EAGER: A Research-Driven Messaging Campaign to Transform Perceptions of URMs in STEM Innovation

EAGER项目从事有可能改变创业创新领域的研究，因为它涉及到扩大有色人种妇女在教育和学术相关创新环境中的参与。该项目的目标是使用讲故事来探索哪些因素影响了创新STEM空间中代表性不足的人群的访问，追求和成功，并为美国国家科学基金会（NSF）的I-Corps计划创建一个研究驱动的信息活动。创新和创业精神是美国的主要经济驱动力，对于确保美国作为全球科技领导者的地位至关重要。由于在STEM中严重缺乏代表性不足的群体，也缺乏具有不同经验，想法，观点和故事的创新者。将这些团体纳入国家创新网络可以增加对创新和创业的潜在变革性思考方式。本研究的结果将用于揭示哪些因素（故事，想法，经验，看法）影响/在NSF代表性不足的人群中发挥作用，追求和成功创新STEM空间（学术和专业）。它还将为旨在扩大代表性不足的群体参与NSF I-Corps计划的试点信息宣传活动的规划和实施提供信息。以前为解决STEM中代表性不足的妇女的创新问题所做的努力未能有效地产生实质性影响，从而导致这一领域的可衡量的增长。 通过关注STEM中代表性不足的社区讲述的故事，该项目旨在揭示这些群体无法进入STEM部门或认为他们不适合这些空间的具体原因。预计这些成果将促进对代表性不足的社区成员在STEM领域面临的障碍的理解，并有可能对代表性不足的群体在STEM中的包容性和工作场所，学校，大学，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的评估来支持。影响审查标准。

This EAGER project engages in research that has the potential to transform the field of innovation of entrepreneurship as it relates to broadening participation of women of color in educational and academic related innovation environments. The goal of this project is to use storytelling to explore which factors influence the access, pursuit, and success of underrepresented populations in innovative STEM spaces and create a research-driven messaging campaign for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) I-Corps program. Innovation and entrepreneurship are major economic drivers in the United States and are essential to ensure the Nation’s standing as a global leader in science and technology. Because of the significant lack of inclusion of under-represented groups in STEM, there is also an absence of innovators with diverse experiences, ideas, perspectives, and stories. Including these groups in the National Innovation Network can add potentially transformative ways of thinking about innovation and entrepreneurship. Results from this study will be used to uncover what factors (stories, ideas, experiences, perceptions) influence/play a role in NSF’s under-represented populations access to, pursuit of, and success in innovative STEM spaces (both academic and professional). It will also inform the planning and implementation of a pilot messaging campaign aimed at broadening participation of under-represented groups in NSF’s I-Corps program. Previous efforts to address innovation for under-represented women in STEM have not been effective in producing substantive impact that led to measurable increases in this area. By focusing on stories told by under-represented communities in STEM, this project seeks to uncover specific reasons these groups do not have access to STEM sectors or think they do not fit in these spaces. The outcomes are expected to advance the understanding of the barriers members of under-represented communities face in STEM fields, and have the potential to significantly impact the inclusion of underrepresented groups in STEM and innovation within workplaces, schools, universities, and community spaces.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.