Advanced Manufacturing: Girls Can, Too

先进制造：女孩也可以

• 批准号: 2202109
• 负责人: Sara Palmer
• 金额: $ 34.74万
• 依托单位: Kentucky Community & Technical College System
• 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: 2022-07-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2202109&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Advanced; Manufacturing; Girls; Too

Kentucky faces a skilled technical worker shortage that must be addressed if the state is to advance its manufacturing base. Analysis of graduation data in Advanced Manufacturing credentials by Bluegrass Community & Technical College (BCTC) faculty indicates few women graduate in these fields. BCTC’s three-year Girls Can Too Project will address this problem by educating, recruiting and mentoring 80 middle and high school girls into careers relating to Industrial Maintenance Technology (IMT), a key technical field that supplies highly skilled technicians who install, maintain and repair industrial systems equipment. Project activities will develop awareness and learning activities coupled with mentoring interventions for these middle and high school girls and then recruit 10 to 12 high school girls to enroll in dual credit courses that will prepare them for transfer into the IMT program to earn certificates, diplomas or AAS degrees. Mentoring and support by professional women employed in IMT will provide women enrolled in the IMT program with leadership opportunities as near-peer mentors for the middle and high school students participating in the Girls Can Too Project. The broader impacts of this project include support for girls’ engagement and transition into technical fields by strengthening and expanding high school dual credit programs to include IMT preparation courses. The project also supports systemic change in the college’s systems of support, mentoring and industry connections through a female-led mentoring program and a Business and Industry Leadership Team (BILT). The intellectual merit of the project rest on its contribution to a growing field of study that assesses the value of mentoring and support interventions to address gender disparities in STEM fields. College administrators will review project successes and adapt or expand activities to grow enrollment in other technical programs with similar gender disparities so the college can build a diverse skilled technical workforce.The overall goal of the project is to recruit and retain more women in Industrial Maintenance Technology by increasing awareness and providing learning opportunities and mentoring beginning in middle school. Girls and young women will gain access to relevant dual credit courses in high school and have high levels of contact with faculty and industry professionals who are women. Each year, project directors expect 80 students from middle and high schools to participate in program activities supported by two faculty who will lead the program of interventions and support that encompass Saturday engagements at the college’s Advanced Manufacturing campus in Georgetown Kentucky and summer learning experiences that engages them with hands-on activities related to industrial maintenance. High school students who participate in the program will have the opportunity to take four technology-related dual credit courses to prepare for enrollment in the college’s IMT program. IMT faculty will add to their pedagogical skills those strategies needed to engage a more diverse classroom by participating in BCTC’s Cultural Competency course, a semester-long course developed and offered by the college to advance the goals of equity and diversity in teaching and learning. This cultural competency knowledge will be integrated into the IMT classroom to update the curriculum and better meet the needs of a more diverse student body. This project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education program that focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced-technology fields that drive the Nation's economy.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.

肯塔基州面临着熟练技术工人短缺的问题，如果该州要推进其制造业基地，就必须解决这个问题。蓝草社区技术学院（BCTC）教师对先进制造业证书毕业数据的分析表明，很少有妇女在这些领域毕业。BCTC为期三年的女孩也能项目将通过教育、招聘和指导80名初中和高中女生从事与工业维护技术有关的职业来解决这一问题，工业维护技术是一个关键技术领域，为安装、维护和修理工业系统设备的高技能技术人员提供服务。项目活动将为这些初中和高中女生开展提高认识和学习活动，并辅以辅导干预措施，然后招募10至12名高中女生参加双学分课程，为她们转入IMT方案获得证书、文凭或AAS学位做好准备。在IMT就业的专业妇女的指导和支持将为IMT方案注册的妇女提供领导机会，作为参加女孩也能项目的初中和高中学生的近同龄人导师。该项目更广泛的影响包括通过加强和扩大高中双学分方案，包括IMT准备课程，支持女孩参与和过渡到技术领域。该项目还通过女性主导的辅导计划和商业和工业领导团队（BILT）支持学院的支持，指导和行业联系系统的系统性变化。该项目的智力价值在于其对日益增长的研究领域的贡献，该领域评估了辅导和支持干预措施的价值，以解决STEM领域的性别差异。学院管理人员将审查项目的成功，并调整或扩大活动，以增加其他技术项目的入学率，类似的性别差异，使学院可以建立一个多样化的熟练的技术劳动力。该项目的总体目标是通过提高认识，提供学习机会和指导，从中学开始，招募和留住更多的女性在工业维修技术。女孩和年轻妇女将有机会在高中学习相关的双学分课程，并与女性教师和行业专业人员保持高度接触。每年，项目总监预计将有80名来自初中和高中的学生参加由两名教师支持的项目活动，这两名教师将领导干预和支持项目，其中包括周六在该学院位于肯塔基州乔治城的先进制造园区的活动以及夏季学习体验，让他们参与与工业维护相关的实践活动。参加该项目的高中生将有机会参加四门与技术相关的双学分课程，为参加学院的IMT项目做准备。IMT教师将通过参加BCTC的文化能力课程来增加他们的教学技能，这些策略需要参与更多样化的课堂，这是一门由学院开发和提供的为期一个学期的课程，旨在推进教学和学习中的公平和多样性目标。这种文化能力知识将被整合到IMT课堂，以更新课程，更好地满足更多样化的学生群体的需求。该项目由先进技术教育计划资助，该计划侧重于推动国家经济的先进技术领域的技术人员的教育。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。