Conference: 2023 STEM Summer Camp for Indigenous Middle School Students in Utqiagvik, Alaska

工程劳动力发展（EWD）是国家的优先事项，对于阿拉斯加土著社区培养下一代工程师尤其重要，因为他们能够应对气候变化加速带来的日益严峻的基础设施挑战。EWD应该在尽可能早的年龄开始，向K-12学生灌输STEM的兴趣和概念。宾夕法尼亚州立大学（PSU）将于2023年夏季在阿拉斯加Utqiaġvik为土著中学生组织为期7天的STEM研讨会，重点是工程。研讨会将由PSU土木工程教授肖明博士组织和领导，并由两名PSU土木工程专业本科生协助。研讨会是与Utqiaġvik的Iḷisaġvik学院合作举办的，学院将提供会议场地和后勤服务。参与者将包括20名中学生，主要来自阿拉斯加北坡自治市（NSB）的村庄。学生将参与七项实践小组活动。我们将邀请一名当地的长者参与，让参加者同时学习西方的科学和工程知识及传统知识。在阿拉斯加Utqiaġvik举办的研讨会将支持中学生对STEM，特别是工程学的兴趣的发展，最终目标是培养未来的北极STEM科学家和工程师。参加者也将有机会探讨如何将传统知识与西方科学和工程知识联合教授给阿拉斯加原住民中学生。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。

Engineering workforce development (EWD) is a national priority and need that is particularly critical in producing the next-generation engineers in Indigenous communities in Alaska who can address the increasing infrastructure challenges due to accelerated climate change. EWD should start at as early an age as possible to instill STEM interests and concepts in K-12 students. Pennsylvania State University (PSU) will organize a 7-day STEM workshop with a focus on engineering for Indigenous middle school students in Utqiaġvik, Alaska in summer 2023. The workshop will be organized and led by Dr. Ming Xiao, Professor of Civil Engineering (CE) at PSU with the assistance of two PSU CE undergraduate students. The workshop is a collaborative effort with Iḷisaġvik College in Utqiaġvik, and the college will provide meeting space and logistics. Participants will include 20 middle school students, mainly from the villages in the North Slope Borough (NSB), Alaska. Students will participate in seven hands-on group activities. An elder from the local community will be invited to participate so that the western science and engineering knowledge and Traditional Knowledge will be taught together to the participants. The workshop in Utqiaġvik, Alaska will support development of an interest in STEM, and particularly engineering, in middle school students with the ultimate goal of training future Arctic STEM scientists and engineers. The participants will also have an opportunity to explore how Traditional Knowledge and western scientific and engineering knowledge can be co-taught to Indigenous Alaskan middle school students.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.