This document discusses strategies for engaging youth in STEM through astronomy and technology programs. It outlines a program called HOMAGO which offers monthly teen hangouts focused on topics like coding, astronomy, and game design without exams or learning objectives. The program partnered 75 high school girls with 37 STEM mentors. Research suggests providing youth access to STEM disciplines and mentors can positively influence minority student success. Authentic engagement is also key, highlighting skills like problem-solving and collaboration over exams. The document advocates expanding such programs' reach through community partnerships to serve more underprivileged youth.
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2. STEM workforce for the future
The United States alone faces a
shortage of 140,000 to 190,000
people with deep analytical skills,
and a further lack of 1.5 million
managers capable of analyzing
Big Data and making decisions
based on their findings.
Manyika et al. 2011
3. Science and Technology
Literacy
Success in a technology rich world
and equitable access to the
resources of modern society is the
civil rights issue of the 21st
century, with women, minorities
and people of low socioeconomic
status being the ‘designated serfs
of the information age’
Moses & Cobb 2002
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9. Teen Hangouts
November: Building Websites and
Coding
December: Capturing the Cosmos
January: Programming 3D
February: 3D Printing
March: Astronomy
April: Virtual Exhibits
May: Mapping
June: Game Design
10. Teen Hangouts
No Learning Objectives
No Exams
This is NOT school!
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13. GDH 2014
75 High School Girls
37 STEM Professional Mentors
.... cultural, stereotypes that prevail so
strongly that most young women think
“typical” scientists are men.....
Hill et al. 2013
14. PROVIDE YOUTH ACCESS TO STEM
DISCIPLINES AND MENTORS.
Mentoring is one of several factors
that can positively influence the
success of racial and ethnic minority
students in STEM.
Museus et al. 2011
Seeing women who have succeeded
in STEM is a vital for inspiring and
motivating young women, especially
when they can relate to these role
models as people with lives outside of
the lab.
Evans, Whigham, & Wang, 1995;
Liston et al., 2008
15. STEM Workshops
Girls show higher levels of
engagement when activities
encourage:
• Collaboration and cooperative peer
engagement (Brickhouse et al.
2000; Stake & Nickens 2005;
Williams 2006)
• Problem-solving activities that allow
multiple paths and many possible
answers (Inkpen 1999)
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21. PROVIDE AUTHENTIC ENGAGEMENT FOR
STUDENTS
STEM subjects need to be
delivered in tangible and
reallife oriented ways.
Traurig et. al 2010
22. STEM Skills
Highlighting the unexpected
- Communication
- Team work
- Creativity
Building confidence with the expected
- Coding
- Problem Solving
24. EXPAND THE ADLER’S REACH IN
COMMUNITIES OF NEED
The Adler recognizes that transportation costs and lack of familiarity with
museums can prevent many Chicago families from coming to the Museum
Campus. Committed to engaging a broader cross-section of people with
science, Adler leaders are developing innovative programs—in partnership with
CPS, the Chicago Park District, Chicago Public Libraries, Hive Chicago
Learning Network, and other community organizations—to reach students and
their families where they are. Five years from now, a student’s first encounter
with Adler programming may be at their school, neighborhood library, park, or
community center.
25.
26.
27. Alyssa Hui (left) and Terry Melo (right) spent
most of their summer writing blog posts on
Zooniverse Citizen Science projects, giving
presentations to their peers and Adler
visitors, and doing scientific research… but
they also spent some time eating candy and
cupcakes with their mentor Dr. Bans.
33. Build students’ STEM related skills and content
knowledge.
• Students demonstrated significant gains in STEM-related skills and
museum related-content knowledge.
34. Reinforce positive attitudes toward museums
and STEM subjects.
• Exposure to the Adler positively affected attitudes, even from those
with lower levels of involvement.
• The students with the greatest involvement experienced the greatest
positive attitudinal impact.
• Positive attitudes were the results of encountering diverse
experiences and feeling challenged.
