UAB-Birmingham Consortium for Advanced Education in Computer Science

拟议中的亚拉巴马大学伯明翰分校（UAB）ITEST青年项目利用了UAB几个单位的优势，在三年内为大约200名高中生提供高端信息技术（IT）培训。几乎所有的参与者都将来自弱势学区，这些学区有超过95%的少数民族学生，其中约25%的学生生活在国家贫困线以下。拟议的计划将社区外展发展中心（CORD）和UAB工程，教育，自然科学和数学学院联系在一起。合作伙伴包括戴尔公司，南方研究所，麦克韦恩科学中心和黑人数据处理协会。拟议的计划将通过用户友好的动手成像程序，类似于视频游戏，吸引学生在数学和IT。通过顺序介绍数学和计算机科学基础，这样的编程，高中生将准备从高到大学和职业的IT领导者。学生将根据他们所陈述的兴趣、教师的推荐以及他们在中学CORD方案中的表现被招募，该方案覆盖了本提案所针对的学区的3,000多名学生。该项目建议开发和严格测试新的、基于发现的方法，以加强数学、科学和信息技术的整合。它将为参与的学生提供多年的经验，从大二前的夏天开始，一直延伸到高中四年级。活动包括：（1）为期一周的爱丽丝电影节探索体验（2）课后，基于探究的体验，数学化爱丽丝的世界，以增加他们对视觉成像背后的数学的理解。(3)为期一周的使用机器人C的经验，学习C编程使用NXT乐高机器人和（4）设计和完成一个项目，在IDC设施每周放学后，由学生团队UAB辅导员，地区教师和家长的指导下。家长参与将通过拟议的周末学院，家长领导团队和其他互动保险。监测学生在高中到大学的进步将评估这些方案的有效性，以吸引学生，并推动他们进入IT相关的职业生涯。像许多其他CORD计划一样，拟议的倡议将自我维持。该项目的影响将包括：1）增加代表性不足的群体在IT相关教育和职业中的参与，2）为IT相关教育提供榜样和倡导者，3）在亚拉巴马创建长期可持续的IT培训计划，4）使美国其他学校和教师广泛使用数学和计算机科学课程。

The proposed University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) ITEST Youth Based Project draws on the strengths of several units at UAB to facilitate high-end information technology (IT) training for about 200 high school students over three years. Nearly all of the participants will be from disadvantaged school districts that have over 95% minority students, with about 25% of students living below the national poverty threshold. The proposed program links together the Center for Community OutReach Development (CORD) and the UAB Schools of Engineering, Education and Natural Sciences and Mathematics. Partnerships include Dell, Inc., Southern Research Institute, the McWane Science Center and the Black Data Processing Associates. The proposed program will engage students in math and IT through user-friendly hands-on imaging programs that resemble video games. Through the sequential introduction of math and computer science foundations for such programming, high school students will be prepared to be IT leaders from high through college and careers. Students will be recruited on the basis of their stated interest, teacher recommendations and their performance in the middle school CORD programs, which reach over 3,000 students in the school districts targeted by this proposal. The project proposes to develop and rigorously test new, discovery-based methods to enhance the integration of mathematics, science, and information technology. It will provide multi-year experiences for participating students which begins during the summer before their sophomore year and extends through their senior year in high school. Activities include: (1) a week-long Alice Film Festival discovery experience (2) an after-school, inquiry-based experience, Mathematizing Alice's World, to increase their understanding of the math behind visual imaging. (3) a weeklong experience using Robot C, to learn C programming using NXT Lego robots and (4) the design and completion of a project at the IDC facility by student teams weekly after school, under the mentorship of UAB facilitators, area teachers and parents. Parental involvement will be insured through the proposed Weekend Academy, Parent Leadership Team and other interactions. Monitoring of the students' progress in high school through college will assess the effectiveness of such programs to engage students and to propel them into IT-related careers. Like many other CORD programs, the proposed initiative will become self-sustaining. The project's impact will include 1) increasing the participation of underrepresented groups in IT-related education and careers, 2) providing role models and advocates for IT-related education, 3) creating a long-term sustainable IT-training program in Alabama and 4) making the programs in math and computer science broadly available to other schools and teachers in the US.