Sustaining and Expanding Mobile Making in Underserved Communities

加州州立大学圣马科斯分校及其合作者的这一项目将扩大并继续创新试点Mobile Making计划，目标是开发一个可持续的地区性模式，在圣地亚哥地区的12个课外计划中为服务不足的中学生年龄的青年提供服务。对当前移动制造计划的评估证明了对参与者的兴趣、自我效能和对制造/STEM在日常生活中的相关性的感知的积极影响，并导致了一个让服务不足的年轻人参与制造的模式。这项工作将侧重于通过增加本科生活动负责人的数量、课后地点和社区参与程度，以更大的能力可持续地实施该计划模式。扩大后的移动制造计划预计将在当地12个学校吸引约1800名中学生，活动由约1020名CSU-SM STEM专业的本科生推动。这些地点位于种族多元化和经济困难的社区，在一些地点，高达90%的学生有资格享受免费或降价午餐。本科生辅导员来自CSU-SM的不同学生群体，其中44%是代表不足的少数族裔。预计结果将包括青年参与者的兴趣、自我效能感和对Make/STEM在日常生活中的相关性的感知的增加。对本科生辅导员的积极影响将包括拓宽技术技能、提高领导力和21世纪的技能，以及增加对STEM外联/非正式科学教育的终身兴趣。该计划旨在通过创新手段实现可持续发展，例如通过社区服务学习(而不是有偿职位)让本科生辅导员参与，并通过发展和支持包括当地课后提供者、教师、制造商和大学成员在内的实践社区来增加社区参与度。对该计划成果和经验教训的评估预计将产生一个可持续的、以大学为基础的课后制作计划的综合模式，对服务不足的社区产生地区性影响。向其他地区的传播将通过CSU-SM在加州州立大学(CSU)系统中的成员资格来利用，产生潜在的全州影响。CSU校长办公室的支持和CSU实施小组的投入将确保该模型适用于其他地区性大学环境，确定共同的结构性障碍和解决方案，并增加二次实施的可能性。这项工作由推进非正式STEM学习(AISL)计划资助，该计划旨在促进对非正式环境中STEM学习的设计和开发的新方法和基于证据的理解。

This project by California State University San Marcos and their collaborators will expand and continue to innovate on a pilot Mobile Making program with the goal of developing a sustainable, regional model for serving underserved, middle-school aged youth in twelve after-school programs in the San Diego region. Evaluation of the current Mobile Making program has documented positive impacts on participants' interest, self-efficacy, and perception of the relevance of Making/STEM in everyday life, and led to a model for engaging underserved youth in Making. The work will focus on implementing the program model sustainably at greater capacity by increasing the number of undergraduate activity leaders, after-school sites, and level of community engagement. The expanded Mobile Making program is expected to engage ~1800 middle school youth at 12 local school sites, with activities facilitated by ~1020 undergraduate CSU-SM STEM majors. The sites are in ethnically diverse and economically disadvantaged neighborhoods, with as many as 90% of students at some sites qualifying for free or reduced price lunch. The undergraduate facilitators are drawn from CSU-SM's diverse student body, which includes 44% underrepresented minorities. Outcomes are expected to include increases in the youth participants' interest, self-efficacy, and perception of the relevance of Making/STEM in everyday life. Positive impacts on the undergraduate facilitators will include broadened technical skills, increased leadership and 21st century skills, and increased lifelong interest in STEM outreach/informal science education. The program is designed to achieve sustainability through innovative means such as involving undergraduate facilitators via Community Service Learning (rather than paid positions), and increased community engagement via development and support of a community of practice including local after-school providers, teachers, Makers, and University members. Evaluation of the program outcomes and lessons learned are expected to result in a comprehensive model for a sustainable, university-based after-school Making program with regional impact in underserved communities. Dissemination to other regions will be leveraged via CSU-SM's membership in the California State University (CSU) system, yielding a potential statewide impact. The support of the CSU Chancellor's Office and input from a CSU implementation group will ensure the applicability of the model to other regional university settings, identify common structural barriers and solutions, and increase the probability of secondary implementations.This work is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understanding of, the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments.