One Community, One Challenge: Pop-Up STEAM Studios

作为加强非正式环境学习总体战略的一部分，推进非正式STEM学习（AISL）项目为各种环境中使用的创新资源提供资金。作为一项可行性研究，该项目将在俄克拉荷马州一个高度贫困、主要是农村的县开发和研究一系列包含艺术的弹出式科学、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，用于制作、学习、探索和分享，使用高科技到低科技的工具。创客空间将是通过评估公民利益相关者的需求和利益的社区规划过程开发的临时工作坊。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。该项目通过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，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蒸汽驱动的制作持续关注公民参与的新方法，这可以培养与科学和艺术有关的新角色身份。项目可交付成果包括：(1)通过科学导向的弹出式创客空间建立社区协作能力的理论知情模型，以促进公民参与；(2)弹出式STEAM工作室创客空间；(3)弹出式创客主持人培训；(4)可视化文档面板和基于网络的数字故事，以交流进展和过程。项目研究将加强知识建设的过程，以发展科学为导向的社区挑战，包括蒸汽和制造。拟议项目的一个关键贡献将是产生对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达成共识的见解，以应对和交流挑战。研究将侧重于参与者在通过基于身份的动机行为模型参与决策过程时所扮演的角色。对咨询委员会会议成果和焦点小组数据的分析将使研究人员能够确定在集体一级以及与小组参加的每个问题有关的谈判和建立协商一致意见的过程。新兴主题（如谈判，共享学习，想法或项目修订，达成共识的不同观点等）将通过个人和小组分析单位，从所有数据源，并通过角色认同理论和协商学习教学法的一致理论镜头进行检查。研究成果应为基础设施建设和社区资源能力建设提供参考，为开发协作式快闪创客空间提供模式。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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.