EPWG: Linking Girls and Their Technological Futures Through Informal Science

9453136 Crouch为了确保女性将成为科学界有效和不可或缺的一部分，西部三合会科学与数学联盟（WTSAMA），北卡罗莱纳州全州系统倡议（NC SSI）的区域合作伙伴关系，已经建立了商业，工业，大学，社区学院和学校系统领导人的伙伴关系，为广泛的倡议提供方向，能量，招募，鼓励，支持学生在科学和数学方面的参与和成就。WTSAMA合作伙伴的投入为该项目的规划和继续监测奠定了坚实的基础，以确保工作的一致性和质量。项目GET SET， GO （Girls & Educators Teaming in Science Education）将专注于四个主要目标：(1)在WTSAMA中学的教师、家长和学校管理人员中建立意识，提高期望，并改变他们的日常做法，从而确保平等获得科学机会和教育；(2)通过同侪辅导、跨年龄教学和角色示范等方式架起科学教育水平的桥梁；(3)在每所学校内创造一种物质、社会和心理环境，以加强妇女在科学中的重要性和相关性；(4)研究、定位、修改/设计实践科学活动，以补充科学课程，并促进所有学生在课堂上的平等参与。这些目标将与特别适合该区域需要和人口的活动相配合。活动包括性别平等培训和科学研究教师学院、家长夜间演讲和活动、星期六科学专题讨论会和科学妇女研究计划。这些活动应增加学生、教师、家长和管理人员对科学的兴趣和参与，并创造一个支持和鼓励年轻妇女在科学及相关领域学习和从事职业的环境。因为这个地区在微观上代表了整个州，所以这个项目可以作为全州实施的典范。WTSAMA及其主要合作者提供了确保项目成功的基本运营结构和支持网络。GET SET， GO以当前成功的项目为基础，引入新的活动和机会，创造一个有凝聚力的整体。计划在区域、州和国家各级广泛传播。＊＊＊

9453136 Crouch To ensure that women will be an effective and integral part of the scientific community, the Western Triad Science and Mathematics Alliance (WTSAMA), a regional partnership in the North Carolina Statewide Systemic Initiative (NC SSI), has forged a partnership of business, industrial, university, community college, and school system leaders to provide direction, energy for a broadly based initiative to recruit, encourage, and support students to participate and achieve in science and mathematics. Input from the WTSAMA collaborative partners has formed a solid ground for the planning of this project as well as for continued monitoring to ensure consistency and quality of effort. Project GET SET, GO (Girls & Educators Teaming in Science Education) will focus on four major objectives: (1) to build an awareness, raise expectations, and change everyday practices among teachers, parents, and school administrators at WTSAMA middle schools, thus assuring equal access to opportunities and education in science; (2) to bridge the educational levels in science through peer mentoring, cross-age teaching, and role modeling; (3) to create a physical, social, and psychological environment within each school that reinforces the importance and relevance of women in science; and (4) to research, locate, modify/design hands-on science activities which complement the science curriculum and are adapted to promote equal participation of all students in the classroom. These objectives are to be matched with activities specifically suited to the needs and population of the region. Activities are to include the Teacher Institute for Gender Equity Training and Science Research, Parents' Night Presentations and Activities, Saturday Science Symposiums, and the Science Women's Studies Program. These activities should increase the interest and involvement of students, teachers, parents, and administrators in science, and create an environment that supports and encourages young wome n to pursue studies and careers in science and related areas. Because this region is representative, in microscale, of the entire state, this project serves as a model for statewide implementation. The WTSAMA and its key collaborators provide an essential operational structure and support network that ensures project success. GET SET, GO builds on current successful programs, and introduce new activities and opportunities, to create a cohesive whole. Extensive dissemination is planned at regional, state, and national levels. ***