Preparing African American Males for Energy & Education (PAAMEE)

该项目将推动学生和教师创新技术体验(ITEST)计划的努力，以更好地了解和促进实践，通过参与现场实践、基于实验室/项目的创业任务和指导经验，提高学生在科学、技术、工程或数学(STEM)领域追求职业生涯的动机和能力。拟议的项目，为非洲裔美国男性能源和教育准备(PAAMEE)，是ITEST战略项目，旨在暴露、激励和准备非裔美国男性在发电和可再生能源行业的技术职业生涯和中学后教育。该项目将吸引240名底特律大都市10-12年级的非裔美国男性参与基于项目的课外科学和工程活动，教授与能源生产和储存相关的概念。使用队列模式，学生将在15个月的时间内参与STEM教育规划、大学准备和青年指导。除了掌握技术概念外，学生还将与商业专业人士、企业家和追求科学和工程学位的大学生见面。该项目的主要内容领域包括基于项目的工程和领导力课程、职业探索活动和社区服务机会。每门课程都将根据高中生的学习需求进行组织。底特律地区大学预科工程课程将与底特律大都市区、密歇根州立大学(密歇根州立大学兰辛)和密歇根科技大学(密歇根霍顿)的合作伙伴在校园内轮流上课。该计划的一个关键方面是为学生参与者提供在大学环境中从事学术和技术工作的机会。该计划将进行一项混合方法的研究研究，以直接解决三个指导性研究问题：1)哪些连贯的经验集有效和高效地支持学生在当前或未来有效参与STEM相关劳动力的能力、动机和毅力。2)在激励学生了解、对STEM相关劳动力感兴趣并为从事STEM相关工作做好准备方面，商业和行业劳动力可以发挥什么作用？3)鉴于我们当前的课堂和国家反映出的人口结构变化，有什么有效和富有成效的方式来确保通过让代表人数不足的潜水员参与STEM项目和职业来扩大参与度？

This project will advance efforts of the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program to better understand and promote practices that increase students' motivations and capacities to pursue careers in fields of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) by engaging in hands-on field experience, laboratory/project-based entrepreneurship tasks and mentorship experiences.The proposed project, Preparing African American Males for Energy and Education (PAAMEE), is an ITEST Strategies project designed to expose, motivate and prepare African American males for technical careers and post-secondary education in the Power Generation and Renewable Energy industries. The project will engage 240 Metropolitan Detroit African American males, grades 10-12, in project based out-of-school time science and engineering activities that teach concepts related to the production and storage of energy. Using a cohort model, students will engage in STEM educational programming, college readiness and youth mentoring over a 15 month period. In addition to technical concept mastery, students will be meeting business professionals, entrepreneurs and university students pursing degrees in science and engineering.The major content areas of the program includes project based engineering and leadership courses, career exploration activities, and a community service opportunity. Each course will be structured to meet the learning needs of high school students. Courses will rotate throughout the campuses of Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program with partners located in the Detroit Metropolitan Area, Michigan State University (Lansing, MI) and Michigan Technological University (Houghton, MI) A key aspect of the program is to provide the opportunity for student participants to engage in academic and technical work in the university environment. The program will conduct a mixed methods research study to directly address three guiding research questions: 1) What coherent sets of experiences effectively and efficiently support student competency, motivation and persistence for productive participation in the STEM-related workforce today or in the future. 2) What roles might business and industry workforce members play in motivating students to become aware of, interested in, and prepared for careers in the STEM-related workforce? 3) Given the shifting demographics reflected in our current classrooms and in our country, what are effective and productive ways to ensure broadening participation by engaging divers underrepresented populations in STEM programs and careers?