MPWG: Internet Explorers: Using New Technolgies to Encourage Women Toward SEM Careers

读完三年级的高中女生将在暑假期间在爱荷华州立大学(ISU)校园里呆上八周，在那里她们将研究编程方法，并为互联网开发生物和物理科学、工程和数学(SEM)单元。这些单元将被设计成让中学女孩在这些领域探索职业。暑期研究实习生将由一个由四名女研究生组成的团队指导，她们在计算机方面表现出能力，接受过课件开发方面的培训，并在扫描电子显微镜相关领域。第五名中等教育女研究生将担任该团队的顾问，提供课程内容、教育内容和对目标中学生的影响方面的专业知识。虽然研究生妇女的经历也将促进她们的专业发展，但将通过以下方式实现增加女孩参加环境管理的主要目标：开发吸引中学女孩进入环境管理的计算机因特网探索包；培训高中女孩使用计算机技术设计和开发探索包，这将是她们在执行支助大学校园暑期研究实习的重点；使用执行支助股的研究生妇女每天监督探索包的开发过程，为她们的研究生院经验增加一个特殊方面；与中学教育专家合作以达到预期的效果；通过互联网传播开发的包；通过在教育期刊、教育工作者会议、中学女孩职业探索活动以及女童子军和4-H等社区团体的公告，向全州教育机构宣传这些随时可用的免费资源包；通过向面向教育的新闻组提供说明，以及通过在关于教育、计算机和性别问题的会议上的报道，在全国范围内宣传该项目及其产品。

High school girls who have completed their junior year will spend eight weeks during the summer on the Iowa State University (ISU) campus where they will research programming methods and develop biological and physical science, engineering, and mathematics (SEM) units for the Internet. These units will be designed to get middle school girls to explore careers in those areas. The summer research interns will be directed by a team of four female graduate students who have demonstrated ability in computers, are trained in courseware development, and are in SEM-related fields. A fifth female graduate student in secondary education will work as consultant to the team to provide expertise in curricular content, educational delivery, and impact on the targeted middle school students. Although the graduate women's experiences also will enhance their professional development, the primary goal of increasing girls' participation in SEM will be accomplished through the following: developing computer Internet explorations packages that will attract middle school girls to SEM; training high school girls in the use of computer technology to design and develop the explorations package, which will be the focus of their summer research internship on the ISU campus; using ISU graduate women in SEM to supervise the explorations package development process on a daily basis, adding a special dimension to their graduate school experience; working with experts in middle school education to achieve the desired impact; disseminating the developed packages through the Internet; publicizing these readily available, no-cost resource packages to statewide education agencies through announcements in education journals, at educator conferences, and at career exploration events for middle school girls and community groups like the Girl Scouts and 4-H; and advertising the project and its product nationwide through notes to education-oriented newsgroups and through reports at conferences on edu cation, computers, and gender issues.