GSE/DIF SciGirls CONNECT - A Diffusion Scale Up Project

双子城公共电视台（TPT）将领导一个为期五年的扩展项目，以支持SciGirls ESCECT，这是一项培训100个组织使用SciGirls节目的倡议。规模扩大的资金将允许培训，支持，并有能力在启动年之后参与参与项目，并将项目持续到未来。智力优势：SciGirls已经从一个小型的，实验性的，基于媒体的推广工作发展成为一个国家示范项目，结合视频，印刷活动指南和教育工作者的专业发展，所有这些都通过专门的网站链接。SciGirls的所有组成部分都专注于一个单一的目标：激励和鼓励所有女孩的STEM学习和参与，并培养她们对STEM职业的兴趣。SciGirls节目已经过许多不同类型的女孩服务组织的测试，包括PBS站外展团队，社区组织和科学中心，以及拉丁美洲服务组织，包括SciGirls资源的西班牙语翻译。SciGirls培训、推广和教育材料的方法是基于如何最好地让女孩参与STEM的学术研究。 战略应用于所有STEM学科在现实世界中，全面的方法，将科学与技术与工程与数学联系起来。合作伙伴组织提供SciGirls视频，活动指南和专业发展研讨会，现场和在线。更广泛的影响：SciGirls的优势在于其多媒体方法，以及为女孩提供真实STEM体验的独特视频，包括新的PBS SciGirls电视剧。 所有的SciGirls视频都为女孩提供了独特的真实世界的榜样。在每个视频中，女孩们看到她们的同龄人使用科学，技术，工程和数学来回答关于她们最喜欢的活动的问题。STEM不再是一个抽象概念;它变得真实的，与女孩相关？生活PBS上的全国性SciGirls电视连续剧的出现为SciGirls的宣传提供了独特而有力的宣传。没有其他专门针对女孩和STEM的节目具有全国电视广播的可见度，以吸引女孩参与STEM活动。SciGirls caseect将建立与国家女孩合作项目（NGCP）和其他GSE推广服务的战略伙伴关系。这项工作将由女孩STEM编程领导者顾问委员会指导，该委员会的专业领域包括博物馆、西班牙裔社区和技术。 最终，SciGirls的主要目标是建立一个充满活力的社区，由授权的、消息灵通的专业人士组成，致力于鼓励更多的女孩参加STEM活动并从事STEM职业。

Twin Cities Public Television (TPT) will lead a five-year Scale Up project to support SciGirls CONNECT, an initiative to train 100 organizations in the use of SciGirls programming. Scale-up funding will allow training, support, and the ability to engage participating projects beyond the startup year and to sustain projects into the future.Intellectual Merit: SciGirls has grown from a small, experimental, media-based outreach effort into a national demonstration project that combines video, printed activity guides and professional development for educators, all linked through dedicated websites. All of the SciGirls components focus on a singular goal: to inspire and encourage STEM learning and participation for all girls and develop their interest in STEM careers. SciGirls programming has been tested with many different types of girl-serving organizations including PBS station outreach teams, community-based organizations and science centers, and Latina-serving organizations, including Spanish translations of SciGirls resources. The approach to SciGirls training, outreach and educational materials, is based on academic research into how to best engage girls in STEM. Strategies are applied across all the STEM disciplines in a real-world, holistic approach, linking science with technology with engineering with math. Partner organizations are provided with SciGirls videos, Activity Guides and professional development workshops, both on-site and online. The approaches to building a larger community are based in both research and in an iterative experience working with and training past SciGirls partners.Broader Impacts: The strength of SciGirls lies in its multimedia approach, and unique videos that model authentic STEM experiences for girls, including the new PBS SciGirls TV series. All of the SciGirls videos provide unique, real-world role models for girls. In each video, girls see their peers using science, technology, engineering and math to answer questions about their favorite activities. STEM is no longer an abstraction; it becomes real and relevant to girls? lives. The presence of the national SciGirls TV series on PBS provides unique and powerful promotion of SciGirls CONNECT. No other program dedicated to girls and STEM has the visibility of national television broadcasts to interest girls in pursuing STEM activities. SciGirls CONNECT will build on strategic partnerships with The National Girls Collaborative Project (NGCP) and the other GSE Extension Services. The work will be guided by an advisory board of leaders in STEM programming for girls, with specialties in museums, Hispanic communities and technology. Ultimately, the key goal of SciGirls CONNECT will be to build a vibrant community of empowered, well-informed professionals devoted to encouraging more girls to take part in STEM activities and pursue STEM careers.