The Urban Community Project to Stimulate Interests in STEM Careers (U-CPS)

菲斯克大学的城市社区激发STEM职业兴趣项目(U-CPS)是一个为期三年的项目，旨在通过开发学习模块为15名初中和高中教师的三个队列提供高质量的专业发展体验，为中学生提供具有挑战性和激励性的学习体验。教师将通过测试和完善这些单元进行研究，并首先在先前存在的为期8周的男孩(Thurst)和女孩(Gusto)夏季科学夏令营中充当主持人，然后对其进行修改，以便在学年期间用于科学课堂。该项目提供了一个课后教师培训计划，重点是在大都会纳什维尔公立学校系统的城市教室中使用机器人、火箭、计算机和ICT编程技能。该项目的目标是：(1)改进公立学校科学教师的教学方法，为初中和高中科学教师提供专业发展计划，以帮助他们在科学课程中发展和整合创新的教学方法；(2)加强科学和数学暑期科学计划，为未被充分代表的群体的学生在STEM/ICT学科的学业成就和职业生涯做好准备；(3)在课堂上利用火箭和信息和通信技术方面的有系统的互动和动手活动，提高教学能力和学生的学习能力。

The Urban Community Project to Stimulate Interests in STEM Careers (U-CPS) project of Fisk University is a three-year project designed to provide challenging and stimulating learning experiences to middle school students by providing high quality professional development experiences for three cohorts of 15 middle and high school teachers through the development of learning modules. Teachers will conduct research by testing and refining these modules and operate as facilitators initially in pre-existing 8-weeks boys' (THURST) and girls' (GUSTO) summer science camps, and then modify them for use in science classrooms during the academic year. The project provides an after-school teachers' training program focusing on the utilization of robotics, rocketry, computers and ICT programming skills in urban classrooms in the Metropolitan Nashville Public School System. The goals of the project are to: (1) Improve pedagogy among public school science teachers by providing a professional development program for middle and high school science teachers to assist them in developing and integrating innovative teaching methods in their science curricula; (2) Enhance science and math summer science programs to prepare students from underrepresented groups for academic achievement and careers in STEM/ICT disciplines; (3) Use structured interactive and hands-on activities in rocketry and ICT in the classroom to enhance teaching competencies and student learning.