GP-IN: GLOBE Youth Geoscientists Program

地球仪青年地球科学家（GYG）项目将为非正式STEM教育提供一种创新模式，可以支持各种服务不足的高中学生向中学后教育和地球科学职业的过渡。它将利用科学家制定的地球仪方案-有益于环境的全球学习和观察-的数据收集协议，提供基于项目的实践科学经验，以吸引青年作为年轻专业人员为科学知识做出贡献。这些经验将与成人STEM专业人士，职业探索，大学准备和自我反思活动的互动相结合，所有这些都在安全和支持的环境中进行。该计划将有助于缩小学生获得真实的地球科学经验的关键差距，作为建立科学能力，信心，动力和归属感的手段。此外，大学探索和准备活动将支持学生在他们的教育关键和脆弱的过渡点-从高中到大学的桥梁-通过提供大学和职业导航技能，图尔斯大学校园，与大学生互动的机会，以及与可以协助大学和财政援助申请的组织的联系。目的是支持和激励。该合作伙伴关系将促进与科学家、行业专业人士和大学的接触，并将通过支持基于学生暑期经历的高级项目和大学申请流程，与学生的学年教师建立联系。WestEd及其合作伙伴劳伦斯科学馆（大厅）和学院和职业学院支持网络（CCASN），都在加州大学伯克利分校，将实施这一项目。该计划将结合联合收割机全球学习和观察，以造福环境（地球仪），职业发展经验，大学准备，青年发展/领导战略，以建立一个可复制的夏季地球科学的经验，为上升的老年人在东湾地区的弗朗西斯科湾区在加州州谁是传统上代表性不足的STEM职业生涯，否则谁可能不会得到重要的支持，在这个关键时刻，他们的教育事业。GYG利用地球仪的学生驱动的科学方法，将过去的工作扩展到非正式的夏季学习环境中。它还将创建一个明确的大学准备组成部分，与IUSE：GEOPATHS倡议的目标一致。GYG计划将采取生态系统方法来支持青年，让科学家和STEM专业人员成为生态系统的关键参与者。该项目的目标如下：1）为来自科学领域代表性不足的人口的当地学生创造一个融入GLOBE的学习丰富的地球科学研究经验，以支持他们的大学入学和职业准备。2)扩大WestEd和CCASN之间的密切合作，以包括劳伦斯科学厅，并在该厅建立能力，以维持GLOBE注入的编程超出此赠款。3)为服务不足的青年提供一个学习丰富的地球科学经验的模式，可由其他非正式学习组织复制，以支持当地学校，提供暑期学习和中学后准备，以及实现学校的政策目标，促进大学和职业准备。评价部分将有助于记录该模式的组成部分和流程，并有助于建立关于青年参与STEM、STEM职业发展和大学、行业参与的知识库，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的评估支持影响审查标准。

The GLOBE Youth Geoscientists (GYG) project will produce an innovative model for informal STEM education that can support transitions for diverse underserved high school students to postsecondary education and careers in the geosciences. It will provide hands-on, project-based science experiences using scientist-developed data collection protocols from the GLOBE program — Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment — to engage youth as young professionals contributing to scientific knowledge. These experiences will be coupled with interactions with adult STEM professionals, career exploration, college preparation, and self-reflection activities, all within a safe and supportive setting. The program will help close a critical gap for students to obtain a real geosciences experience as a means to build competence, confidence, motivation, and belonging in the sciences. In addition, college exploration and preparatory activities will support students at a critical and vulnerable transition point in their education — bridging from high school to college — by providing college and career navigation skills, tours to college campuses, opportunities to interact with college students, and links to organizations that can assist with college and financial aid applications. The aim is to support as well as inspire. The partnership will facilitate engagement with scientists, industry professionals, and colleges, and will connect with the students’ school-year teachers by supporting senior projects and college application processes that build on the students’ summer experiences.WestEd, together with its partners, the Lawrence Hall of Science (the Hall) and the College and Career Academy Support Network (CCASN), both at the University of California, Berkeley, will implement this project. The program will combine Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE), career development experiences, college preparation, and youth development/leadership strategies to build a replicable summer geosciences experience for rising seniors in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in California who are traditionally underrepresented in STEM careers and who might otherwise not receive important support at this critical juncture in their educational careers. GYG leverages GLOBE’s student driven approach to science to expand past work into an informal summer learning setting. It will also create an explicit college preparation component, consistent with the goals of the IUSE: GEOPATHS initiative. The GYG program will take an ecosystem approach to supporting youth, engaging scientists and STEM professionals as critical participants in the ecosystem. The goals of the project are as follows: 1) Create a GLOBE-infused learning-rich geoscience research experience for local students from populations underrepresented in the sciences to support their college entry and career readiness. 2) Expand the close collaboration between WestEd and CCASN to include the Lawrence Hall of Science and build capacity at the Hall to sustain GLOBE-infused programming beyond this grant. 3) Provide a model for a learning-rich geoscience experience for underserved youth that can be replicated by other informal learning organizations, in support of their local schools, offering summer learning and postsecondary preparation as well as fulfilling the policy goals of schools that promote college and career readiness. The evaluation component will help document the model’s components and processes and contribute to the knowledge base about engagement of youth from populations underrepresented in STEM, STEM career development and college-going, industry engagement, and program features that contribute to positive student outcomes.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.