NSF INCLUDES: Supporting Women Advancing Through Technology

加州大学欧文分校将领导该设计和开发启动试点项目，与来自橙子县加州STEM计划、橙子县加州教育部、橙子县加州劳动力投资委员会、Jamboree经济适用住房社区、奥兰治伍德寄养和社区青年服务基金会、OCTANE技术孵化器、明日项目和增长部门的合作者进行合作。该项目是为了响应在工程和科学（NSF INCLUDES）计划征集（NSF 16-544）中代表性不足的发现者的学习者社区的全国包容性而创建的。INCLUDES计划是一项全面的国家计划，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。 INCLUDES设计和开发启动试点代表了解决STEM参与挑战的大胆创新方式。 美国所有STEM人才的充分参与对于促进国家安全，健康和繁荣的科学和工程至关重要。 我们的国家正在推进知识和实践，以解决计算技术教育实践的招聘，更好的教育，保留和毕业的生产力干劳动力。 然而，属于代表性不足的少数群体的妇女，社会经济地位低，在STEM，特别是在计算技术方面的表现历来不佳。 该项目，NSF包括：支持妇女通过技术进步，有可能大大推动一组组织的合作方法，以提高贫穷，代表性不足的少数民族妇女谁是学习计算机技术和过渡到STEM劳动力的成功。该项目将展示计算机科学培训的成果，为妇女，特别是被剥夺公民权和代表性不足的少数民族妇女，可能会退出寄养青年服务，生活在低收入住房中，和/或由于其社会经济地位而被剥夺了参加方案的机会，特别是在技术方面。 合作组织将为16至34岁的失业或就业不足妇女以及希望在职业上向上流动的妇女设计、开发和推出一个计算机科学短期强化培训机会。该计划将包括一个可复制的定制课程和一个可扩展的教育方法。一个靴子训练营将教授Ruby on Rails、HTML、CSS、SQL、JavaScript和AngularJS的基础知识，并为参与者在Web开发方面的职业生涯做好准备，同时使他们能够保持日常工作并提供托儿服务。 在此次启动试点中，合作伙伴还将为多达150名女性提供随机样本治疗组，并提供实习和/或工作影子，参与者可以获得客户经验，向更有经验的开发人员学习，并继续建立自己的投资组合。该计划中的所有妇女都将获得信息、指导和接触大学和职业机会。STEM职业的就业安置是这一设计和开发启动试点的成果目标。

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.