PGE/PG: Techbridge Planning Grant

位于加利福尼亚州奥克兰的Chabot天文台和科学中心(COSC)将与旧金山湾区教育组织的规划和咨询委员会密切合作。这项工作的目标将是规划一项多年期合作，目的是让初高中女生更多地参与与技术有关的学术和课外活动。计划将与奥克兰联合学区、加州州立大学、海沃德(CSUH)、社区科学资源、劳伦斯·利弗莫尔国家实验室和Autodesk基金会合作完成。计划中的这个项目暂时命名为Techbridge，目的是创造一个学习环境，很可能会成功地让女孩对科技感兴趣。该计划将使用各种战略来建立或加强女孩日常生活中的支持系统，包括女孩的老师、父母、辅导员以及来自行业的榜样和导师。将特别注意收集、分析和应用有关文化对女孩参与技术的影响的数据。在美国最具多样性的城市之一奥克兰，这个问题至关重要，就像在全国的城市中心一样。学生的核心活动将是每个参与的初中和高中的课后俱乐部。每个俱乐部的女孩将与他们学校的两名教师组成一个团队。每个俱乐部将选择一个项目，使用不同的技术应用来帮助解决需求或回答与社区有关的问题。COSC将对参与学校的教师进行强化培训，并对学校辅导员进行培训和互动。将特别注重加强职业探索和技术课程，这是俄勒冈州立大学所有九年级学生的必修课。

The Chabot Observatory & Science Center (COSC), located in Oakland, California, will work closely with a Planning and Advisory Council of educational organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area. The goal of this work will be to plan a multi-year collaboration aimed at increasing the involvement of middle and high school girls in academic and extracurricular activities relating to technology. Planning will be done in collaboration with the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD), California State University, Hayward (CSUH), Community Resources for Science, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories and the Autodesk Foundation. The goal of the project to be planned - tentatively named Techbridge - will be to create a learning environment that is likely to succeed in getting girls interested in technology. The program will use a variety of strategies to create or reinforce support systems across the girls' daily experience and will include the girls' teachers, parents, counselors, as well as role models and mentors from industry. Special attention will be paid to collecting, analyzing, and applying to the program, data regarding the influence of culture on girls' involvement in technology. In Oakland, one of the most diverse cities in the Nation, this issue is critically important, as it is in urban centers nationwide. The core activity for the students will be after-school clubs at each of the participating middle and high schools. Girls in each club will work with a team of two teachers from their school. Each club will choose a project that uses various applications of technology to help address a need or answer questions related to the community. COSC will conduct intensive training for the teachers at the participating schools, and training for and interaction with school counselors. Special focus will be given to enhancing a Career Explorations and Technology course required of all ninth graders in OUSD.