EAGER: MAKER: Developing Digital Makers in the Coding Makerspace to Include Boys of Color in Computer Science Learning and Cybersecurity Workforce Development

EAGER: MAKER：在编码创客空间中培养数字创客，让有色人种男孩参与计算机科学学习和网络安全劳动力发展

• 批准号: 1723289
• 负责人: Phillip G Eaglin PhD
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Changing Expectations Corp
• 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: 2017-09-01 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1723289&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; MAKER; Developing; Digital; Makers

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). The Coding Makerspace is providing hands-on digital maker projects and support for boys of color to earn certification in Python, the computer programming language related to cybersecurity. The Makerspace is also exposing boys of color ages eight and above to research-based and best practices in computing and cybersecurity education. Additionally, the Makerspace is collaborating with local cyber security companies to gain real-world experience through shadowing and/or field placement opportunities. As a result, the Makerspace is addressing the longstanding underrepresentation of racially diverse students in computer science and increasing their interest in cybersecurity opportunities in higher education, employment, and entrepreneurship.The Coding Makerspace has great potential to advance knowledge on ways to achieve the goals of equity, diversity, access, and inclusion of racially diverse students in computer science education. The Makerspace is providing boys of color with that support to be creators, not consumers, of computing and cybersecurity innovations that will contribute to society. The project is also facilitating the development of new knowledge on how to broaden the impact of the hands-on computer science education needed to increase racially diverse student interest and cybersecurity workforce preparation. In addition, the Makerspace is addressing the increasing need for all students, particularly underrepresented young men of color, to prepare for the expected growth of cybersecurity jobs that protects the country's national security.

该项目将推进学生和教师创新技术体验（ITEST）计划的努力，以更好地理解和促进提高学生在科学，技术，工程或数学（STEM）领域追求职业生涯的动机和能力的做法。 Coding Makerspace正在为有色人种的男孩提供动手数字制作项目和支持，以获得与网络安全相关的计算机编程语言Python的认证。 创客空间还让8岁及以上的有色人种男孩接触到计算和网络安全教育方面基于研究的最佳实践。 此外，创客空间正在与当地的网络安全公司合作，通过阴影和/或现场安置机会获得真实世界的经验。 因此，创客空间正在解决计算机科学领域种族多样性学生长期代表性不足的问题，并提高他们对高等教育、就业和创业中网络安全机会的兴趣。编码创客空间具有很大的潜力，可以推动知识的发展，以实现公平、多样性、访问和包容种族多样性学生的目标。 创客空间正在为有色人种提供支持，让他们成为计算机和网络安全创新的创造者，而不是消费者，为社会做出贡献。该项目还促进了关于如何扩大计算机科学实践教育影响的新知识的发展，这些教育是提高种族多样性学生兴趣和网络安全劳动力准备所必需的。 此外，创客空间正在解决所有学生，特别是代表性不足的有色人种年轻人日益增长的需求，为保护国家安全的网络安全工作的预期增长做好准备。