Collaborative Research: RAPID: Investigating Impacts of and Response to COVID-19 in the Technology Innovation Enterprise

COVID-19疫情正迅速改变我们的个人及职业生活，而疫情对创新企业的影响深远。工业界正面临着招聘冻结和裁员。教师和大学教职员工不得不迅速转向在线课程交付。学生们也不得不转向在线课程，许多人面临着失去为支持他们的工作而建立的公共实验室的问题。如果我们要能够有效应对疫情的影响，我们必须从创新界实时快速收集系统数据。该RAPID奖项将评估从K-12教育到技术劳动力的计算创新社区的状况。通过调查COVID-19疫情对社区的短期、中期和长期影响，该项目将阐明计算机学位课程和专业的持续现状，并为设计和提供教育和劳动力机会提供信息。这将支持技术创新企业减轻COVD-19大流行造成的破坏，帮助稳定美国的创新生态系统。在这个RAPID奖中，AnitaB.org，国家妇女信息技术中心（NCWIT）和STARS计算军团将收集与COVD-19大流行对计算创新企业的短期和长期影响相关的数据。由于COVID-19疫情不断变化，因此在这些早期阶段获取数据并建立我们将能够随着形势发展而建立的信息基线至关重要。该奖项的目的是了解全球大流行对工作条件和教育环境的影响，这些影响与计算机学位课程和专业的持续性相关。该团队将通过从K-12教师收集数据来对整个计算生态系统进行采样;中学后项目负责人，教育工作者和学生;以及计算劳动力中的个人。他们将评估以下研究问题，以了解在个人和组织层面的影响：1。计算生态系统（K12、中学后教育、行业、初创企业）如何应对COVID-19危机？2. COVID-19危机对计算社区的短期、中期和长期影响是什么，包括计算教学（K12，高等教育）的设计和交付以及研究和工业技术人员的经验？该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

The COVID-19 pandemic is quickly altering the landscape of our personal and professional lives, and the impacts from the pandemic on the innovation enterprise are profound. Industry is seeing hiring freezes and layoffs. Teachers and college faculty have had to quickly shift to online course delivery. Students have also had to make the shift to online courses, and many face the loss of communal labs that are set-up to support their work. If we are to be able to respond effectively to the impacts of the pandemic, it is paramount that we quickly gather systematic data, in real-time, from the innovation community. This RAPID award will assess the state of the computing innovation community from K-12 education to the tech workforce. Through a survey of the short, medium, and long term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the community, this project will elucidate the current state of persistence in computing degree programs and professions and inform efforts to design and deliver education and workforce opportunities. This will support the technology innovation enterprise in mitigating the disruption caused by the COVD-19 pandemic, helping to stabilize the U.S. innovation ecosystem.In this RAPID award, AnitaB.org, the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), and the STARS Computing Corps will gather data related to the short- and longer-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the computing innovation enterprise. Due to the ever-changing COVID-19 situation, it is paramount to capture data in these early days and establish a baseline of information that we will be able to build on as the situation unfolds. The objective of this award is to understand the impact of the global pandemic on the conditions of work and educational environments related to factors associated with persistence in computing degree programs and professions. The team will sample across the computing ecosystem by gathering data from K-12 teachers; post-secondary program leaders, educators and students; and individuals in the computing workforce. They will assess the following research questions to understand impacts at both the individual and organizational levels: 1. How is the computing ecosystem (K12, postsecondary, industry, startup) responding to the COVID-19 crisis? 2. What are the short-term, intermediate, and longer-term impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on the computing community, in terms of the design and delivery of computing instruction (K12, postsecondary) and research and the experiences of technologists in industry?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.