Preparing African American Males for Energy & Education (PAAMEE)

该项目将推进学生和教师创新技术体验（ITEST）计划的努力，以更好地理解和促进提高学生的动机和能力的做法，通过参与实践现场经验，实验室/基于项目的创业任务和导师经验，追求科学，技术，工程或数学（STEM）领域的职业生涯。准备非洲裔美国男性的能源和教育（PAAMEE），是一个ITEST战略项目，旨在暴露，激励和准备非洲裔美国男性的技术职业和高等教育在发电和可再生能源行业。该项目将吸引240名底特律大都会非洲裔美国男性，10-12年级，参加基于项目的校外科学和工程活动，教授与能源生产和储存相关的概念。使用队列模型，学生将在15个月的时间内参与STEM教育计划，大学准备和青年指导。除了掌握技术概念外，学生还将会见商业专业人士，企业家和攻读科学和工程学位的大学生。该计划的主要内容领域包括基于项目的工程和领导力课程，职业探索活动和社区服务机会。每门课程的结构都将满足高中生的学习需求。课程将在整个底特律地区大学预科工程计划的校园内与位于底特律大都会区，密歇根州立大学（兰辛，MI）和密歇根理工大学（霍顿，MI）的合作伙伴轮换该计划的一个关键方面是为学生参与者提供在大学环境中从事学术和技术工作的机会。该计划将进行混合方法研究，直接解决三个指导性的研究问题：1）什么样的连贯的经验集有效和高效地支持学生的能力，动机和持久性，在今天或未来的STEM相关劳动力的生产性参与。2)什么样的作用可能企业和行业的劳动力成员在激励学生成为意识到，感兴趣，并准备在干相关的劳动力的职业生涯？3)考虑到我们目前的教室和我们国家所反映的人口结构的变化，有什么有效和富有成效的方法来确保通过让代表性不足的人群参与STEM项目和职业来扩大参与？

This project will advance efforts of the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program to better understand and promote practices that increase students' motivations and capacities to pursue careers in fields of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) by engaging in hands-on field experience, laboratory/project-based entrepreneurship tasks and mentorship experiences.The proposed project, Preparing African American Males for Energy and Education (PAAMEE), is an ITEST Strategies project designed to expose, motivate and prepare African American males for technical careers and post-secondary education in the Power Generation and Renewable Energy industries. The project will engage 240 Metropolitan Detroit African American males, grades 10-12, in project based out-of-school time science and engineering activities that teach concepts related to the production and storage of energy. Using a cohort model, students will engage in STEM educational programming, college readiness and youth mentoring over a 15 month period. In addition to technical concept mastery, students will be meeting business professionals, entrepreneurs and university students pursing degrees in science and engineering.The major content areas of the program includes project based engineering and leadership courses, career exploration activities, and a community service opportunity. Each course will be structured to meet the learning needs of high school students. Courses will rotate throughout the campuses of Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program with partners located in the Detroit Metropolitan Area, Michigan State University (Lansing, MI) and Michigan Technological University (Houghton, MI) A key aspect of the program is to provide the opportunity for student participants to engage in academic and technical work in the university environment. The program will conduct a mixed methods research study to directly address three guiding research questions: 1) What coherent sets of experiences effectively and efficiently support student competency, motivation and persistence for productive participation in the STEM-related workforce today or in the future. 2) What roles might business and industry workforce members play in motivating students to become aware of, interested in, and prepared for careers in the STEM-related workforce? 3) Given the shifting demographics reflected in our current classrooms and in our country, what are effective and productive ways to ensure broadening participation by engaging divers underrepresented populations in STEM programs and careers?