Girl Scouts Episodic Volunteer Pilot for BPC

美国女童子军（GSUSA）提议试行一项女童子军情节志愿者计划（GSEV），该计划将使国家科学基金会（NSF）的计算机和信息科学与工程（CISE）理事会的主要研究员（PI）参与有意义的扩大参与计算（BPC）活动。“间歇性志愿者”是指工作时间较短或重复性的志愿者。作为情景志愿者，CISE PI将与当地女童子军委员会和女童子军成人志愿者部队领导人合作，为全国各地的女童子军提供计算思维，网络安全和编码活动，帮助建立计算支持的科学途径，技术，工程和数学（STEM）职业生涯。GSUSA CS和计算思维活动的课程由GSUSA与Code.org、CodeSpark、Cyber Innovation Center、Design Squad Global、纽约科学院、SciStarter、Vidcode和WGBH/Design Squad Global合作开发。这一试点将确定六个地方女童子军理事会，以测试情景志愿者模式，提供机会测试已确定的采购和参与战略。具体而言，GSEV试点将 1.确定潜在的CS志愿者; 2.开展培训，使志愿者能够有效地领导与社区服务有关的活动; 3.确定需要CS志愿者和导师的女童子军部队; 4.测试和完善一个过程，以轻松匹配和安排CS志愿者与女童军部队或事件的工作; 5.支持开展社区服务活动，并与女孩一起开展徽章工作。这六个试点委员会将招募和参与至少30名NSF资助的PI，以亲自或虚拟方式提供女童子军CS内容，他们将提供至少20个NSF资助的PI提供的计算机科学课程实例（每个实例2-3个情景志愿者），包括部队会议或STEM活动。GSUSA将进行评估，以评估结果。这个项目有可能扩大规模，并达到全国各地的160万女童子军。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已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的支持。

The Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) propose to pilot a Girl Scout Episodic Volunteer program (GSEV) that will engage the National Science Foundation's (NSF's) Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering (CISE) Directorate's Principal Investigators (PIs) in meaningful broadening participation in computing (BPC) activities. An "episodic volunteer" is a volunteer who works for short or reoccurring periods of time. As episodic volunteers, CISE PIs will work with local Girl Scout councils and Girl Scout adult volunteer troop leaders to deliver computational thinking, cybersecurity, and coding activities to Girl Scouts across the country, helping to build pathways to computationally-enabled Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) careers. The curricula for the GSUSA CS and computational thinking activities has been developed by GSUSA in collaboration with Code.org, CodeSpark, Cyber Innovation Center, Design Squad Global, the New York Academy of Sciences, SciStarter, Vidcode, and WGBH/Design Squad Global. This pilot will identify six local Girl Scout councils to test the Episodic Volunteer Model, providing opportunities to test the identified sourcing and engagement strategies. Specifically, the GSEV pilot will 1. Identify potential CS volunteers; 2. Develop training so that volunteers can effectively lead CS-related activities; 3. Identifying Girl Scout troops that need CS volunteers and mentors; 4. Test and refine a process to easily match and schedule the CS volunteers to work with the Girl Scout troop or event; and 5. Support delivery of the CS activities and badge work with girls. The six pilot councils will aim to recruit and engage at least 30 NSF-funded PIs to deliver Girl Scout CS content in person or virtually, and they will provide at least 20 instances of computer science program delivery by NSF-funded PIs (2-3 episodic volunteers per instance), including troop sessions or STEM events. GSUSA will conduct an evaluation in order to assess outcomes. This project has the potential to scale and reach 1.6 million Girl Scouts across the country.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.