Rebranding the 21st Century IT Technician

重塑 21 世纪 IT 技术人员的品牌

• 批准号: 1400451
• 负责人: Asa Bradley
• 金额: $ 19.99万
• 依托单位: Community Colleges of Spokane
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1400451&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Rebranding; 21st; Century; Technician

To address the need for more high-skilled Information Technology (IT) technicians in a six-county area district, Spokane Falls Community College (SFCC) is partnering with local school districts, community organizations, industry partners, the Spokane Workforce Consortium, and the Washington Center of Excellence for Information and Computing Technology. The project adjusts incoming students', enrolled students', and local employers' perceptions of IT technicians' ideal genders, skill sets, and degrees. The major activities are: (1) Offering IT summer camps for middle school girls, and professional development workshops for middle school teachers and counselors; (2) Teaching sections of science classes from the perspective of IT, and starting a chapter of American Women in Computing (AWS) on campus; and (3) Partnering with local employers to develop streamlined education-to-employment programs. The project increases the knowledge base of how to recruit and retain female students, and how to quickly make them post K-12 ready. It creates a curriculum that demonstrates interdependency between technology and science, and it develops procedures for establishing robust job shadowing and internship programs. The best practices established through this project can be extended to other STEM disciplines and technician training programs. Through a partnership with the Washington Center of Excellence for Information and Computing Technology; the project results will be available to instructors at all of the 34 community and technical colleges in that state. Through the ATE Mentor Connect program and the SC ATE Center, the results will be globally available on the SCATE.org and TeachingTechnician.org websites.

为了满足六县地区对更多高技能信息技术 (IT) 技术人员的需求，斯波坎福尔斯社区学院 (SFCC) 正在与当地学区、社区组织、行业合作伙伴、斯波坎劳动力联盟和华盛顿信息和计算技术卓越中心。该项目调整了新生、在校学生和当地雇主对 IT 技术人员理想性别、技能和学位的看法。主要活动有： (1) 为中学女生举办信息技术夏令营，为中学教师和辅导员举办专业发展研讨会； （2）从IT角度教授科学课程部分，并在校园内开设美国计算机女性（AWS）分会； (3) 与当地雇主合作开发简化的教育就业计划。该项目增加了如何招募和留住女学生以及如何快速让她们为 K-12 毕业做好准备的知识库。它创建了展示技术与科学之间相互依赖关系的课程，并制定了建立健全的工作见习和实习计划的程序。通过该项目建立的最佳实践可以扩展到其他 STEM 学科和技术人员培训计划。通过与华盛顿信息和计算技术卓越中心的合作；该项目的结果将提供给该州所有 34 所社区和技术学院的教师。通过 ATE Mentor Connect 计划和 SC ATE 中心，研究结果将在 SCATE.org 和 TeachingTechnician.org 网站上向全球公布。