Fostering Black and Latinx student STEM efficacy, interests, and identity: A participatory study of STEM programming and practices at one community-based organization

黑人和拉丁裔在STEM劳动力中的代表性不足。 该项目探讨了如何在一个文化定位，以社区为基础的青年发展计划的课程和做法培育和支持黑人和拉丁裔男孩和女孩的干参与。支持STEM和传统上代表性不足的青年的校外活动的研究通常在新创建的学习环境中进行。然而，这个项目去的地方，年轻人已经，市中心拳击健身房。建立将艺术纳入基于性别的STEM研究的知识和理解可能对OST研究和规划的未来产生影响。该项目将探讨校外学习空间如何扩大黑人和拉丁裔青年参与以STEM为重点的学习机会。该项目的参与者是170-250名青少年，年龄8-18岁，他们参与了密歇根州底特律市中心的拳击馆。该项目采用混合方法收集和分析调查数据，访谈数据和视频数据，使用主题和交互分析。该项目的目标是：（1）研究青年如何在非正式环境中学习STEM;（2）推进非正式STEM学习的知识基础;（3）利用学生和从业者驱动的方法，提高参与度，扩大参与，支持学习者参与和理解STEM实践。在学年期间，该计划每天提供两次，每周五天，一小时，在夏季每周五天，每天四小时。该计划的课程是由工作人员和学生合作创建的，可能包括主题和活动，如：3D建模，视频游戏编码，野生动物的环境分析，化学，人工智能/面部扫描，和机器人编程/建设。这个类型4，整合研究与实践，项目由推进非正式STEM学习（AISL）计划资助，该计划支持以下项目：（a）促进研究和实践，考虑非正式STEM学习在STEM的公平和归属方面的作用;（B）促进STEM中的个人和教育成功;（c）推动公众参与科学发现;（d）培养对STEM职业的兴趣;（e）为有效的非正式STEM学习创造和加强理论和经验基础;（f）提高社区活力;和/或（g）加强科学传播和公众对STEM和STEM过程的参与和理解。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。

Black and Latinx people are underrepresented in the STEM workforce. This project examines how curricula and practices in a culturally situated, community-based youth development program nurture and support the STEM engagement of Black and Latinx boys and girls. Often research supporting out-of-school-time (OST) activities in STEM and traditionally underrepresented youth takes place in newly created learning environments. However, this program goes to where the youth are already, the Downtown Boxing Gym. Building knowledge and understandings on the inclusion of arts into gender-based STEM research could have implications for the future of OST research and programming. The project will explore how out of school learning spaces can broaden participation of Black and Latinx youth in STEM focused learning opportunities. Participants in this project are 170-250 youth, ages 8-18, who are involved in the Downtown Boxing Gym in Detroit, Michigan.This project utilizes a mixed methods approach to collecting and analyzing survey data, interview data, and video data using thematic and interaction analyses. The goals of the project are to: (1) examine how youth learn STEM in informal environments; (2) advance the knowledge base of informal STEM learning, and (3) increase belongingness, broaden participation, and support learners' participation in and understanding of STEM practices utilizing a student- and practitioner- driven approach. During the school year, the program is offered twice a day, five days each week, for one hour, and during the summer five days a week, four hours a day. The program curriculum is collaboratively created by staff and students and may include topics and activities such as: 3D modeling, video game coding, environmental analysis of wildlife, chemistry, artificial intelligence/facial scanning, and robotics programing/construction.This Type 4, Integrating Research and Practice, project is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which supports projects that: (a) contribute to research and practice that considers informal STEM learning's role in equity and belonging in STEM; (b) promote personal and educational success in STEM; (c) advance public engagement in scientific discovery; (d) foster interest in STEM careers; (e) create and enhance the theoretical and empirical foundations for effective informal STEM learning; (f) improve community vibrancy; and/or (g) enhance science communication and the public's engagement in and understanding of STEM and STEM processes.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.