Northwest Passage Project

西北航道项目（NPP）是罗德岛大学（URI）、内太空中心（ISC）、海洋学研究生院（GSO）、电影公司大卫·克拉克公司（David Clark Inc.）和其他几个合作伙伴（包括6个少数民族服务机构（MSIs）和3个非正式科学教育机构）共同努力的结果。该项目以北极西北航道的研究考察为中心，将吸引高中生，本科生和研究生的代际队列在美国高船奥利弗·哈泽德·佩里（OHP）上进行实践研究。在考察期间，一个专业的电影摄制组将制作一部两小时的纪录片，聚焦于NPP跨学科非正式STEM（科学、技术、工程和数学）学习的创新模式，并突出考察的研究、参与者以及与北极环境变化相关的社会学问题。由于加拿大北极地区地处偏远，进入成本高昂，该项目将使美国国家科学基金会的投资最大化，让广大观众通过纪录片了解科学和探险的兴奋。此外，这个非正式的科学学习机会不仅可以让学生与科学家一起进行真实的研究，还可以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进行现场直播：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实时向公众播放，让人们有机会向船上的科学家和学生提问。通过提高对北极生态系统变化的认识和提高科学素养，NPP具有极大的造福社会的潜力。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msi的本科生考虑学习研究生课程和/或追求STEM职业。研究生也将为就业做好准备，因为他们将获得21世纪科学家所必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以及北极科学领域的知识和理解。该项目的目标包括：提高公众对不断变化的北极生态系统的认识和理解；增进公众对北极研究和科学进程的了解；在与科学家和学生“科学传播者”进行现场互动时，增加非正式科学教育（ISE）领域对公众学习过程的理解；增加ISE领域对沉浸式科学体验的价值的理解，以及对来自服务不足和代表性不足人群的学生的影响；建立或扩大ISE机构在极地科学家、学生、记者和公众之间建立联系的能力。NPP的创新之处在于，它结合了学生参与实地科学研究、从海上到ISE机构的现场直播，以及为公众观众制作一部全面的纪录片。ISE活动的潜在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分校；加州州立大学，海峡群岛；德克萨斯州立大学；弗吉尼亚联邦大学（Virginia Commonwealth University）和纽约城市学院（City College of New York）——这两所大学的学生将有机会获得改变人生的经历，这可能会让他们对STEM职业产生兴趣。这些学生中的每一个人都将编写新闻故事，在各自的校园里主持电影放映，并与同龄人分享他们的经历，为其他可能从未想过自己有能力成为科学家或科学传播者的弱势学生提供视觉榜样。项目的另一个目标是提高三个ISE合作机构的能力和基础设施，以便在项目资助期之后，它们将来可以接收来自内太空中心的直播。《人物、地点与设计研究》将负责项目的前期和形成性评估；MEM &amp； Associates将进行总结性评估。一些关键的评估问题将是：* ISE和MSI机构的公众参观者，无论是观看现场直播还是纪录片（或两者都看），是否更加意识到北极生态系统的变化和北极科学研究的重要性？*与完成的纪录片相比，直播的相对影响是什么？各自媒体在翻译机上体验方面的优势和劣势是什么？*科学证据的真实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与同龄人交流科学的能力？*学生是否增加了从事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学习的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，扩大STEM学习经验的获取和参与，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度学习的理解。

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.