Engaging African American Young Women in STEM and Entrepreneurship Through Community-Centered Making
通过以社区为中心的创造让非洲裔美国年轻女性参与 STEM 和创业
基本信息
- 批准号:2148543
- 负责人:
- 金额:$ 124万
- 依托单位:
- 依托单位国家:美国
- 项目类别:Standard Grant
- 财政年份:2022
- 资助国家:美国
- 起止时间:2022-05-01 至 2025-04-30
- 项目状态:未结题
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项目摘要
The project will develop and research a model for engaging high-school-aged African American women from low-income families in STEM-related making and entrepreneurship educational programs. Making is a culture that emphasizes interest-driven learning by doing within an informal, peer-led, and creative social environment. The project will introduce participants to a product design and build cycle, involving three Making disciplines (e.g., computer-aided design, ceramics, and textiles integrated with STEM concepts, skills, and entrepreneurship. New pathways to STEM careers will open for these young women as they make connections among their strengths and interests, and the knowledge and skills they develop in the makerspace. Each of the project’s partners, including the Forge Greensboro makerspace, the Greensboro Housing Authority (providing low-income housing near the Forge), and TERC (a STEM education design and research organization), brings distinct and necessary expertise to the project: the Forge Greensboro makerspace (making and entrepreneurship). Participants will spend about 4 hours a week over 13 weeks in the program. They will start with a mini-design challenge week that provides a brief overview of the design cycle, making, and entrepreneurship, conducted via a mobile maker space in the participants’ community. After this session, participants will choose making disciplines that they wish to explore. Following this initial week, participants will work through a series of design and build sprints and entrepreneurship sessions, which will culminate in a product-pitch-and-feedback community event with a panel of local business people. Mentors from the Forge makerspace will work with participants as they develop their project ideas and designs and support participants in developing appropriate and relevant skills. Based on project research and evaluation, the project will produce a comprehensive multimedia guide aimed at informal learning spaces on designing and implementing a making-and-entrepreneurship program, including how to create partnerships between community-based organizations and makerspaces to engage minoritized youth. The guide and project research will be shared with relevant communities of informal learning researchers and developers, community organizations, and the maker community via journals, conference presentations, and social media.The project will use an iterative, participatory design research (PDR) framework that will bring the participants, young African American women, together with makerspace experts, learning designers, and community leaders to co-create processes and products that reflect the women’s STEM-related interests. The project’s research will address questions regarding participants’ development and the development of the project model: (1) What STEM and entrepreneurship practices do the participants develop, including defining problems, planning and carrying out an investigation/design cycle, using math and computational thinking, designing a solution, communication, and entrepreneurship practices; (2) How do participants come to view their futures, with regard to STEM-related careers and pathways to them? (3) What features of the program hold promise for stimulating and supporting participants learning of STEM and entrepreneurship practices, and awareness of STEM career pathways? and (4) How does the introduction of a cadre of young African American women into the makerspace change the existing makerspace community? The research will use qualitative and quantitative methods such as surveys, analysis of participant artifacts, focus groups, interviews, and ethnographic field observations to iteratively develop the program model and determine how its features affect participants’ STEM-related practices, STEM career awareness, and their views of the future. The project is funded by the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program, which supports projects that build understandings of practices, program elements, contexts, and processes contributing to increasing students' knowledge and interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and information and communication technology (ICT) careers.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.
该项目将开发和研究一种模式,让来自低收入家庭的高中年龄的非洲裔美国妇女参与STEM相关的制作和创业教育计划。制作是一种文化,强调通过在非正式,同伴主导和创造性的社会环境中进行兴趣驱动的学习。该项目将向参与者介绍产品设计和构建周期,涉及三个制造学科(例如,计算机辅助设计,陶瓷和纺织品与STEM概念,技能和企业家精神相结合。 STEM职业的新途径将为这些年轻女性打开,因为她们将自己的优势和兴趣以及在创客空间中发展的知识和技能联系起来。该项目的每个合作伙伴,包括Forge格林斯伯勒创客空间、格林斯伯勒住房管理局(在Forge附近提供低收入住房)和TERC(一个STEM教育设计和研究组织),都为该项目带来了独特和必要的专业知识:Forge格林斯伯勒创客空间(制造和创业)。参与者将在13周内每周花费约4小时参加该计划。他们将从一个小型设计挑战周开始,通过参与者社区中的移动的创客空间,简要概述设计周期、制作和创业。 本次课程结束后,参与者将选择制定他们希望探索的学科。在最初的一周之后,参与者将通过一系列的设计和构建冲刺和创业会议来工作,最终将与当地商界人士一起举办产品推介和反馈社区活动。来自Forge创客空间的导师将与参与者一起开发他们的项目想法和设计,并支持参与者开发适当的相关技能。在项目研究和评价的基础上,该项目将制作一个全面的多媒体指南,旨在为非正式学习空间提供关于设计和实施创业和创业方案的指导,包括如何在社区组织和创客空间之间建立伙伴关系,以吸引少数群体青年参与。该指南和项目研究将通过期刊,会议演示和社交媒体与非正式学习研究人员和开发人员,社区组织和创客社区的相关社区分享。该项目将使用迭代,参与式设计研究(PDR)框架,将参与者,年轻的非洲裔美国妇女,与创客空间专家,学习设计师,与社区领袖共同创建反映妇女STEM相关利益的流程和产品。本项目的研究将针对参与者的发展和项目模型的开发问题:(1)参与者开发了哪些STEM和创业实践,包括定义问题,规划和执行调查/设计周期,使用数学和计算思维,设计解决方案,沟通和创业实践;(2)参与者如何看待他们的未来,关于STEM相关的职业和途径?(3)该计划的哪些特点有望刺激和支持参与者学习STEM和创业实践,以及对STEM职业途径的认识?以及(4)将年轻的非洲裔美国妇女骨干引入创客空间如何改变现有的创客空间社区?该研究将使用定性和定量方法,如调查,参与者工件分析,焦点小组,访谈和人种学实地观察,以迭代开发程序模型,并确定其功能如何影响参与者的STEM相关实践,STEM职业意识以及他们对未来的看法。该项目由学生和教师创新技术体验(ITEST)计划资助,该计划支持建立对实践,计划元素,背景和过程的理解的项目,有助于增加学生对科学,技术,工程,信息和通信技术(ICT)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。
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Ken Rafanan其他文献
A cross-disciplinary approach to teaching data literacy and proportionality
教授数据素养和相称性的跨学科方法
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2012 - 期刊:
- 影响因子:3.2
- 作者:
P. Vahey;Ken Rafanan;Charles Patton;Karen Swan;M. Hooft;Annette Kratcoski;T. Stanford - 通讯作者:
T. Stanford
Investigating Collaborative Innovation in a Virtual World Task
研究虚拟世界任务中的协同创新
- DOI:
10.3217/jucs-017-12-1638 - 发表时间:
2011 - 期刊:
- 影响因子:0
- 作者:
P. Vahey;J. Brecht;Charles Patton;Ken Rafanan;B. Cheng - 通讯作者:
B. Cheng
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