IDPO/WG: CONNECTIONS: Women in Sciences, Engineering, and Math (SEM) Making Connections Between Curriculum, Career, and Personal Development

连接伙伴关系是基于东北大学（NU）和波士顿地区爱国者小道女童子军理事会（PTGSC）之间为期两年的合作。 PTGSC代表波士顿市的8，000多名小学，初中和高中女生，为Connections和NU带来了全女孩计划和性别敏感性的专业知识，其标志性的合作教育计划带来了职业培训和SEM教育的专业知识。 连接将吸引和支持女孩和妇女谁可以在数学和科学方面出类拔萃，并鼓励他们过渡到专业和职业在SEM相关领域。 NU教职员工和学生将与波士顿地区女童子军部队的女孩，他们的部队领导人和他们的老师在NU的计算机俱乐部和波士顿的PTGSC站点的课后活动和夏令营项目中合作。 该计划的主要目标是赋予高中准备女孩，大学准备高中毕业生和职业准备大学毕业生，并为他们在SEM相关领域的未来做好准备。 这需要所有利益攸关方，包括教师及其学生的创造性努力，才能将大量女孩和妇女转变为非传统职业。 连接将针对三个人群：中学女生（第一组）;高中女生（第二组）;和大学本科女生（第三组）。 该计划结合了（1）妇女在工程（WIE）方案和女孩为重点的SEM方案的最佳实践;（2）动手SEM课堂经验与现实世界的设置工作;和（3）结构化的指导计划，支持初中和高中的女孩和本科妇女链接到女教师，女童子军领袖，教师和工作专业人士在SEM领域。 目标人群将通过以下几条途径相互联系： o与一位或多位导师联系：一个结构化的导师计划，将500多名 学生通过电子邮件，涉及部队领导人，职业妇女，家长，大学专业，和NU 跨越三个目标群体的教师。 o使用结构化的电子邮件通信和支持网络，将 计划（课程，SEM活动，指导和辅导学习）。 o参加定期安排的学术和夏季活动， 课程，职业生涯，以及参与者和连接团队成员的个人目标。 每个目标人群都将参加针对特定年龄的活动，这些活动旨在帮助女孩和妇女建立正确的联系，以便成为21世纪世纪SEM专业人员。 这些活动将反映三个主题，将在整个拟议的连接伙伴关系计划整合：课程，职业和个人发展（CCPD）。 中学女生将了解他们正在学习的东西在高中取得成功的重要性;高中女生将通过与大学女性，教师和该领域的专业人士的互动了解SEM职业生涯所涉及的内容;大学女性将为职业生涯做好准备，并更清楚地了解他们未来作为SEM专业人士的机会。 该计划每年将对450多名女孩的生活产生直接影响，在三年资助期内将有近1,000名女孩。 此外，300多名NU女本科生将参加连接，在三年内对大约500名NU学生产生影响。 我们将根据需要寻求额外的资金，以维持NSF资金以外的计划。

The Connections Partnership is based on a two-year collaboration between Northeastern University (NU) and the Boston-area Patriots' Trail Girl Scout Council (PTGSC). PTGSC, who represents over 8,000 elementary, middle, and high school girls in the City of Boston, brings expertise in all-girl programs and gender sensitivity to Connections and NU with its signature cooperative education program brings expertise in career training and SEM education. Connections will attract and support girls and women who can excel in math and science and encourage them to make the transition into majors and careers in SEM-related fields. NU faculty, staff and students will team with girls in Boston-area Girl Scout troops, their troop leaders, and their teachers in after-school activities and summer day camp programs at Computer Club Houses at NU and at the PTGSC site in Boston. The major goal of the program is to empower high school ready girls, college ready high school graduates, and career ready college graduates and prepare them for a future in SEM-related fields. It takes the creative efforts of all stakeholders, including classroom teachers and their students, to shift a significant number of girls and women into careers that have not been traditional for them. Connections will target three populations: middle school girls (Group 1); high school girls (Group II); and undergraduate college women (Group III). The program combines best practices of (1) Women in Engineering (WIE) programs and girl-focused SEM programs; (2) hands-on SEM classroom experiences with work in real-world settings; and (3) a structured mentoring program that supports middle and high school girls and undergraduate women linked to women faculty, Girl Scout leaders, teachers, and working professionals in SEM fields. The target population will connect with one another through several paths: o Contact with one or more mentors: A structured mentoring program that groups more than 500 students over e-mail, involving troop leaders, professional women, parents, college majors, and NU faculty crossing over all three target populations. o Use of a structured e-mail communication and support network, tying together all elements of the program (curriculum, SEM-activities, mentoring, and coaching to learning). o Participation in regularly scheduled academic and summer activities that connect curriculum, career, and personal goals for participants and members of the Connections team. Each target population will participate in age-specific activities designed to help girls and women make the right connections for successful careers as 21st Century SEM professionals. These activities will reflect the three themes that will be integrated throughout the proposed Connections Partnership program: Curriculum, Career, and Personal Development (CCPD). Middle school girls will understand the importance of what they are learning to succeed in high school; high school girls will understand what SEM careers involve through their interactions with college women, faculty and professionals in the field; and college women will become career ready and have a clearer understanding of their future opportunities as SEM professionals. The program will have a direct impact on the lives of more than 450 girls each year, with almost 1,000 during the three-year funding period. In addition, more than 300 NU undergraduate women will participate in Connections with an impact on approximately 500 NU's students over the three years. We will seek additional funding to sustain the program beyond NSF funding as needed.