A conference to encourage and support women creating and distributing STEM media

在STEM媒体和娱乐行业，女性都明显没有代表。根据最近的一项研究，女性仅占电影高层职位（导演、编剧、执行制片人、摄影师等）的21%。这个小型会议直接讨论如何扩大以妇女和女孩为中心的STEM媒体和娱乐内容的数量。创意劳动力峰会：女性故事讲述者探索STEM将于2022年9月在纽约市和在线（混合）举行。会议的目标是：1)鼓励建立基础设施，支持以妇女和女孩为中心的非正式STEM教育电影、数字和电视内容的创作和发行；2)加强媒体、娱乐领域的女性和STEM领域的女性之间的联系。议程包括STEM学科和媒体的思想领袖的主题演讲，行业领袖的小组讨论，青年记者的采访，以及电影制作人和科学家的电影放映。这次会议将是一次混合活动，以便最大限度地接触到更广泛的听众。预计将有300名面对面和1000多名虚拟与会者来自纽约女性电影和电视协会的广泛会员和100多个娱乐和媒体合作伙伴组织，包括黑人公共媒体、棕色女孩Doc Mafia、火光媒体、ReelAbilities和全国拉丁裔独立制片人协会。会议之后将出版一份基于会议的出版物，其中包括主题演讲、小组讨论节选、额外访谈和行业代表性数据分析。此外，将为高中和大学开发和分发一份以STEM和电影合作为重点的课程指南。会议结束后将对与会者进行定量调查，以收集关于会议影响的数据。要问的问题包括：参加会议的女性建立了哪些新的职业关系？与STEM相关的媒体制作和发行工艺学到了什么？是否与参与者当前领域/网络之外的参与者建立了新的有意义的联系？会议组织者将在规划会后战略以支持和建设STEM基础设施中的妇女方面进行进一步分析。这个小型会议项目由推进非正式STEM学习（AISL）计划资助，该计划旨在(a)推进非正式环境中STEM学习的设计和开发的新方法和基于证据的理解；(b)提供多种途径，以扩大获得和参与STEM学习经验的机会；(c)推进非正式环境中STEM学习的创新研究和评估；(d)让所有年龄段的公众在非正式环境中学习STEM。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

In both the STEM media and entertainment sectors women are significantly unrepresented. Women account for only 21% of the upper-level positions in film (directors, writers, executive producers, cinematographers, etc.) according to a recent study. This small conference directly addresses how to expand the volume of STEM focused media and entertainment content centered on women and girls. The Creative Workforce Summit: Women Storytellers Explore STEM will be held in New York City and online (hybrid) in September 2022. The goal of the conference is to 1) encourage an infrastructure of support for the creation and distribution of informal STEM educational film, digital, and television content that is centered on women and girls and 2) to strengthen ties between women in media, entertainment, and women in STEM fields. The agenda includes keynote addresses by thought leaders in STEM disciplines and media, panels of industry leaders, a youth journalist interviews, and film screenings with filmmaker and scientist Q&As. The conference will be a hybrid event to allow for the greatest access to a broader audience. The projected 300 in-person and 1000+ virtual attendees will be drawn from New York Women in Film and Television’s extensive membership and 100+ partner organizations in entertainment and media, including Black Public Media, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, Firelight Media, ReelAbilities, and the National Association of Latino Independent Producers. The conference will be followed by a publication based on the convening featuring the keynotes, abridged panel discussions, additional interviews, and industry representation data analysis. In addition, a curriculum guide for high schools and colleges focused on STEM and film collaborations will be developed and distributed. A post conference quantitative survey will be conducted with conference participants to gather data on the impacts of the conference. Questions to be asked include: What new professional connections were made by women attending the conference? What was learned related to the craft of STEM related media production and distribution? Were new and meaningful connections made with participants outside the participant’s current field/networks? Additional analysis will be done by the organizers of the conference in planning post-conference strategies for supporting and building the women in STEM infrastructure. This small conference project is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which seeks to (a) advance new approaches to and evidence-based understanding of the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments; (b) provide multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences; (c) advance innovative research on and assessment of STEM learning in informal environments; and (d) engage the public of all ages in learning STEM in informal environments.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.