One Community, One Challenge: Pop-Up STEAM Studios

作为加强非正式环境中学习的整体战略的一部分，推进非正式STEM学习（AISL）计划为各种环境中使用的创新资源提供资金。作为可行性研究，该项目将在俄克拉荷马州一个高度贫困的农村县开发和研究一系列艺术包容性的弹出式科学，艺术，技术，工程和数学（STEAM）创客空间。创客空间是图书馆、学校或其他社区空间内的协作工作空间，用于使用高科技和低科技工具进行制作、学习、探索和分享。创客空间将是通过社区规划过程开发的临时研讨会，该过程评估了公民利益攸关方的需求和利益。科学家、艺术家和其他专家将与社区合作，设计一系列主题弹出式创客空间会议。该项目将资源提供者和专家聚集在一起，确定和设计以科学为导向的挑战，从而为小型和农村社区建立协作基础设施和能力。参与者的长期利益包括通过STEAM驱动的制作持续关注公民参与的新方法，这可以促进与科学和艺术有关的新角色身份。（1）一个理论上知情的模型，以建立社区的能力，通过以科学为导向的弹出式创客空间促进公民参与，（2）弹出式STEAM Studio创客空间，（3）对弹出式主持人的培训，以及（4）视觉文档面板和基于网络的数字故事，以传达进展和过程。 项目研究将加强知识建设的过程中开发一个科学为导向的社区挑战，拥抱蒸汽和制作。拟议项目的一个关键贡献将是深入了解社区成员如何围绕设计，记录和促进综合艺术和科学制作活动的共同目标建立共识，以应对和沟通挑战。研究将侧重于参与者通过基于身份的激励行动模型参与决策过程时所扮演的角色。对咨询委员会会议工件和焦点小组数据的分析将使研究人员能够确定集体层面的谈判和共识建立过程，以及与小组参加的每个问题有关的过程。紧急主题（如谈判，共享学习，想法或项目修订，达成共识的不同观点等）将在个人和团体的分析单位，从所有的数据来源，并通过角色认同理论和协商学习教学法的一致的理论镜头进行检查。研究成果应通过为开发合作弹出式创客空间提供模式，为建设基础设施和社区资源能力的努力提供信息。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

As part of its overall strategy to enhance learning in informal environments, the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program funds innovative resources for use in a variety of settings. The project will develop and research, as a feasibility study, a series of art-inclusive, pop-up Science, Art, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEAM) makerspaces in a high-poverty, primarily rural county in Oklahoma. A makerspace is a collaborative work space inside a library, school or other community space for making, learning, exploring and sharing that uses high tech to low tech tools. The makerspaces will be temporary workshops that are developed through a community planning process that assesses the needs and interests of citizen stakeholders. Scientists, artists and other experts will work together with the community to design a series of thematic pop-up makerspace sessions. The project builds a collaborative infrastructure and capacity for small and rural communities by bringing together resource providers and experts to identify and design science-oriented challenges. Long-term benefits for participants include sustained focus on new approaches for civic engagement through STEAM-driven making which could foster new role identities pertaining to science and art. The project deliverables include: (1) a theoretically informed model to build a community's capacity to collaborate toward fostering civic engagement through science-oriented pop-up makerspaces, (2) Pop-Up STEAM Studio makerspaces, (3) training for pop-up facilitators, and (4) visual documentation panels and web-based digital stories to communicate progress and process. Project research will enhance knowledge-building of the process of developing a science-oriented community challenge that embraces STEAM and making. A key contribution of the proposed project will be the generation of insights into how community members establish consensus around the joint goal of designing, documenting, and facilitating integrated art and science making activities to address and communicate the challenge. Research will focus on the roles participants take when engaging in the making process through an identity-based model of motivated action. Analysis of advisory board meeting artifacts and focus group data will allow the researchers to identify processes of negotiation and consensus building at the collective level and in relation to each issue to which the group attends. Emergent themes (such as negotiation, shared learning, idea or project revisions, diverse perspectives coming to consensus, etc.) will be examined across individual and group units of analysis, from all data sources, and through the congruent theoretical lenses of role identity theory and negotiated learning pedagogy. The research outcomes should inform efforts to build infrastructure and capacity of community resources by providing a model for developing collaborative pop-up makerspaces.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.