CI-TEAM Implementation Project: Computing MATTERS: Pathways to Cyberinfrastructure

CI-TEAM 实施项目：计算事项：网络基础设施之路

• 批准号: 1041391
• 负责人: Robert Panoff
• 金额: $ 87.5万
• 依托单位: Shodor Education Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-10-01 至 2014-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1041391&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CI; TEAM; Implementation; Project; Computing

For nearly a decade, supported with funding from NSF and private and corporate foundations, students in and near Durham have benefited from the workshops, apprenticeships, and internships offered by Shodor, a national resource in computational science education. Funding from CI-TEAM, ITEST and NSDL programs have provided the "AdVenture Capital" for Shodor to try novel outreach efforts to excite and attract students to consider study and careers in science, mathematics, and medicine. The result is Computing MATTERS, a coherent continuum of other than school-time activities from upper elementary grades through college for students to encounter the excitement of discovery, the power of inquiry, and the joy of learning enabled by cyberinfrastructure technologies. Leveraging this tested and proven model that combines training of teachers and near-peer exploration leaders, effective STEM education experiences for students at all levels, advancement of students from diverse backgrounds to positions of leadership, and continuous mentoring, Shodor has developed a partnership with universities, community centers, school districts and Sigma Xi to extend Computing MATTERS first to a wide geographic area reaching the very corners of the Research Triangle, and then to span the state of North Carolina. In Computing MATTERS, "MATTERS" is itself an acronym and has meaning in its own right: Mentoring Academic Transitions Through Experiences in Research and Service. The program combines the best of Shodor's efforts from workshops, apprenticeships and internships that have developed along the lines of the goals of CI-TEAM from the beginning. We help elementary and middle school students build and sustain an interest in science, mathematics, and technology through their high school years, and help high school students to see themselves being successful and happy pursuing studies in college and careers in STEM areas, while offering internships for college students to serve as developers and mentors in the program. We want to build self-sustaining local infrastructures, adapting the best features of Shodor's local initiatives, while expanding the mentor base to include colleges and universities and members of Sigma Xi living and working in North Carolina. Intellectual Merit: Computing "matters" because quantitative reasoning, computational thinking, and multiscale modeling are the intellectual "heart and soul" of 21st Century science and therefore are the essential skills of the 21st Century workforce. Computing "matters" because it moves students others have identified as "at risk" to students self-identified as "competent, capable, motivated, and employable." Computing "matters" because we can demonstrate the power of interactive computing to help reach a deeper understanding of math and science, while making the science "minds on" as well as "hands on." This implementation project will test the viability of the Shodor framework for sustainable outreach. Broader Impact: Computational explorations provide the context-rich experiences that attract otherwise underrepresented groups into STEM areas. We are scaling our work by demonstrating that Computing MATTERS works beyond Shodor, serving as a model for dissemination of successful programs. Our goal is to enable students all over North Carolina, and the nation eventually, to share the same growth from excitement to experience to expertise through research opportunities and service as students in Shodor's hometown. Materials will be vetted through the rigorous Verification, Validation, Accreditation (VVA) process employed by Shodor's Computational Science Education Reference Desk CSERD, a Pathway portal of the National Science Digital Library; research and evaluation results will be featured in the Journal of Computational Science Education.

近十年来，在 NSF 以及私人和企业基金会的资助下，达勒姆及其附近的学生受益于国家计算科学教育资源 Shodor 提供的研讨会、学徒和实习机会。 CI-TEAM、ITEST 和 NSDL 项目的资助为 Shodor 提供了“AdVenture Capital”，以尝试新颖的外展活动，以激发和吸引学生考虑在科学、数学和医学方面的学习和职业。其结果是“Computing MATTERS”，这是一个从小学高年级到大学的校外活动的连贯连续体，让学生体验由网络基础设施技术带来的发现的兴奋、探究的力量和学习的乐趣。 Shodor 利用这一经过测试和验证的模型，结合了教师和同行探索领导者的培训、为各个级别的学生提供有效的 STEM 教育经验、将不同背景的学生提升到领导职位以及持续的指导，与大学建立了合作伙伴关系、社区中心、学区和 Sigma Xi，首先将计算事务扩展到广泛的地理区域，到达研究三角的各个角落，然后扩展到北卡罗来纳州。在Computing MATTERS中，“MATTERS”本身就是一个缩写词，并且有其本身的含义：通过研究和服务经验指导学术转变。该计划结合了 Shodor 在研讨会、学徒和实习中的最佳努力，这些工作从一开始就沿着 CI-TEAM 的目标发展。我们帮助中小学生在高中时期建立并维持对科学、数学和技术的兴趣，并帮助高中生看到自己在大学学习和 STEM 领域的职业生涯中取得成功和快乐，同时提供实习机会让大学生担任该项目的开发者和导师。我们希望建立自我维持的当地基础设施，适应 Shodor 当地举措的最佳特点，同时扩大导师基础，以包括在北卡罗来纳州生活和工作的学院和大学以及 Sigma Xi 成员。智力优势：计算“很重要”，因为定量推理、计算思维和多尺度建模是 21 世纪科学的智力“心脏和灵魂”，因此是 21 世纪劳动力的基本技能。计算之所以“重要”，是因为它让其他人认为“处于危险之中”的学生转变为自我认为“有能力、有能力、有动力、有就业能力”的学生。计算“很重要”，因为我们可以展示交互式计算的力量，帮助加深对数学和科学的理解，同时让科学“动脑”和“动手”。该实施项目将测试 Shodor 可持续外展框架的可行性。更广泛的影响：计算探索提供了背景丰富的体验，吸引了代表性不足的群体进入 STEM 领域。我们正在扩展我们的工作，证明Computing MATTERS 的作用超越 Shodor，成为传播成功项目的典范。我们的目标是让北卡罗来纳州乃至全国的学生通过研究机会和服务，与肖多家乡的学生一样，分享从兴奋到经验再到专业知识的成长。材料将通过Shodor计算科学教育参考台CSERD（国家科学数字图书馆的衔接门户）采用的严格验证、确认、认证（VVA）流程进行审查；研究和评估结果将发表在《计算科学教育杂志》上。