GP-UP Ocean Research College Academy Engagement in Authentic Geoscience Learning Ecosystems (ORCA-EAGLE)

美国对STEM教育的需求持续上升，但同样重要的是，需要一种催化剂来吸引所有学生走上STEM道路，这一点与以往一样重要。在所有学科中加速使用数据，进一步需要创新教育，消除STEM领域的传统障碍。此外，在高中缺乏接触海洋科学（和其他地球科学学科）的机会，限制了该领域未来的劳动力和劳动力的潜在多样性。埃弗雷特社区学院的海洋研究学院-参与真实学习生态系统（ORCA-EAGLE）项目将通过让高中毕业生在萨利希海进行一整年的海洋学研究，提高对地球科学的兴趣和劳动力技能。通过接触海洋科学和合作者，通过有意识地努力吸引不同的学生群体，ORCA-EAGLE将创建一个模范教育计划，增加社会对受海洋影响的基本地球过程的理解。该项目的目标是通过与大数据的互动，并与利用萨利希海大型地球科学相关数据流的职业专业人士建立联系，增加高中生对地球科学和劳动力的接触。吸引和招收不同学生群体的机会围绕着消除对STEM感兴趣的专业的排斥性做法。扩大地球科学生成数据的使用，重新定义传统的数学途径，可能是进一步吸引那些历史上被数学准备排除在外的人的一种方式。ORCA-EAGLE的目标是建立并支持每年一批学生参与暑期地球科学研究，并持续到高中最后一年，同时也使参与者能够使用在萨利希海收集的大数据集，使他们参与管理，编码和数据可视化应用。该项目还将通过不断扩大的地球科学学习生态系统，将参与者与在萨利希海使用大数据的科学家联系起来，从而提高专业技能。重要的是，该项目将通过应用统计、建立信心、合作和指导，扩大传统上得不到充分服务的高中生在地球科学领域的积极参与。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。

The nation's need for STEM education continues to rise, yet the equally important need for a catalyst to attract all students to STEM pathways is as important as ever. The acceleration of the use of data across all disciplines furthers the need for innovative education that removes traditional barriers to STEM fields. Furthermore, the lack of exposure to ocean sciences (and other geoscience disciplines) in high school limits the future workforce in the field and the potential diversity of that workforce. Everett Community College’s Ocean Research College Academy - Engagement in Authentic Learning Ecosystems (ORCA-EAGLE) project will increase both geoscience interest and workforce skills by engaging high school seniors in oceanographic research in the Salish Sea for an entire year. Through exposure to ocean sciences and collaborators and through deliberate efforts to engage a diverse student population, ORCA-EAGLE will create a model educational program that increases societal understanding of basic Earth processes influenced by the oceans.The goal of this project is to increase high school student exposure to the geosciences and the workforce through interaction with big data and connecting to career professionals utilizing large geoscience related data streams in the Salish Sea. Opportunities to attract and recruit a diverse group of students revolves around removing exclusionary practices for STEM interested majors. Expanding the use of geoscience generated data to reconceptualize the traditional mathematics pathway may be a way to further engage those who have been historically excluded by mathematical preparation. ORCA-EAGLE’s objectives are to establish and support an annual cohort of students who engage in summer focused geoscience research that continues throughout the senior year of high school while also empowering participants’ use of big data sets collected in the Salish Sea, engaging them in management, coding and data visualization applications. The program will also enhance professional skills by connecting participants to scientists who use big data in the Salish Sea through the expanding Geoscience Learning Ecosystem. Importantly, this project will expand the active participation of traditionally underserved high school students in geoscience fields through applied statistics, confidence building, collaboration and mentoring.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.