Program for Gender Equity in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (PGE): Girls Re-designing and Excelling in Advanced Technology (GREAT!)

迈阿密科学博物馆提议设计和实施一项创新示范方案，以增强女孩的信心、兴趣和准备，使她们能够追求与信息技术领域高端职业有关的学术和就业机会。标题很棒！该项目将以与女孩和信息技术有关的研究为基础，制定和示范有效的方法，使女孩成为信息技术应用程序的设计者-而不仅仅是用户。总体目标是伟大的！提高中学女生，特别是有色人种女生对先进技术应用的兴趣和技能，从而增加女性在学术课程和高端IT职业就业机会中的代表性。具体目标很好！项目的主要目标是培养女孩的信心和掌握先进技术应用的专门知识;让她们参与利用先进技术解决真实的世界问题;加强女孩的沟通和表达技能;通过对项目成果的全面评估，为实地工作做出贡献并提供信息，并在非正规科学教育机构和其他有关各方中传播项目方法和成果。博物馆将与迈阿密戴德县公立学校的城市系统计划合作，每年招募40名中学女生，在项目期间总共招募120名女生。在为期两年的课程中，参与者将扮演IT设计师的角色，逐步掌握复杂的技术技能，最终创造出完全互动的3D虚拟博物馆展览体验。女孩将开始参加为期12周的周六技术研讨会，该研讨会将在学年期间举行。在完成技术工作坊系列之后，女孩们将参加为期4周的暑期密集设计工作室，在那里他们将使用最先进的虚拟现实（VR）技术来创建一个展示自己设计发明的VR制作。女孩将以四人一组的方式工作，每组分配一名导师（主修计算机技术或相关领域的女大学生），导师将提供技术指导并充当角色模型。完成作品后，女孩们将通过家庭之夜的演讲以及在下一学年的一个月内在博物馆画廊向游客展示和解释她们的作品，加强她们的演讲技巧，增强自尊和自信。博物馆将与VR Visions和儿童与技术中心签订合同，提供设计支持。媒体分析实践的凯瑟琳泰纳将担任该项目的外部评估员，负责项目活动的形成性和总结性评估。

The Miami Museum of Science proposes to design and implement an innovative model program to increase the confidence, interest and preparedness of girls to pursue academic and employment opportunities related to high end careers in the field of information technology (IT). Titled GREAT! (Girls Redesigning and Excelling in Advanced Technology), the project will build on the body of research related to girlsand IT to develop and model effective methodologies for engaging girls as designers -- as opposed to simply users -- of IT applications. The overall goal of GREAT! is to raise interest and skills in advanced technology applications among middle school girls, particularly girls of color, resulting in increased representation of females inacademic programs and employment opportunities leading to high end IT careers. Specific objectives of GREAT! are to build girls' confidence and expertise with advanced technology applications; to engage them in the use of advanced technology to solve real world problems; to strengthen girls' communication and presentation skills; to contribute to and inform the field through a comprehensive evaluation of projectoutcomes, and to disseminate project methodologies and findings among informal science education institutions and other interested parties. The Museum will collaborate with Miami Dade County Public School's Urban SystemicProgram to recruit 40 middle school girls each year, for a total of 120 girls over theduration of the project. Over the course of a two year period, participants will assume the roles of IT designers, acquiring progressively complex technology skills culminating in the creation of a fully interactive 3 D virtual Museum exhibit experience.Girls will begin by participating in a 12 week Saturday Technology Workshop which will take place over the course of the academic year. Following completion of the Technology Workshop series, girls will take part in a 4 week intensive summer Design Studio in which they will use state of the art virtual reality (VR) technology to create a VRproduction showcasing an invention of their own design. Girls will work in teams of four, with each team assigned a mentor (a female college student majoring in computertechnology or a related field) who will provide technical guidance and serve as a rolemodel. Upon completing their productions, girls will strengthen their presentation skillsand increase self esteem and self confidence through Family Night presentations and by exhibiting and interpreting their work to visitors in the Museum galleries for a one month period during the subsequent academic year. The Museum will contract with VR Visions and the Center for Children and Technologyto provide design support. Kathleen Tyner of Media Analysis & Practice will serve as the project's external evaluator, responsible for formative and summative evaluation of project activities.