Sustaining and Expanding Mobile Making in Underserved Communities

在服务欠缺的社区维持和扩大移动制作

• 批准号: 1612775
• 负责人: Edward Price
• 金额: $ 174.03万
• 依托单位: California State University San Marcos Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-15 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1612775&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Sustaining; Expanding; Mobile; Making; Underserved

This project by California State University San Marcos and their collaborators will expand and continue to innovate on a pilot Mobile Making program with the goal of developing a sustainable, regional model for serving underserved, middle-school aged youth in twelve after-school programs in the San Diego region. Evaluation of the current Mobile Making program has documented positive impacts on participants' interest, self-efficacy, and perception of the relevance of Making/STEM in everyday life, and led to a model for engaging underserved youth in Making. The work will focus on implementing the program model sustainably at greater capacity by increasing the number of undergraduate activity leaders, after-school sites, and level of community engagement. The expanded Mobile Making program is expected to engage ~1800 middle school youth at 12 local school sites, with activities facilitated by ~1020 undergraduate CSU-SM STEM majors. The sites are in ethnically diverse and economically disadvantaged neighborhoods, with as many as 90% of students at some sites qualifying for free or reduced price lunch. The undergraduate facilitators are drawn from CSU-SM's diverse student body, which includes 44% underrepresented minorities. Outcomes are expected to include increases in the youth participants' interest, self-efficacy, and perception of the relevance of Making/STEM in everyday life. Positive impacts on the undergraduate facilitators will include broadened technical skills, increased leadership and 21st century skills, and increased lifelong interest in STEM outreach/informal science education. The program is designed to achieve sustainability through innovative means such as involving undergraduate facilitators via Community Service Learning (rather than paid positions), and increased community engagement via development and support of a community of practice including local after-school providers, teachers, Makers, and University members. Evaluation of the program outcomes and lessons learned are expected to result in a comprehensive model for a sustainable, university-based after-school Making program with regional impact in underserved communities. Dissemination to other regions will be leveraged via CSU-SM's membership in the California State University (CSU) system, yielding a potential statewide impact. The support of the CSU Chancellor's Office and input from a CSU implementation group will ensure the applicability of the model to other regional university settings, identify common structural barriers and solutions, and increase the probability of secondary implementations.This work is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understanding of, the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments.

加利福尼亚州立大学圣马科斯及其合作者将扩大并继续创新的飞行员移动制造计划的项目，目的是开发可持续的区域模型，用于为圣地亚哥地区十二个毕业课程提供服务不足的中学年轻青年。 对当前的移动制作计划的评估表明，对参与者的兴趣，自我效能感和对日常生活中制作/STEM相关性的看法的积极影响，并导致了使服务不足的青年参与制作的模型。这项工作将着重于通过增加本科活动领导者的数量，课后地点和社区参与水平，以更大的能力实施计划模型。扩大的移动制造计划预计将在12个当地学校的120名中学年轻人中吸引约1800名中学青年，并由约1020个本科生CSU-SM STEM专业的活动促进。这些地点位于种族多元化和经济上处于弱势群体的社区中，在某些地点，有多达90％的学生可以免费或降低价格午餐。本科促进者来自CSU-SM的多元化学生团体，其中包括44％的代表性少数群体。预计结果将包括青年参与者的兴趣，自我效能感以及对日常生活中制作/茎相关性的看法。对本科促进者的积极影响将包括扩大技术技能，提高领导力和21世纪的技能，以及对STEM外展/非正式科学教育的终生兴趣。该计划旨在通过创新的手段来实现可持续性，例如通过社区服务学习（而不是付费职位）参与本科促进者，并通过建立和支持社区的社区社区来增加社区参与，包括当地的课后提供者，教师，教师，大学成员和大学成员。预计对计划成果和经验教训的评估有望为可持续的，基于大学的课后制作计划提供全面的模型，并在服务不足的社区中产生区域影响。传播到其他地区的传播将通过CSU-SM在加利福尼亚州立大学（CSU）系统中的成员资格杠杆作用，从而产生潜在的全州影响。 The support of the CSU Chancellor's Office and input from a CSU implementation group will ensure the applicability of the model to other regional university settings, identify common structural barriers and solutions, and increase the probability of secondary implementations.This work is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understanding of, the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments.