Seeds of Success: Empowering Girls in STEM Through Mentoring, Access, and Leadership

成功的种子：通过指导、接触和领导力为 STEM 领域的女孩赋权

• 批准号: 10688067
• 负责人: Giovanna Guerrero-Medina
• 金额: $ 25.5万
• 依托单位: YALE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2027-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10688067
• 关键词: African American; Attitude; Back; Biological Sciences; Career Exploration; Code; Collection; Communities; Community Outreach; Control Groups; Critical Thinking; Development; Disparity; Education; Educational workshop; Engineering; Ethnic Origin; Experimental Designs; Exposure to; Feedback; Female; Friends; Future; Gender; Goals; Grant; Happiness; Hispanic Americans; Intervention; Latina; Latina Population; Leadership; Learning; Measures; Mentors; Motivation; Outcome; Participant; Pathway interactions; Persons; Population; Preparation; Problem Solving; Puerto Rico; Race; Remunerations; Reporting; Research; Rewards; STEM career; STEM field; Schools; Science; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics; Scientist; Self Efficacy; Series; Shapes; Social Identification; Societies; Stereotyping; Structure; Students; Surveys; Talents; Technology; Training; Underrepresented Populations; Underrepresented Students; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Visit; Woman; career; college; computer science; digital; empowerment; experience; follow-up; girls; graduate school; high school; improved; innovation; interest; junior high school; mathematical ability; meetings; member; ninth grade; optimism; outreach; peer; programs; recruit; role model; skills; social bias; success; therapy design; underserved students; volunteer; webinar; women of color

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) degrees provide access to rewarding, highly remunerated careers, and the opportunity to contribute solutions to society’s problems. Unfortunately, Latinas and African American women comprise less than 4% of the current STEM workforce. Gender stereotypes and a lack of relatable role models, mentors, and early exposure to STEM have been suggested to deter middle school girls away from STEM interests. This project will examine the effect of Seeds of Success, an out-of-school intervention designed to inspire girls to consider careers in STEM by countering gender and race stereotypes through relatable role models; promoting STEM self-efficacy through STEM workshops and activities; and encouraging alignment between cultural and STEM identities through community-based STEM projects. A total of 160 girls in grades 7-9 will be recruited every year to participate in mirror programs in Puerto Rico and New Haven, CT, two populations with high percentages of underrepresented and underserved students. Girls will receive mentoring from female STEM professionals from similar racial and ethnic backgrounds and will interact via webinars with additional diverse STEM role models to learn more about STEM careers. In addition, girls will be exposed to engineering, life sciences, and computer science concepts through online and in-person activities and workshops that promote critical thinking. Finally, girls will be empowered to undertake STEM Ambassadors projects that allow them to have an impact on their community through science. We hypothesize that the program will promote gains in STEM interest, self-efficacy and identity—potentially benefiting future career decisions. Effect will be measured with surveys administered before and after the program to participants and a control group. Longer- term follow-up surveys will track sustained impacts on high school graduation, college entrance, and choice of major. In addition to the 800 girls that the program will impact directly, at least 20,000 additional students and members of the community will be impacted through the STEM Ambassadors projects and the female STEM role model webinars that will be shared live and on Youtube. Thus, by implementing these culturally-relevant, asset-based STEM engagement strategies, Seeds of Success will improve the STEM outcomes of girls in high- need communities and retain the diverse talent we need in the 21st century.

项目摘要/摘要 科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)学位提供了获得回报和高薪的途径 职业，以及为社会问题提供解决方案的机会。不幸的是，拉丁裔和非洲人 美国女性在目前STEM劳动力中所占比例不到4%。性别陈规定型观念和缺乏 相关的榜样、导师和早期接触STEM被认为可以阻止中学女生 远离STEM的利益。这个项目将检验成功种子的效果，这是一种校外干预 旨在鼓励女孩考虑在STEM就业，通过以下方式对抗性别和种族刻板印象 可联系的榜样；通过STEM讲习班和活动促进STEM自我效能；以及鼓励 通过以社区为基础的STEM项目，使文化特性和STEM特性保持一致。共有160名女孩参加了 每年将招募7-9年级的学生参加波多黎各和康涅狄格州纽黑文的镜像项目 代表不足和服务不足的学生比例较高的人群。女孩们将得到指导 来自相似种族和民族背景的女性STEM专业人员，并将通过网络研讨会与 其他不同的STEM榜样，以了解更多关于STEM职业的信息。此外，女孩将接触到 通过在线和面对面的活动和研讨会提供工程、生命科学和计算机科学概念 这促进了批判性思维。最后，女孩将有权开展STEM大使项目， 让他们通过科学对他们的社区产生影响。我们假设该计划将促进 STEM兴趣、自我效能感和认同感的提高--可能有利于未来的职业决策。效果将是 通过对参与者和对照组在项目前后进行的调查进行测量。更长时间- 学期跟踪调查将跟踪对高中毕业、大学入学和选择大学的持续影响 少校。除了该计划将直接影响的800名女孩外，至少还有2万名额外的学生和 社区成员将通过STEM大使项目和女性STEM受到影响 将在YouTube上现场分享的榜样网络研讨会。因此，通过实施这些与文化相关的， 基于资产的STEM参与战略，成功种子将改善高中生女孩的STEM结果 我们需要社区，并留住我们在21世纪所需要的多样化人才。

项目成果

Seeds of Success: Empowering Latina STEM Girl Ambassadors Through Role Models, Leadership, and STEM-Related Experiences.

• DOI: pii: https://www.jstemoutreach.org/article/88349-seeds-of-success-empowering-latina-stem-girl-ambassadors-through-role-models-leadership-and-stem-related-experiences
• 发表时间: 2023-09
• 期刊: Journal of STEM outreach
• 作者: Hernández-Matías L;Díaz-Muñoz G;Guerrero-Medina G
• 通讯作者: Guerrero-Medina G