EAGER: MAKER: Developing Digital Makers in the Coding Makerspace to Include Boys of Color in Computer Science Learning and Cybersecurity Workforce Development

该项目将推动学生和教师创新技术体验(ITEST)计划的努力，以更好地了解和促进提高学生在科学、技术、工程或数学(STEM)领域追求职业生涯的动机和能力的实践。Coding Makerspace正在为有色人种男孩提供亲身实践的数字制造者项目，并为他们提供支持，让他们获得与网络安全相关的计算机编程语言Python的认证。Makerspace还向8岁及以上的有色人种男孩提供基于研究的计算机和网络安全教育的最佳实践。此外，Makerspace正在与当地的网络安全公司合作，通过跟踪和/或现场安置机会获得现实世界的经验。因此，Makerspace正在解决计算机科学中种族多样性学生长期代表性不足的问题，并提高他们对高等教育、就业和创业中的网络安全机会的兴趣。编码Makerspace具有巨大的潜力，可以促进关于如何实现计算机科学教育中种族多样性学生的平等、多样性、获取和包容的目标的知识。Makerspace正在为有色人种男孩提供这种支持，让他们成为计算机和网络安全创新的创造者，而不是消费者，这些创新将为社会做出贡献。该项目还在促进发展关于如何扩大计算机科学实践教育的影响的新知识，这是提高不同种族学生的兴趣和网络安全工作人员准备所必需的。此外，Makerspace正在解决所有学生，特别是代表不足的有色人种年轻人日益增长的需求，为保护国家安全的网络安全工作岗位的预期增长做准备。

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). The Coding Makerspace is providing hands-on digital maker projects and support for boys of color to earn certification in Python, the computer programming language related to cybersecurity. The Makerspace is also exposing boys of color ages eight and above to research-based and best practices in computing and cybersecurity education. Additionally, the Makerspace is collaborating with local cyber security companies to gain real-world experience through shadowing and/or field placement opportunities. As a result, the Makerspace is addressing the longstanding underrepresentation of racially diverse students in computer science and increasing their interest in cybersecurity opportunities in higher education, employment, and entrepreneurship.The Coding Makerspace has great potential to advance knowledge on ways to achieve the goals of equity, diversity, access, and inclusion of racially diverse students in computer science education. The Makerspace is providing boys of color with that support to be creators, not consumers, of computing and cybersecurity innovations that will contribute to society. The project is also facilitating the development of new knowledge on how to broaden the impact of the hands-on computer science education needed to increase racially diverse student interest and cybersecurity workforce preparation. In addition, the Makerspace is addressing the increasing need for all students, particularly underrepresented young men of color, to prepare for the expected growth of cybersecurity jobs that protects the country's national security.