Building Work Experience for Geospatial Analysts and Technicians

为地理空间分析师和技术人员积累工作经验

• 批准号: 1902295
• 负责人: Jennifer Muha
• 金额: $ 29.99万
• 依托单位: Front Range Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-07-01 至 2023-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1902295&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Work; Experience; Geospatial; Analysts

Despite a wealth of geospatial science technician jobs in Colorado, recent graduates face the permission paradox: they cannot get a job without experience, but they cannot get experience without a job. Many employers require at least a year of practical work experience, which is often a significant barrier for recent two-year college graduates. This barrier is especially true for low-income students, because they often work in an unrelated field while completing their coursework. This project will offer students in the Geospatial Science program an opportunity to work with external partners on real-world geospatial projects as they complete degrees and/or certificates. Each year, twenty students will have a paid internship with an industry employer, which will allow students to apply the technical skills acquired through coursework, gain work experience, and build project management, critical thinking, and professional skills. Thus, these work experiences will support learning outcomes in students' courses and increase the employability of graduates. Students will also host active learning workshops for middle and high school students from neighboring school districts that serve a large underrepresented student population. These workshops aim to raise awareness and engage secondary school students in exploring and pursuing technical careers in the geospatial sciences.This project will offer a novel internship approach by providing: 1) traditional, in-person work projects in collaboration with northern Colorado workforce partners; and 2) virtual projects in collaboration with the national ATE GeoTech Center. This project will pilot one of the first virtual internship programs for geospatial community college students in the nation. Geospatial Science students, with oversight from faculty mentors, will build a middle and high school geospatial educational pipeline by hosting active learning workshops using unmanned aerial vehicles. The workshops will introduce students, including young women and underrepresented students, to geospatial education and career paths, with the goal of increasing diversity in the geoscience workforce. The workshops will simultaneously develop middle and high school students' knowledge of geospatial education and careers while providing a near-peer teaching experience for community college students. As part of project dissemination, the project will develop a best practices guide for building virtual geospatial internship program. This project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education program that focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced-technology fields that drive the nation's economy.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.

尽管科罗拉多有大量的地理空间科学技术人员的工作，但最近的毕业生面临着许可悖论：他们没有经验就找不到工作，但他们没有工作就得不到经验。许多雇主要求至少一年的实际工作经验，这通常是最近两年大学毕业生的一个重大障碍。对于低收入家庭的学生来说，这一障碍尤其如此，因为他们在完成学业的同时，经常在一个不相关的领域工作。该项目将为地理空间科学课程的学生提供与外部合作伙伴合作完成学位和/或证书的机会。每年，20名学生将与行业雇主进行带薪实习，这将使学生能够应用通过课程获得的技术技能，获得工作经验，并建立项目管理，批判性思维和专业技能。因此，这些工作经验将支持学生课程的学习成果，并提高毕业生的就业能力。学生们还将为来自邻近学区的初中和高中学生举办积极的学习研讨会，这些学区为大量代表性不足的学生提供服务。 这些工作坊旨在提高认识，并吸引中学生探索和追求地理空间科学的技术职业。该项目将提供一种新颖的实习方法，包括：1）与北方科罗拉多劳动力合作伙伴合作的传统面对面工作项目; 2）与国家ATE地球技术中心合作的虚拟项目。该项目将为全国地理空间社区大学生试行首批虚拟实习计划之一。地理空间科学专业的学生，在教师导师的监督下，将通过举办使用无人驾驶飞行器的主动学习研讨会来建立初中和高中地理空间教育管道。讲习班将向学生，包括青年妇女和代表性不足的学生介绍地理空间教育和职业道路，目的是增加地球科学工作队伍的多样性。这些讲习班将同时发展初中和高中学生的地理空间教育和职业知识，同时为社区大学生提供近同行的教学经验。作为项目传播的一部分，该项目将为建立虚拟地理空间实习计划制定最佳做法指南。 该项目由先进技术教育计划资助，该计划侧重于为推动国家经济的先进技术领域培养技术人员。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。