BPC-DP: Developing a Framework and Community for IT Outreach

佐治亚格威内特学院（GGC）将扩大和扩大技术大使计划（TAP）的影响。TAP于2012年在美国国家科学基金会（nsf）资助的STARS Computing Corps项目的支持下成立，旨在解决增加坚持学习信息技术（IT）或IT相关专业的学生数量的需求，特别是那些在计算机领域代表性不足的学生（女性、非洲裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人和残疾人）。在其10多年的任期内，TAP项目已经成功地发展了外展专业知识，为GGC学生和外展研讨会参与者（K-12和大学生）的不同人群提供服务。该项目将通过与公众分享项目团队的经验和工作成果来扩大和扩大TAP计划的影响，从而创建一个致力于促进IT推广的社区。为了实现这一点，项目团队将为IT扩展活动创建一个框架和存储库，并使用它来扩展和维持致力于扩展的社区。这项计划的目的，是要为那些在电脑业未获充分代表的人士，填补空缺，并鼓励他们投身资讯科技业。这项“扩大参与电脑业示范计划”将为资讯科技外展活动制定框架，并建立外展的资讯科技社群。TAP最成功的产品是由TAP学生为不同知识和背景的目标人群创造的有趣和引人入胜的工作坊活动。这些讲习班也是测试平台，在这里，TAP学生研究其讲习班的推广效果，并公布这些结果。其中一些出版物在区域和国家会议上获奖。因此，讲习班的内容和建立讲习班的专门知识是TAP提供的主要专业知识。该项目将通过在公共在线存储库上分享TAP讲习班活动来传播这些专门知识，以便任何人都可以利用它们进行外联。最后，一个新成立的校友网络将提供职业发展研讨会，以培养现有的TAP学生，并加强这一示范项目。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。

Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) will expand and broaden the impact of the Technology Ambassador Program (TAP). TAP was established in 2012 with support from the NSF-funded STARS Computing Corps program to address the need to increase the number of students who persist in information technology (IT) or IT related major, particularly those underrepresented in computing (women, African Americans, Hispanics, and people with disabilities). In its tenure of more than 10 years, the TAP program has been successful in developing the outreach expertise to serve the diverse populations of both GGC students and outreach workshop participants (K-12 and college students). This project will expand and broaden the impact of the TAP program by sharing the project team's experience and work products with the public, thereby creating a community dedicated to promoting IT outreach. To achieve this, the project team will create a framework and repository for IT outreach activities and use it to broaden and sustain a community devoted to outreach. In doing this, the project aims to bridge the gap for persons from groups underrepresented in computing and encourage them to pursue a career in IT. This Broadening Participation in Computing Demonstration Project will develop a framework for IT outreach activities and build outreach IT community. The most successful products of TAP are the fun and engaging workshop activities created by TAP students for target populations with diverse knowledge and backgrounds. These workshops are also testbeds where the TAP students research the effectiveness of their workshops for outreach and publish these results. Several of these publications have earned awards at regional and national conferences. Therefore, the contents of the workshops and the know-how for building them are the main expertise that TAP provides. The project will disseminate this expertise by sharing TAP workshop activities on a public online repository so that anyone can use them for outreach. Finally, a newly created alumni network will provide career development workshops to nurture the current TAP students and strengthen this exemplary program.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.