NSF INCLUDES: Supporting Women Advancing Through Technology

NSF 包括： 支持女性通过技术进步

• 批准号: 1649377
• 负责人: Linda Christopher
• 金额: $ 29.86万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1649377&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; INCLUDES; Supporting; Women; Advancing

The University of California, Irvine will lead this Design and Development Launch Pilot to engage with collaborators from the Orange County CA STEM Initiative, the Orange County CA Department of Education, the Orange County CA Workforce Investment Board, the Jamboree Affordable Housing Communities, the Orangewood Foundation for Foster and Community Youth Services, OCTANE-Technology Incubator, Project Tomorrow and Growth Section. This project was created in response to the Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES) program solicitation (NSF 16-544). The INCLUDES program is a comprehensive national initiative designed to enhance U.S. leadership in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) discoveries and innovations focused on NSF's commitment to diversity, inclusion, and broadening participation in these fields. The INCLUDES Design and Development Launch Pilots represent bold, innovative ways for solving a broadening participation challenge in STEM. The full participation of all of America's STEM talent is critical to the advancement of science and engineering for national security, health and prosperity. Our nation is advancing knowledge and practices to address the computing technology education practices for recruiting, better educating, retaining and graduating a productive STEM workforce. However women who are members of underrepresented minority groups, with low socioeconomic status, historically underperform in STEM and specifically in computing technology. This project, NSF INCLUDES: Supporting Women Advancing Through Technology, has the potential to significantly advance a collaborative approach by a group of organizations to improve the success of poor, underrepresented minority women who are learning computing technology and transitioning to the STEM workforce.The project will demonstrate the outcomes of computer science training for women, particular disenfranchised and underrepresented minority women that may be exiting foster youth services, living in low income housing, and/or having been denied access to programs particularly in technology due to their socioeconomic status. Partnering organizations will design, develop and launch a short-term, intensive training opportunity in computer science for women ages 16 to 34 who are unemployed or underemployed, and who desire to engage in upward career mobility. The program will include a replicable, custom curriculum and an educational approach that will be scalable. A boot camp will teach the fundamentals of Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, SQL, JavaScript, and AngularJS, and prepare participants for a career in web development while enabling them to keep their day jobs and have childcare provided. Educating a randomized sample treatment group of up to 150 women in this launch pilot, the partners will also offer internships and/or job shadows, where participants gain client experience, learn from more experienced developers, and continue to build their portfolios. All of the women in the program will receive information, coaching and exposure to college and career opportunities. Job placement in STEM careers is the outcome goal of this design and development launch pilot.

加州大学欧文分校将领导这次设计与开发启动试点，与来自奥兰治县加州STEM计划、奥兰治县教育部、奥兰治县加州劳动力投资委员会、Jamboree经济适用房社区、Orangewood寄养和社区青年服务基金会、辛烷-技术孵化器、明天项目和成长科的合作者互动。这个项目是为了响应全国工程和科学领域未被充分代表的发现者的学习社区(NSF Includes)计划征集(NSF 16-544)而创建的。INCLUDE计划是一项综合性的国家倡议，旨在加强美国在科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)发现和创新方面的领导地位，重点是NSF对这些领域的多样性、包容性和扩大参与的承诺。Include Design and Development Launch Pilot代表了解决STEM不断扩大的参与度挑战的大胆、创新的方法。美国所有STEM人才的充分参与对于推动科学和工程为国家安全、健康和繁荣服务至关重要。我们国家正在推进知识和实践，以解决计算机技术教育实践，以招聘、更好地教育、留住和毕业具有生产力的STEM劳动力。然而，属于社会经济地位较低的代表不足的少数群体的妇女，在STEM，特别是在计算机技术方面，历来表现不佳。该项目包括：支持妇女通过技术进步，这一项目有可能极大地推动一组组织的合作方法，以提高正在学习计算机技术并过渡到STEM劳动力的贫困、代表性不足的少数族裔妇女的成功。该项目将展示为妇女，特别是可能退出寄养青年服务、生活在低收入住房和/或因其社会经济地位而被剥夺权利和代表性不足的少数族裔妇女提供计算机科学培训的结果。合作组织将为16岁至34岁的失业或未充分就业并希望从事向上职业流动的女性设计、开发和推出短期的计算机科学强化培训机会。该计划将包括可复制的定制课程和可扩展的教育方法。新兵训练营将教授Ruby on rails、HTML、CSS、SQL、JavaScript和AngularJS的基础知识，并为参与者在从事Web开发职业生涯做好准备，同时使他们能够保住自己的日常工作并提供托儿服务。在这一启动试点中，对多达150名女性的随机样本处理小组进行培训，合作伙伴还将提供实习和/或工作影子，参与者将获得客户经验，向更有经验的开发人员学习，并继续建立自己的投资组合。参加该项目的所有女性都将获得信息、指导以及进入大学和职业机会的机会。STEM职业生涯中的就业安置是这次设计和开发发射试点的结果目标。