MPWG: The Assets Project - After School Success Exploring Technology and Science

明尼苏达科学博物馆（SMM）将开发一个全面的课后计划，这是其“河流女孩”为期四周的生态夏令营的延伸。 该资产项目将使24至48名女孩谁参加了河流女孩营从事两个，12周的课后程序序列，将为他们提供深入的科学接触，技术和工具的多种经验，并有机会与同龄人和榜样谁反映自己的文化身份发展更积极的关系。 该项目的一个特别重点包括以积极和基本的方式将参与者的父母纳入他们的女儿;在博物馆的教育经验。 这种参与旨在帮助父母为女儿的科学和数学教育提供更多的支持。 完成资产项目的女孩将被招募到博物馆的其他科学和数学青少年富集项目。 总体项目和计划设计将基于最近的弹性研究，该研究表明，任何背景的年轻人在成长过程中拥有关键的资产组合，包括个人素质，支持性环境和获得的技能，将有更好的机会过渡到成功和富有成效的成年。

The Science Museum of Minnesota (SMM) will develop a comprehensive after-school program that be an extension of its "RiverGirls" four- week ecology-based summer camp. The ASSETS Project will enable 24 to 48 of the girls who participated in the RiverGirls Camp to engage in two, twelve-week after school program sequences that will provide them with in-depth science contact, multiple experiences with technology and tools, and opportunities to develop more positive relationships with peers and role models who reflect their own cultural identities. A special focus of the project includes incorporating participants' parents in an active and fundamental way in their daughters; educational experience at the museum. This involvement is designed to help parents provide increased support to their daughters' in science and math education. The girls who complete the ASSETS Project will be recruited into other science and math enrichment programs for youth at the museum. Overall project and program design will be based on recent resiliency research that has shown youth from any background who grow up with a key combination of assets, including personal qualities, a supportive environment, and acquired skills, will have a better chance to make the transition to successful and productive adulthood.