Collaborative Research: Building SPEED (Science Partnerships in Engagement, Education and Diversity)

该奖项支持建设速度项目，该项目通过将数学、科学和工程与赛车运动，特别是纳斯卡联系起来，解决美国全球竞争力面临的挑战。NASCAR拥有7500万粉丝，他们来自令人惊讶的广泛人口背景，其中包括一大群传统STEM外联服务不足的人。将开发三种类型的材料：1)学生工作表和实践活动，以加强国家和国家科学与数学教育标准要求的内容知识；2)职业信息，介绍STEM如何应用于赛车运动，吸引来自不同教育水平和公司的人，并展示参与STEM的人的多样性；3)实践材料，以提高公众？S理解赛车运动背后的数学和科学。传播是通过与工业赞助商、非正式科学场所和其他学术机构建立伙伴关系来完成的。传播机制包括教师讲习班、在赛马场、街头节日和科学博物馆举行的公共科学活动以及访问学校。将在三个地点(德州多佛、德克萨斯州达拉斯/沃斯堡、德克萨斯州和北卡罗来纳州夏洛特)进行传播，每次传播包括2008年秋季和2009年春季比赛前一周的活动。

ABSTRACTThis award supports the project Building SPEED, which addresses challenges to US global competitiveness by linking math, science and engineering to motorsports and, in particular, NASCAR. NASCAR has 75 million fans from a surprisingly broad range of demographic backgrounds, including a large group of people underserved by traditional STEM outreach. Three types of materials will be developed: 1) student worksheets and hands-on activities that reinforce the content knowledge mandated by state and national Science and Math Education Standards; 2) career information about how STEM is used in motorsports featuring people from a broad range of educational levels and companies, and demonstrating the full diversity of people involved in STEM and 3) hands-on materials to enhance the public?s understanding of the math and science behind motorsports. Dissemination is accomplished by partnerships with industrial sponsors, informal science venues and other academic institutions. Dissemination mechanisms include teacher workshops, public science events at race tracks, street festivals and science museums, and visits to schools. Dissemination will occur in three locations (Dover, DE; Dallas/Fort Worth, TX and Charlotte, NC), with each dissemination consisting of a week of events prior to races in fall 2008 and spring 2009.