GP-IN: GLOBE Youth Geoscientists Program

GP-IN：GLOBE 青年地球科学家计划

• 批准号: 2023038
• 负责人: Svetlana Darche
• 金额: $ 31.5万
• 依托单位: WestEd
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2023038&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GP; GLOBE; Youth; Geoscientists; Program

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.

GLOBE 青年地球科学家 (GYG) 项目将为非正式 STEM 教育打造一个创新模式，支持各种服务不足的高中生向高等教育和地球科学领域的职业过渡。它将利用科学家开发的 GLOBE 计划（全球学习和观察以造福环境）数据收集协议，提供基于项目的实践科学经验，让年轻人成为为科学知识做出贡献的年轻专业人士。这些体验将与成年 STEM 专业人士的互动、职业探索、大学准备和自我反思活动相结合，所有这些都在安全和支持性的环境中进行。该项目将帮助学生缩小关键差距，获得真正的地球科学经验，以此作为培养科学能力、信心、动力和归属感的手段。此外，大学探索和准备活动将通过提供大学和职业导航技能、参观大学校园、与大学生互动的机会以及与可以协助大学和经济援助申请的组织的联系，为处于教育中关键且脆弱的过渡点（从高中到大学的桥梁）的学生提供支持。目的是支持和激励。该合作伙伴关系将促进科学家、行业专业人士和大学的参与，并通过支持以学生暑期经历为基础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 将与其合作伙伴——加州大学伯克利分校的劳伦斯科学馆 (the Hall) 和学院和职业学院支持网络 (CCASN) 一起实施该项目。该计划将结合全球学习和有益于环境的观察（GLOBE）、职业发展经验、大学准备和青年发展/领导力战略，为加利福尼亚州旧金山湾区东湾地区的即将崛起的老年人建立可复制的夏季地球科学体验，这些人传统上在 STEM 职业中代表性不足，否则在教育生涯的这个关键时刻可能无法获得重要支持。 GYG 利用 GLOBE 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。它还将创建一个明确的大学准备部分，与 IUSE: GEOPATHS 计划的目标一致。 GYG 计划将采用生态系统方法来支持年轻人，让科学家和 STEM 专业人士作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当地学生创造充满 GLOBE 的学习丰富的地球科学研究体验，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，将劳伦斯科学馆纳入其中，并建设该馆的能力，以在这笔赠款之外维持 GLOBE 注入的项目。 3) 为服务不足的年轻人提供丰富的地球科学学习经验的模式，其他非正式学习组织可以效仿这种模式，支持当地学校，提供暑期学习和中学后准备，并实现学校促进大学和职业准备的政策目标。评估部分将有助于记录该模型的组成部分和流程，并有助于建立有关 STEM 代表性不足人群中的年轻人的参与、STEM 职业发展和大学入学、行业参与以及有助于学生取得积极成果的项目特征的知识库。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。