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

格鲁吉亚Gwinnett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，由NSF资助的STARS Computing Corps计划提供支持，以满足增加坚持信息技术（IT）或IT相关专业的学生数量的需求，特别是那些在计算方面代表性不足的学生（女性，非洲裔美国人，西班牙裔和残疾人）。在其10多年的任期内，TAP计划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小组的经验和工作成果，扩大TAP方案的影响，从而建立一个致力于促进IT推广的社区。为实现这一目标，项目小组将为信息技术外联活动建立一个框架和资料库，并利用它来扩大和维持一个致力于外联的社区。这项计划的目的，是为那些在电脑方面代表性不足的人士，填补差距，并鼓励他们投身资讯科技行业。这项推广电脑参与示范计划，将为资讯科技外展活动制订一个架构，并建立外展资讯科技社群。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建的有趣和引人入胜的研讨会活动。这些讲习班也是TAP学生研究其讲习班推广效果并公布结果的试验平台。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技术咨询方案提供的主要专门知识。该项目将通过在一个公共在线资料库上分享技术咨询方案讲习班的活动来传播这一专门知识，以便任何人都可以利用这些活动进行外联。 最后，一个新创建的校友网络将提供职业发展研讨会，以培养当前的TAP学生，并加强这一示范计划。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

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.