Seeds of Success: Empowering Girls in STEM Through Mentoring, Access, and Leadership

成功的种子：通过指导、接触和领导力为 STEM 领域的女孩赋权

• 批准号: 10688067
• 负责人: Giovanna Guerrero-Medina
• 金额: $ 25.5万
• 依托单位: YALE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2027-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10688067
• 关键词: African American; Attitude; Back; Biological Sciences; Career Exploration; Code; Collection; Communities; Community Outreach; Control Groups; Critical Thinking; Development; Disparity; Education; Educational workshop; Engineering; Ethnic Origin; Experimental Designs; Exposure to; Feedback; Female; Friends; Future; Gender; Goals; Grant; Happiness; Hispanic Americans; Intervention; Latina; Latina Population; Leadership; Learning; Measures; Mentors; Motivation; Outcome; Participant; Pathway interactions; Persons; Population; Preparation; Problem Solving; Puerto Rico; Race; Remunerations; Reporting; Research; Rewards; STEM career; STEM field; Schools; Science; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics; Scientist; Self Efficacy; Series; Shapes; Social Identification; Societies; Stereotyping; Structure; Students; Surveys; Talents; Technology; Training; Underrepresented Populations; Underrepresented Students; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Visit; Woman; career; college; computer science; digital; empowerment; experience; follow-up; girls; graduate school; high school; improved; innovation; interest; junior high school; mathematical ability; meetings; member; ninth grade; optimism; outreach; peer; programs; recruit; role model; skills; social bias; success; therapy design; underserved students; volunteer; webinar; women of color

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) degrees provide access to rewarding, highly remunerated careers, and the opportunity to contribute solutions to society’s problems. Unfortunately, Latinas and African American women comprise less than 4% of the current STEM workforce. Gender stereotypes and a lack of relatable role models, mentors, and early exposure to STEM have been suggested to deter middle school girls away from STEM interests. This project will examine the effect of Seeds of Success, an out-of-school intervention designed to inspire girls to consider careers in STEM by countering gender and race stereotypes through relatable role models; promoting STEM self-efficacy through STEM workshops and activities; and encouraging alignment between cultural and STEM identities through community-based STEM projects. A total of 160 girls in grades 7-9 will be recruited every year to participate in mirror programs in Puerto Rico and New Haven, CT, two populations with high percentages of underrepresented and underserved students. Girls will receive mentoring from female STEM professionals from similar racial and ethnic backgrounds and will interact via webinars with additional diverse STEM role models to learn more about STEM careers. In addition, girls will be exposed to engineering, life sciences, and computer science concepts through online and in-person activities and workshops that promote critical thinking. Finally, girls will be empowered to undertake STEM Ambassadors projects that allow them to have an impact on their community through science. We hypothesize that the program will promote gains in STEM interest, self-efficacy and identity—potentially benefiting future career decisions. Effect will be measured with surveys administered before and after the program to participants and a control group. Longer- term follow-up surveys will track sustained impacts on high school graduation, college entrance, and choice of major. In addition to the 800 girls that the program will impact directly, at least 20,000 additional students and members of the community will be impacted through the STEM Ambassadors projects and the female STEM role model webinars that will be shared live and on Youtube. Thus, by implementing these culturally-relevant, asset-based STEM engagement strategies, Seeds of Success will improve the STEM outcomes of girls in high- need communities and retain the diverse talent we need in the 21st century.

项目概要/摘要 科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 学位提供了获得丰厚回报的高薪机会 不幸的是，拉丁裔和非洲裔的职业生涯以及为社会问题做出贡献的机会。 目前，美国女性在 STEM 劳动力中所占比例不到 4%，而且缺乏性别刻板印象。 有人建议建立相关的榜样、导师和早期接触 STEM 来阻止中学生 该项目将研究成功种子（一种校外干预措施）的效果。 旨在通过反性别和种族成见来激励女孩考虑 STEM 职业 相关的榜样；通过 STEM 研讨会和活动提高 STEM 自我效能感； 通过基于社区的 STEM 项目，使文化和 STEM 身份保持一致。共有 160 名女孩参与其中。 每年都会招募 7-9 年级的学生参加波多黎各和康涅狄格州纽黑文的镜像项目，两个 女生人数不足和服务不足的比例较高的人群将得到指导。 来自相似种族和民族背景的女性 STEM 专业人士将通过网络研讨会与 此外，女孩还将接触到更多多样化的 STEM 榜样，以了解有关 STEM 职业的更多信息。 通过在线和现场活动和研讨会了解工程、生命科学和计算机科学概念 最后，女孩将有权参与 STEM 大使项目，这些项目包括： 让他们通过科学对社区产生影响，我们勇敢地相信该计划将促进。 STEM 兴趣、自我效能感和认同感的提升——可能有利于未来的职业决策。 通过在项目之前和之后对参与者和对照组进行的调查进行测量。 学期后续调查将跟踪对高中毕业、大学入学和选择的持续影响 除了该计划将直接影响的 800 名女孩外，至少还有 20,000 名其他学生和专业。 社区成员将通过 STEM 大使项目和女性 STEM 受到影响 将在 YouTube 上现场分享的榜样网络研讨会因此，通过实施这些与文化相关的活动， 基于资产的 STEM 参与策略，成功的种子将改善高中女孩的 STEM 成果 需要社区并留住 21 世纪所需的多元化人才。

项目成果

Seeds of Success: Empowering Latina STEM Girl Ambassadors Through Role Models, Leadership, and STEM-Related Experiences.

• DOI: pii: https://www.jstemoutreach.org/article/88349-seeds-of-success-empowering-latina-stem-girl-ambassadors-through-role-models-leadership-and-stem-related-experiences
• 发表时间: 2023-09
• 期刊: Journal of STEM outreach
• 作者: Hernández-Matías L;Díaz-Muñoz G;Guerrero-Medina G
• 通讯作者: Guerrero-Medina G