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

乔治亚格温尼特学院(GGC)将扩大和扩大技术大使计划(TAP)的影响。TAP成立于2012年，得到了NSF资助的STAR计算团队计划的支持，旨在解决增加坚持信息技术(IT)或与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计划成功地发展了推广专业知识，以服务于GGC学生和推广研讨会参与者(K-12和大学生)的不同人群。该项目将通过与公众分享项目团队的经验和工作产品，扩大和扩大TAP计划的影响，从而创建一个致力于促进IT外展的社区。为实现这一目标，项目组将为信息技术外展活动创建一个框架和储存库，并利用它来扩大和维持一个致力于外展的社区。通过这样做，该项目旨在弥合计算机行业代表性不足群体的差距，并鼓励他们在IT领域追求职业生涯。这一扩大计算参与度的示范项目将为信息技术推广活动制定一个框架，并建立信息技术推广社区。TAP最成功的产品是由TAP学生为具有不同知识和背景的目标人群创造的有趣和引人入胜的研讨会活动。这些讲习班也是试验台，TAP的学生在这里研究他们的讲习班的推广效果，并发布这些结果。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技术诀窍是TAP提供的主要专业知识。该项目将通过在公共在线储存库上分享技术援助方案讲习班活动来传播这一专门知识，以便任何人都可以将其用于外联。最后，一个新创建的校友网络将提供职业发展研讨会，以培养目前的TAP学生，并加强这一模范计划。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.