NSF INCLUDES: Supporting Women Advancing Through Technology

加州大学欧文分校将领导这项设计和开发启动试点，与奥兰治县CA STEM倡议、奥兰治县CA教育部、奥兰治县CA劳动力投资委员会、Jamboree经济适用住房社区、奥兰治伍德福斯特和社区青年服务基金会、辛烷技术孵化器、明天项目和增长部门的合作者合作。该项目是为了响应工程和科学领域中代表性不足的发现者学习者（NSF INCLUDES）项目征集（NSF 16-544）而创建的。INCLUDES项目是一项综合性的国家倡议，旨在加强美国在科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）发现和创新方面的领导地位，重点关注NSF在这些领域的多样性、包容性和扩大参与的承诺。INCLUDES设计和开发启动试点项目代表了解决STEM领域日益扩大的参与挑战的大胆、创新的方式。美国所有STEM人才的充分参与，对于科学和工程的进步、国家安全、健康和繁荣至关重要。我们的国家正在推进知识和实践，以解决计算机技术教育实践，以招聘、更好地教育、留住和毕业一批富有成效的STEM劳动力。然而，作为代表性不足的少数群体成员，社会经济地位较低的女性，在STEM，特别是计算技术方面的表现历来不佳。这个名为“NSF INCLUDES：支持女性通过技术进步”的项目有可能显著推进一组组织的合作方式，以提高贫困、代表性不足的少数族裔女性在学习计算技术并向STEM劳动力过渡时的成功。该项目将展示计算机科学培训对妇女的影响，特别是那些被剥夺权利和代表性不足的少数民族妇女，她们可能正在退出青年寄养服务，生活在低收入住房中，和/或由于其社会经济地位而被拒绝参加项目，特别是技术项目。合作组织将为16岁至34岁的失业或未充分就业的女性设计、开发和推出计算机科学方面的短期强化培训机会，这些女性希望从事向上的职业流动。该计划将包括可复制的定制课程和可扩展的教育方法。新兵训练营将教授Ruby on Rails， HTML， CSS， SQL， JavaScript和AngularJS的基础知识，并为参与者在web开发的职业生涯做好准备，同时使他们能够保持日常工作并提供儿童保育服务。在这一启动试点项目中，合作伙伴将对多达150名女性进行随机抽样培训，并提供实习和/或工作影子，让参与者获得客户经验，向更有经验的开发人员学习，并继续建立自己的投资组合。参与该项目的所有女性都将获得信息、指导，并接触到大学和职业机会。STEM职业的就业安置是这个设计和开发启动试点的最终目标。

The University of California, Irvine will lead this Design and Development Launch Pilot to engage with collaborators from the Orange County CA STEM Initiative, the Orange County CA Department of Education, the Orange County CA Workforce Investment Board, the Jamboree Affordable Housing Communities, the Orangewood Foundation for Foster and Community Youth Services, OCTANE-Technology Incubator, Project Tomorrow and Growth Section. This project was created in response to the Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES) program solicitation (NSF 16-544). The INCLUDES program is a comprehensive national initiative designed to enhance U.S. leadership in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) discoveries and innovations focused on NSF's commitment to diversity, inclusion, and broadening participation in these fields. The INCLUDES Design and Development Launch Pilots represent bold, innovative ways for solving a broadening participation challenge in STEM. The full participation of all of America's STEM talent is critical to the advancement of science and engineering for national security, health and prosperity. Our nation is advancing knowledge and practices to address the computing technology education practices for recruiting, better educating, retaining and graduating a productive STEM workforce. However women who are members of underrepresented minority groups, with low socioeconomic status, historically underperform in STEM and specifically in computing technology. This project, NSF INCLUDES: Supporting Women Advancing Through Technology, has the potential to significantly advance a collaborative approach by a group of organizations to improve the success of poor, underrepresented minority women who are learning computing technology and transitioning to the STEM workforce.The project will demonstrate the outcomes of computer science training for women, particular disenfranchised and underrepresented minority women that may be exiting foster youth services, living in low income housing, and/or having been denied access to programs particularly in technology due to their socioeconomic status. Partnering organizations will design, develop and launch a short-term, intensive training opportunity in computer science for women ages 16 to 34 who are unemployed or underemployed, and who desire to engage in upward career mobility. The program will include a replicable, custom curriculum and an educational approach that will be scalable. A boot camp will teach the fundamentals of Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, SQL, JavaScript, and AngularJS, and prepare participants for a career in web development while enabling them to keep their day jobs and have childcare provided. Educating a randomized sample treatment group of up to 150 women in this launch pilot, the partners will also offer internships and/or job shadows, where participants gain client experience, learn from more experienced developers, and continue to build their portfolios. All of the women in the program will receive information, coaching and exposure to college and career opportunities. Job placement in STEM careers is the outcome goal of this design and development launch pilot.