PGE/SEP: TechGirl: A Website for Middle School Girls Interested in Science and Technology

TechGirl将是一个有趣和动态发展的网站，致力于帮助中学女生学习科学和工程。它的目的是帮助他们了解科学和工程对社会的有益影响，并鼓励他们考虑科学和工程方面可能的职业。这个网站将包含四个主要部分：1)在职业生涯的不同阶段，包括高中、大学、职业生涯的开始和职业生涯的巅峰，包括一个简短的个人简介和对职业生涯中一个特定事件的有趣/有趣的描述。2)关于发展职业的建议，从高中的课程和活动选择到大学和专业选择，最后选择职业。3)谜题/脑筋急转弯，旨在挑战女孩，让她们接触科学和工程的不同方面。4)《工程遭遇》是一款角色扮演游戏，女孩们在游戏中模拟她们的高中、大学和职业生涯将如何发展。这款游戏将呈现给他们一系列选择，然后他们选择一种反应，这将导致他们生活中发生不同的事件。TechGirl将与亚利桑那州立大学的两个主要项目——应用科学与工程女性项目和少数族裔工程项目——密切合作开发。TechGirl的设计基于与初中和高中女生、她们的老师和辅导员、WISE的大学女生、为WISE提供指导的工程师以及OMEP项目的大学生的广泛讨论。这些团体将继续在TechGirl的发展和评估中发挥关键作用，以便尽可能多地由女孩和妇女为女孩设计。

TechGirl will be a fun and dynamically evolving website dedicated to helping middle school girls learn about science and engineering. It is intended to help them develop an appreciation for the beneficial impact of science and engineering on society, and to encourage them to consider possible careeers in science and engineering. This site will contain four major parts:1) Biographical sketches of women at different stages of their careers, including high school, college, beginning their careers, and at the peak of their careers, including a short bio and a fun/interesting description of a specific event in their career.2) Advice on developing their careers, from choosing courses and activities in high school to picking a college and major to finally choosing a career.3) Puzzles/Brainteasers designed to challenge the girls and expose them to different aspects of science and engineering.4) Engineering Encounters, a role-playing game where the girls simulate how their life could develop through high school, college, and their career. This game will present them with a series of choices, and then they choose a response which then results in different events occurring in their lives.TechGirl will be developed in close collaboration with two major programs at Arizona State University, the Women in Applied Science and Engineering program and the MInority Engineering Program. The design of TechGirl is based on extensive discussions with middle and high school girls, their teachers and counselors, college girls in WISE, engineers who mentor for WISE, and college students in the OMEP program. Those groups will continue to play a critical role in the development and assessment of TechGirl, so that it is designed as much as possible by girls and women for girls.