Northwest Passage Project

西北航道项目（NPP）是罗得岛大学（URI）、内部空间中心（ISC）、海洋学研究生院（GSO）、电影公司大卫克拉克公司（David Clark Inc.）、以及其他几个合作伙伴，包括六个少数民族服务机构（MSIs）和三个非正式科学教育机构。该项目的中心是对北极西北航道的研究考察，这将使高中，本科和研究生的代际群体在美国高船SSV奥利弗哈扎德佩里（OHP）上进行实践研究。 在探险期间，一个专业的电影摄制组将制作一部两小时的纪录片，重点介绍NPP跨学科非正式STEM（科学，技术，工程和数学）学习的创新模式，并强调探险的研究，参与者以及与不断变化的北极环境相关的社会学问题。 由于加拿大北极地区地处偏远，进入成本高昂，该项目将最大限度地提高NSF的投资，让广大观众通过纪录片获得科学和探险的兴奋。 此外，这种非正式的科学学习机会不仅会让学生与科学家进行真实的研究，而且还会训练学生每天从海上向三个成熟的美国非正式科学教育机构提供直播：史密森尼国家自然历史博物馆（NMNH），探索馆和阿拉斯加海洋生物中心（ASLC）。每日广播还将通过该项目的互动网站向公众进行真实的实时广播，让人们有机会向船上的科学家和学生提问。NPP通过提高对北极生态系统变化的认识和提高科学素养，具有造福社会的巨大潜力。实践研究经验将提高参与高中学生的大学准备，并鼓励来自六个合作伙伴MSI的本科生考虑研究生课程和/或追求STEM职业。研究生也将更加职业准备，因为他们获得了21世纪世纪科学家所需的公共沟通和领导技能。西北航道项目旨在促进非正式科学教育实践中以及北极科学领域的知识和理解。项目目标包括：提高公众对北极生态系统变化的认识和理解;提高公众对北极研究和科学进程的理解;提高非正式科学教育（伊势）领域对公众在与科学家和学生“科学传播者”进行现场互动时的学习过程的理解;增加伊势领域对沉浸式科学体验的价值以及对服务不足和代表性不足的学生的影响的理解;并建立或扩大伊势机构的能力，使极地科学家，学生，记者和公众之间的联系。 NPP是创造性的，因为它结合了学生参与实地科学研究，从海上到伊势机构的现场直播，以及为公众观众制作全面的纪录片。 伊势活动的一个潜在的变革性组成部分涉及六个少数民族服务机构合作伙伴--佛罗里达国际大学;伊利诺伊大学芝加哥;加州州立大学，海峡群岛;得克萨斯州立大学;弗吉尼亚联邦大学和纽约城市学院--其学生将有机会获得改变生活的经历，这可能会使他们对STEM职业感兴趣。 这些学生中的每一个都将开发新闻故事，在各自的校园举办电影放映，并与同龄人分享他们的经验，为其他代表性不足的学生提供视觉榜样，他们可能从未想过自己有能力成为科学家或科学传播者。 另一个项目目标是加强三个伊势伙伴机构的能力和基础设施，以便它们今后在项目供资期之后可以收到来自内部空间中心的实况广播。 人，地方设计研究将进行项目的前端和形成性评估; MEM协会将进行总结性评估。一些关键的评估问题将是：* 有伊势和MSI机构的公众游客，谁查看无论是现场直播或纪录片（或两者），变得更加意识到不断变化的北极生态系统和科学研究在北极的重要性？*与完成的纪录片相比，现场直播的相对影响是什么，以及各自媒体在翻译船上体验方面的优势和劣势？*科学证据的真实的环境和社会背景是否会刺激受众对科学/STEM的作用更感兴趣？* 学生是否获得了领导技能和向同龄人传达科学的能力？* 学生是否增加了追求STEM职业的动力和兴趣？该项目由推进非正式STEM学习（AISL）计划资助，该计划旨在推进非正式环境中STEM学习设计和开发的新方法和基于证据的理解。这包括提供多种途径，以扩大获得和参与STEM学习经验，推进非正式环境中STEM学习的创新研究和评估，以及发展参与者对深入学习的理解。

The Northwest Passage Project (NPP) is a collaborative effort between the University of Rhode Island (URI), Inner Space Center (ISC), Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO), the film company David Clark Inc., and several other partners, including six Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) and three informal science education institutions. The project centers on a research expedition into the Arctic's Northwest Passage, which will engage intergenerational cohorts of high school, undergraduate, and graduate students in hands-on research aboard the U.S. tall ship SSV Oliver Hazard Perry (OHP). During the expedition, a professional film crew will produce a two-hour documentary focused on the NPP's innovative model of interdisciplinary informal STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) learning and highlight the expedition's research, participants, and the sociological issues related to the changing Arctic environment. Because the Canadian Arctic is remote and costly to access, the project will maximize NSF's investment by giving broad audiences access to the science and excitement of the expedition through the documentary. In addition, this informal science learning opportunity will not only engage students with scientists in authentic research, but also train the students to deliver daily live broadcasts from sea to three well-established U.S. informal science education institutions: the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), the Exploratorium, and the Alaska Sea Life Center (ASLC). The daily broadcasts will also reach the public in real time via the project's interactive website, providing the opportunity for people to post questions to the scientists and students onboard the ship. The NPP has great potential to benefit society by enhancing awareness of the changing Arctic's ecosystems and increasing science literacy. The hands-on research experiences will enhance the college readiness of the participating high school students and encourage the undergraduate