努力，以资助激光干涉仪引力波天文台（LIGO）科学教育中心之间的合作伙伴关系在巴吞鲁日南方大学（SUBR），洛杉矶，利文斯顿LIGO利文斯顿网站，洛杉矶，通过巴吞鲁日地区基金会（BRAF）和探索的一部分。LIGO本身的管理机构是加州理工学院。 该项目是LIGO科学教育中心合作伙伴关系的延续，该合作伙伴关系专注于对公众的科学宣传，教师培训和教师教育，重点是路易斯安那州的LIGO活动。之前的一个奖项帮助创建了SEC大楼，有一个教室和一个大型展厅，展品由探索馆开发，由SUBR学生讲解员和一个（单独资助的）专业人员组成。 HBCUs的多层次合作伙伴关系，一个尖端的研究机构和一个著名的非正式科学中心为未来的合作伙伴关系创造了一个模式。随着这种伙伴关系的扩大，该模型得到了扩展，对这些广泛伙伴关系的影响的研究可以为未来利用研究实验室资源用于教育目的的尝试提供信息。该项目将利用LIGO-SEC伙伴关系来扩大和培育科学，技术，工程，教育和数学（STEEM）管道，利用代表性不足的观众，并让他们参与鼓励学生在STEEM领域推进教育的技术。讲解员计划和教师计划将增加STEEM领域内代表性不足的观众的参与。讲师计划将培训60至80名代表性不足的STEEM专业学生，使他们成为LIGO科学教育中心外展计划的社区大使，讲师将与12，500至5，000名参与者互动。教师专业发展活动的目标是新奥尔良和巴吞鲁日的高需求地区。这些活动将使大约250名教师熟悉工程设计过程和基本的科学概念。 这些教师将创建和建立互动的科学活动，在课堂上使用，与学生互动。 研究生将在正式（学校）和非正式（LIGO-SEC）环境中使用调查和非正式科学方法进行新的研究。研究生的论文将有助于非正式科学教育的文献。 该项目以一项正在进行的评价为指导。