An Introduction to Careers in Polar Sciences for Young Women

首席研究员提出了一系列的实地课程，为青少年的年轻女性与冰川，气候和阿尔卑斯山景观的主题，为他们提供一个沉浸式的科学经验，有四个目标的学生：？增加年轻女性？What’你有兴趣把科学作为职业吗？培养终身拥护科学进程的人来教授批判性思维技能吗提高她们的领导自信心，使她们将来更有可能成为社区领导人。这一系列课程将建立在一个非常成功的项目“冰上女孩”（http：girlsonice.org）的基础上，该项目已由PI领导了近10年，为年轻妇女提供了强有力的女性榜样;有机会了解地球科学的职业生涯是什么样的;与科学家进行一对一的互动;促进关于地球科学在社会问题中的价值的讨论;并通过多种方式建立自信的挑战。为了确保体验冰上女孩的年轻女性保持新的自信和灵感，PI将创建一个同伴指导计划（主要通过在线方法），以便年长的冰上女孩参与者可以在高中最后几年和进入大学期间指导年轻人。与会者还将被要求在返回后与高中的年轻女性进行演讲和讨论。此外，PI将领导两个研究生研讨会，提供实地教学的培训和经验。参加的研究生不仅有机会领导冰上女孩和阿拉斯加夏季研究学院课程，而且还将为他们未来的学术生涯提供宝贵的技能。该提案包括一个正式的方案评估和评估，其中包括一个为期四年的纵向研究的一个队列的女孩在冰上参与者，因为他们经历了过渡期，在高中结束。

The Principal Investigator proposes a series of field courses for teenage young women with the theme of Glaciers, Climate, and the Alpine Landscape to provide them with an immersion-science experience that has four goals for students:?to increase young women?s interest in pursuing science as a career?to create life-long advocates for the scientific process ?to teach critical thinking skills ?to enhance their leadership self-confidence so that they have a higher likelihood of becomingcommunity leaders in the future.This series of courses will build on a highly successful program, Girls on Ice (http://girlsonice.org), which the PI has been leading for nearly 10 years and which provides young women with strong, female role models; with an opportunity to see what a career in the Earth sciences is like; with one-on-one interactions with scientists; with facilitated discussions on the value of Earth science in societal issues; and with challenges that will build their self-confidence in multiple ways.To ensure that the young women who experience Girls on Ice maintain their new self-confidence and inspiration, the PI will create a peer-mentoring program (primarily through on-line methods) such that older Girls on Ice participants can mentor younger ones through their last years of high school and entering college. Participants will also be required to give a presentation and lead a discussion with young women at their high school after they return. Furthermore, the PI will lead two graduate student workshops to provide training and experiencein field teaching. The graduate students who participate will not only have opportunities to lead Girls onIce and Alaska Summer Research Academy courses, but also will give them valuable skills for theirfuture academic career. This proposal includes a formal program evaluation and assessment that includes a four-year longitudinal study of one cohort of Girls on Ice participants as they go through the transitional period at the end of high school.