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

鼓励和支持女性创作和传播 STEM 媒体的会议

• 批准号: 2231898
• 负责人: Cynthia Lopez
• 金额: $ 7.5万
• 依托单位: NEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION
• 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: 2022-08-01 至 2023-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2231898&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: conference; encourage; support; women; creating

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.

在STEM媒体和娱乐部门，妇女的代表性都很低。在电影业的高级职位（导演、编剧、执行制片人、摄影师等）中，妇女仅占21%。根据最近的一项研究。这个小型会议直接讨论了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：女性讲故事者探索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的基础设施; 2）加强媒体，娱乐和STEM领域妇女之间的联系。议程包括STEM学科和媒体的思想领袖的主题演讲，行业领袖小组，青年记者采访以及电影制片人和科学家问答的电影放映。会议将是一个混合活动，以便最大限度地接触更广泛的受众。预计将有300名现场和1000多名虚拟与会者来自纽约电影电视女性协会的广泛会员以及娱乐和媒体领域的100多个合作伙伴组织，包括黑人公共媒体、布朗女孩黑帮、Firelight Media、ReelAbilities和全国拉丁裔独立制片人协会。 会议之后将根据会议召开情况出版一份出版物，其中包括主题演讲、简短的小组讨论、额外的采访和行业代表性数据分析。此外，还将为高中和大学编制和分发侧重于STEM和电影合作的课程指南。 会后将对与会者进行定量调查，以收集关于会议影响的数据。 应提出的问题包括： 参加会议的妇女建立了哪些新的专业联系？在STEM相关媒体制作和发行的工艺方面学到了什么？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？ 会议组织者将进行更多分析，以规划会后战略，支持和建设STEM基础设施中的妇女。 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STEM学习经验的获取和参与;（c）推进非正式环境中STEM学习的创新研究和评估;（d）促进非正式环境中STEM学习的创新研究和评估。以及（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。