Science of Broadening Participation: Promoting the Recruitment of Girls into Science, Technology, and Engineering

该奖项支持一个研究项目，该项目研究自1965年以来为更广泛的年轻人提供的科学和技术教育的改进如何发展成为目前的国家优先事项。这项研究将详细解释这种对多样性的承诺是如何、何时以及为什么发展起来的，从而永久地重塑了我们现代的科学、工程、教育和育儿文化。主要成果包括一本学术著作，招聘工程师简和天体物理学家艾米：美国STEM倡导女孩，1965年至今，加上学术论文，公开演讲，教科书和博物馆展览。分析主要基于历史，但借鉴并告知我们对当今科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）的理解。虽然正在支持的项目侧重于为女孩开展的运动的演变，但有待开发的账户将提供对促进其他代表性不足的群体获得机会的平行努力的深入了解，为正在进行的关于STEM多样性的讨论增添历史层面。进行这项研究的研究人员在科学技术史，科学政策研究和现代美国历史的广泛背景下扩展了研究经验。她的研究借鉴了广泛的报告，信件，行政记录和其他文件，从个人和组织，如国家科学基金会，国家工程院，美国大学妇女协会和女童子军。除了评估这些丰富的数据，这项倡议还通过进行中心案例研究和几十次独特的口述历史采访来探索新的领域，采访对象是向女孩开放STEM运动的关键人物。研究人员将在多个图书馆和档案馆进行口述历史采访和档案研究。她将向学术界和普通观众发表演讲，举办一个关于STEAM（A表示艺术）和多样性的博物馆展览，并开发K-12课程包和面向年轻人的访问材料。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

This award supports a research project that studies how improvements since 1965 in scientific and technical education for a broader range of young people has grown into what is currently a national priority. The study will explain in detail how, when, and why this commitment to diversity developed, permanently reshaping our modern cultures of science, engineering, education, and child-rearing. Major outcomes include an academic book, Recruiting Engineer Jane and Astrophysicist Amy: American STEM Advocacy for Girls, 1965-Present, plus scholarly papers, public presentations, a textbook, and museum exhibit. Analysis is primarily grounded in history, but draws on and informs our understanding of present-day outreach in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Although the project being supported focuses on the evolution of campaigns for girls, the account to be developed will provide insights into parallel efforts to promote access for other under-represented groups, adding historical dimension to ongoing discussions of diversity in STEM. The researcher conducting the study has extended research experience in the history of science and technology, science-policy studies, and the broad context of modern U.S. history. Her study draws on a wide range of reports, letters, administrative records, and other documentation from individual actors and organizations, such as the National Science Foundation, National Academy of Engineering, American Association of University Women, and Girl Scouts. Beyond assessing this wealth of data, this initiative explores new territory by conducting central case-studies and several dozen unique oral-history interviews with key figures in the movement to open STEM to girls. The researcher will conduct oral-history interviews and archival research across multiple libraries and archives. She will deliver talks to both academic and general audiences, mount a museum exhibit on STEAM (the A denotes the Arts) and diversity, and develop K-12 curriculum packets and exhibit-visitor materials.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.