students from the six partner MSIs to consider a graduate course of study and/or pursue STEM careers. The graduate students will also be more career-ready, as they gain public communication and leadership skills necessary for 21st century scientists. The Northwest Passage Project is designed to advance knowledge and understanding within the practice of informal science education, as well as in the field of Arctic science. The project goals include: increasing public awareness and understanding of the changing Arctic ecosystem; increase public understanding about Arctic research and the scientific process; increase the Informal Science Education (ISE) field's understanding of the public's learning process when engaged in live interactions with scientists and student 'science communicators'; increase the ISE field's understanding of the value of immersive science experiences and impact on students from underserved and underrepresented populations; and to build or extend the capacity of ISE institutions to make connections between polar scientists, students, journalists and the public. The NPP is creative in that it combines the engagement of students in field-based scientific research, live broadcasts from sea to ISE institutions, and the production of a full-scale documentary for public audiences. A potentially transformative component to the ISE activities involves six Minority Serving Institution partners--Florida International University; University of Illinois, Chicago; California State University, Channel Islands; Texas State University; Virginia Commonwealth University and City College of New York--whose students will have the opportunity for a life-changing experience that may tip the scale toward their interest in STEM careers. Each of these students will develop news stories, host screenings of the film at their respective campuses, and share their experiences with peers, providing visual role models for other underrepresented students, who may never have thought themselves capable of becoming a scientist or science communicator. An additional project goal is to enhance the capacity and infrastructure of the three ISE partner institutions so that they may receive live broadcasts from the Inner Space Center in the future, beyond the funding period of the project. People, Places & Design Research will conduct the project's front-end and formative evaluation; MEM & Associates will conduct the summative evaluation. Some of the key evaluation questions will be: * Have ISE and MSI institution public visitors, who view either the live broadcasts or the documentary film (or both), become more aware of the changing Arctic ecosystem and the importance of scientific research in the Arctic?* What is the relative impact of the live broadcasts compared to the finished documentary, and the strengths and weakness of the respective media in translating the on-board experience?* Does a real environmental and social context for scientific evidence stimulate audiences to become more interested in the role of science/STEM? * Have students gained leadership skills and the ability to communicate science to their peers? * Have students increased their motivation and interest in pursuing STEM careers?This project is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understanding of, the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments. This includes providing multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences, advancing innovative research on and assessment of STEM learning in informal environments, and developing understandings of deeper learning by participants.