Preparing African American Males for Energy & Education (PAAMEE)

该项目将推进“面向学生和教师的创新技术体验”（ITEST）计划的工作，通过参与实地实践、实验室/项目创业任务和指导经验，更好地理解和促进提高学生在科学、技术、工程或数学（STEM）领域追求职业的动机和能力的实践。拟议的项目“培养非洲裔美国男性接受能源和教育”（PAAMEE）是一项ITEST战略项目，旨在为非洲裔美国男性在发电和可再生能源行业的技术职业和高等教育提供机会、激励和准备。该项目将吸引240名10至12年级的底特律大都会非裔美国男性参与，他们将在课外时间进行科学和工程活动，教授与能源生产和储存相关的概念。使用队列模型，学生将在15个月的时间里参与STEM教育计划、大学准备和青年指导。除了技术概念的掌握，学生将会见商务人士，企业家和大学生攻读科学和工程学位。该计划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。每门课程的结构将满足高中学生的学习需求。课程将在底特律地区大学预科工程项目的校园内轮换，合作伙伴位于底特律大都会区、密歇根州立大学（兰辛，密歇根州）和密歇根州理工大学（霍顿，密歇根州）。该项目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。该项目将开展一项混合方法研究，直接解决三个指导性研究问题：1)哪些连贯的经验能有效和高效地支持学生的能力、动机和毅力，以便在今天或未来参与与stem相关的劳动力。2)企业和行业员工在激励学生意识到、感兴趣并为stem相关劳动力的职业生涯做好准备方面可能发挥什么作用？3)考虑到我们目前的课堂和我们国家所反映的人口结构的变化，通过让不同的未被充分代表的人群参与STEM项目和职业，确保扩大参与的有效和富有成效的方法是什么？

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?