35. Develop a suite of programs that allows for
multiple entry points to engender a sense of
belonging within the scientific and museum
community.
• The partnership programs were able to engage a diverse community
of AFAHS students and other under-represented teens.
• Programs that empowered youth to contribute made them feel highly
valued.
• The diverse suite of programs provided opportunities successful in
gaining student engagement beyond what was mandatory.
36.
37. Engaging Youth with Astronomy and
Technology
• Find Partners
• Be a Mentor
• HOMAGO!
• Multiple Entry Points
• Financial Incentives Work
• Food and Transport
Editor's Notes
Tech literacy is the new literacy.
You can’t access the world without tech these days.
Science literacy is empowerment.
But mostly science and tech are FUN and everyone should enjoy them the way everyone can enjoy a good book without a degree in English lit.
What are the schools doing to meet these needs?
They are struggling – they are lacking resources and training.
Cultural institutions like the Adler need to step up.
We at the Adler are really well place to do this as we have Zooniverse, Far Horizons and an active Research group.
AUTHENTIC
Plus – we don’t have to worry about exams!
A common approach in youth work is HOMAGO
The GO in HOMAGO
Hanging out – quite literally!
Last month they took stuff apart.
How many of you started that way?
Girls’ interest, achievement, and retention in STEM is also strongly shaped
by positive STEM/CS interactions with peers (Azmitia & Cooper 2001; Herzig 2004;
Kindermann 2007; Margolis et al. 2000; Robnett & Leaper 2012; Stake & Nickens 2005; Zeldin
& Pajares 2000; Riegle-Crumb et al. 2006).
Adolescent girls tend to feel less supported in their
STEM/CS interests than boys (Kessels 2005; Robnett & Leaper 2012; Stake & Nickens 2005).
Notably, in courses where peer relationships are encouraged, girls have more positive perceptions
of themselves as scientists (Stake & Nickens 2005).
here is a rich literature suggesting that a major factor in young people’s, especially
girls’ and in particular minority girls’, reluctance to participate in STEM/CS is that
they perceive the identities of STEM/CS professionals as incongruent with their own
(Boaler 1997; Lightbody & Durndell 1996; Mendick 2006; Sjøberg & Schreiner 2007; Walkerdine
1998).
Exposure to their personal career stories can not only prevent girls from developing negative attitudes towards
STEM/CS careers, but can reverse previously formed negative perceptions (Finson 2002; Stout
et al. 2011; Townsend 2002).
Through sharing their work experiences, these mentors can directly
address the misperception that STEM/CS careers are solitary, lacking creativity, relevance to the
real world, and positive impact on people’s every day lives; misperceptions that are particularly
dissuasive for girls (Jessup & Sumner 2005; Jones & Clarke 1995; Fisher & Margolis 2003; Yardi
& Bruckman 2007).
Structured Hacking – less intimidating.
We couldn’t throw them in a room with a bunch of laptops.
Mobile phone hacking
Programming Robots
Water Testing
Samples donated from the Shedd!!!
The science of candy.
Exo-planet workshop
We are very well place to do that.
We didn’t want only young women from the suburbs who were already excited about STEM
Once we get them in the door we can start doing some STEM programs.
Web-making workshops
Coding with purpose
Astro bio bloggers
Girls – Projects with Women Researchers
Laura T.
Today the Astro-Science Workshop students and the Illinois Space Grant Consortium interns launched a high altitude balloon that reached a maximum altitude of 90,000 feet with a payload including a Geiger counter, a pressure sensor, GPS tracker, and a two-way communication system.
Brings in families
Addressing “Threshold” fear.
Results of recent evaluation.
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The target audience for the Adler is now largely made
up of youth from low-income areas, and partnership
programs would benefit from compensation or
incentives for its participants, even at minimal levels.
Offering additional paid internships and stipend-based
programs would enable these teens to feel more financially
secure, and make Adler programs more competitive
with part-time job opportunities and other paid
programs around the city