SoBRO TEC

这是社区组织南布朗克斯整体经济发展公司（SoBRO）的请求，该公司与哥伦比亚大学工程与应用科学学院以及专门从事技术教育的视觉教育&媒体公司合作，开展为期三年的以青年为基础的项目：SoBRO TEC。该项目将以项目为基础，以设计为中心，为来自南布朗克斯（South Bronx）的180名少数族裔高中青年提供服务。南布朗克斯是一个被贫困、学校失败和社会问题困扰的社区。其目标是在当地城市环境的背景下发展参与者的技术流动性，并通过在专业和创意环境中接触信息技术应用（并非相互排斥），扩大这些少数民族和低收入参与者进入信息技术相关职业的切入点。这个为期三年的课程包括一系列课后课程、学期课程和暑期课程。学生每天至少有两个小时的学习时间，每周3天，每学期共11周；暑期课程每周授课20小时，为期7周；每年联络时数达230小时。这些模块涉及三个技术领域：城市空间中的信息技术，探索涉及IT系统和网络的城市设计产品，如交通系统、公园、娱乐和公共服务产品以及移动电话；艺术及娱乐科技、电影及表演科技及音乐制作；建筑建模技术，材料和建筑策略，以及建造你的梦想之家。暑期课程在这些模块的基础上提供了三种选择：实地考察系列、社区网络建设项目和实习。

This is a request for The South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation (SoBRO), a community-based organization, to partner with Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Vision Education & Media, a firm specializing in technology education, for a three-year, youth-based program: SoBRO TEC. The program will serve up to 180 minority high school youth from the South Bronx -- a community beset by poverty, failing schools and social problems-in a project-based, design-centered program. The goals are to develop the participants' technological fluidity within the context of the local urban environment and to broaden the entry points to IT-related careers for these minority and low-income participants through exposure to IT applications in professional and creative settings (not mutually exclusive).This three-year program consists of a series of after school, semester-length modules and a summer program. Students will meet for at least two hours per day, three days per week for a total of 11 weeks per semester; summer programs will meet for 20 hours per week during seven weeks; reaching a maximum of 230 contact hours per year. The modules engage students in three areas of technology: Information Technology in Urban Spaces, exploring products of urban design that involve IT systems and networks such as transit systems, parks and recreation and public service offerings as well as the cellular phone; Art and Entertainment Technology, film and performance technology and music production; and Architectural Modeling Technology, materials and building strategies and building your dream house. The summer program offers three options that build on these modules: field trip series, community web-building projects, and internships.