Sustaining and Expanding Mobile Making in Underserved Communities

该项目由加州州立大学圣马科斯分校及其合作伙伴开展，将扩大并继续创新一个试点移动制造项目，目标是在圣地亚哥地区的12个课后项目中开发一个可持续的区域模式，为服务不足的中学生提供服务。对当前移动制作项目的评估记录了参与者对制作/STEM在日常生活中的相关性的兴趣、自我效能和感知的积极影响，并形成了一个吸引缺乏服务的青年参与制作的模式。这项工作的重点是通过增加本科生活动负责人的数量、课后活动地点和社区参与水平，以更大的能力可持续地实施项目模式。扩大后的移动制造计划预计将在12个当地学校吸引约1800名中学生，并由约1020名科罗拉多州立大学- sm STEM专业的本科生提供活动。这些学校位于种族多样化和经济条件较差的社区，在一些学校，多达90%的学生有资格享受免费或减价午餐。本科生辅导员来自科罗拉多州立大学管理学院多元化的学生群体，其中包括44%未被充分代表的少数族裔。预计结果将包括青年参与者的兴趣，自我效能感和对制造/STEM在日常生活中的相关性的感知的增加。对本科辅导员的积极影响将包括拓宽技术技能，提高领导能力和21世纪技能，以及提高对STEM推广/非正式科学教育的终身兴趣。该计划旨在通过创新手段实现可持续发展，例如通过社区服务学习（而不是有偿职位）让本科生辅导员参与其中，并通过发展和支持包括当地课后服务提供者、教师、创客和大学成员在内的实践社区来提高社区参与度。对项目成果和经验教训的评估有望形成一个全面的模式，以可持续的、以大学为基础的课后制作项目，在服务不足的社区产生区域影响。传播到其他地区将通过CSU- sm在加州州立大学（CSU）系统中的成员，产生潜在的全州影响。CSU校长办公室的支持和CSU实施小组的投入将确保该模型适用于其他地区大学环境，确定共同的结构性障碍和解决方案，并增加二次实施的可能性。这项工作由推进非正式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。

This project by California State University San Marcos and their collaborators will expand and continue to innovate on a pilot Mobile Making program with the goal of developing a sustainable, regional model for serving underserved, middle-school aged youth in twelve after-school programs in the San Diego region. Evaluation of the current Mobile Making program has documented positive impacts on participants' interest, self-efficacy, and perception of the relevance of Making/STEM in everyday life, and led to a model for engaging underserved youth in Making. The work will focus on implementing the program model sustainably at greater capacity by increasing the number of undergraduate activity leaders, after-school sites, and level of community engagement. The expanded Mobile Making program is expected to engage ~1800 middle school youth at 12 local school sites, with activities facilitated by ~1020 undergraduate CSU-SM STEM majors. The sites are in ethnically diverse and economically disadvantaged neighborhoods, with as many as 90% of students at some sites qualifying for free or reduced price lunch. The undergraduate facilitators are drawn from CSU-SM's diverse student body, which includes 44% underrepresented minorities. Outcomes are expected to include increases in the youth participants' interest, self-efficacy, and perception of the relevance of Making/STEM in everyday life. Positive impacts on the undergraduate facilitators will include broadened technical skills, increased leadership and 21st century skills, and increased lifelong interest in STEM outreach/informal science education. The program is designed to achieve sustainability through innovative means such as involving undergraduate facilitators via Community Service Learning (rather than paid positions), and increased community engagement via development and support of a community of practice including local after-school providers, teachers, Makers, and University members. Evaluation of the program outcomes and lessons learned are expected to result in a comprehensive model for a sustainable, university-based after-school Making program with regional impact in underserved communities. Dissemination to other regions will be leveraged via CSU-SM's membership in the California State University (CSU) system, yielding a potential statewide impact. The support of the CSU Chancellor's Office and input from a CSU implementation group will ensure the applicability of the model to other regional university settings, identify common structural barriers and solutions, and increase the probability of secondary implementations.This work 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.