美国中小学国防教育的实践路径 科技能力支撑：军地融合的STEM国防教育项目 国防STEM教育联盟

The CHIPS and Science Act recognized the importance of exposure to innovation and entrepreneurial concepts at the K-12 level by codifying into law the intention of broadening the base of Americans engaged in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR) has long sought ways to strengthen partnerships across diverse sectors of the U.S. research ecosystem to meet a range of national challenges, including addressing the issue of STEM education. On February 6 and 7, 2024, GUIRR convened a workshop for members and invited guests that focused on K-12 STEM education to understand how to shape the scientific workforce of the future.

… guidelines that encourage vertical integration of STEM curricula from K–12 through higher education, with explicit connections to defense and intelligence career pathways. Adoption of …

… K-12 teachers to work with us in developing engineering resources within the core K-12 disciplines— math, science, … Because the aerospace and defense industries have a higher need …

SAMSAT, the San Antonio Museum of Science and Technology, has built a STEM learning ecosystem for its immediate community, and for the city working with partners. The work is centered at Port San Antonio, a former Air Force Base campus and SAMSAT’s host and partner. This chapter qualitatively describes the effort, including how research and data informs our work. Building on our museum platform and Port redevelopment, SAMSAT engages K-12, industry, academia, government, and non-profits, channeling the campus’s energy. The chapter includes brief history and context. It describes our education strategy of inspiration, engagement, and pathways. It highlights models, pedagogy, local and national partnerships, and measurement and evaluation. Four programs are described: a structural engineering course for middle schools, an eclipse celebration, our Mayor’s smart city challenge, and our citywide esports league. We close describing connections to social-emotional learning, and practices that help transform lives in our community.

… The basic framework of the DoD STEM Strategic Plan is presented in this section of the … Engineering Center„s STEM outreach through the STEP Program supports each of DoD‟s four …

… (within the school year) impact on the students’ understanding of the STEM topics, and 3. Longitudinal assessment - To see if students are pursuing DoD STEM careers after graduation. …

The United States should treat STEM talent development as a core pillar of national security, but opportunities for STEM workforce training and education have not developed in a coordinated manner.

… programs being conducted at PMRF. This results in the PMRF workforce requiring other DoD … of the Inland Empire STEP Program and also is one of the DoD activities that provides …

The U.S. Military Academy (USMA) and U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory, the Army’s corporate research laboratory (ARL), have collaboratively developed a model to enable educationally enriching science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workshops, held at various locations across the nation. Workshops, led by West Point faculty and cadets, provide hands-on STEM experiences, such as robotics, bridge design, wind energy, and circuit design, to underserved and underrepresented middle and high school students. Concurrently, ARL-led workshops engage parents, educators, government and industry partners, and other key stakeholders on ways to connect the school curriculum to real-life experiences and create viable resources to encourage students to participate in multi-level STEM programs. We discuss the model that has evolved from our outreach and its impact.

… STEM disciplines among our youth is multi-dimensional in character. Therefore this paper offers educational outreach … collaboration of HBCU/MIs funded by the Department of Defense. …

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… the specific role of the defense sector in STEM education and reflect the broader … alliance provides a window into broader tensions surrounding equity and diversity in STEM education, …

We begin with a brief review of the progress being made by the professional space physics community to increase diversity and inclusion. These efforts have been primarily centered on overcoming barriers that have inhibited existing underrepresented minority space physics professionals from being successful at all levels of academic, mission, and administrative achievement. While we find these remediations to be essential, we must recognize that our ability to achieve a diverse professional workforce representative of the US population depends on achieving a diverse population of researchers entering the field. That means the greatest gains can only be achieved by actions that reach into the educational system. We identify and discuss possible issues within the traditional formal education and developmental environment of young inquiring minds, including gaps in resources, the pressure to bring in income during secondary school and graduate school matriculation, and the cultural biases against research careers. We highlight the importance of local mentorship and age-appropriate research-like activities within all levels of education, including Kindergarten through bachelor’s and advanced degree programs, as a means of overcoming barriers to becoming a respected contributing member of the space physics research community. We note these issues extend beyond space physics into all STEM fields. These activities can provide road maps into research careers, practice age-appropriate skills, and provide an avenue for current researchers to become mentors. Specifically, we advocate the development of a formal program of professional chapters for colleges and age-appropriate research-oriented programs for K-12 schools and encourage strong collaborative affiliations with other professional societies. At the core of this is the development and implementation of informed, persistent mentoring.

… from this DoD-sponsored program’s four distinct forms of K-12 … In these 1 to 1.5-hour direct STEM activities, Navy STEM … to develop comprehensive K-12 STEM pipelines to generate …

… K-12 education, training, mentoring, and outreach activities to integrate engineering concepts in science … in the context of a DoD sponsored project, the graduate researcher noted an …

The purpose of this qualitative research study was to explore student outcomes related to engineering skills and team relationship development during a three-week intensive engineering apprenticeship program (EAP) during the summer of 2019. This EAP introduced students to engineering by placing them in teams and asking them to build and customize the design of an underwater remotely operated vehicle (U-ROV). Students were also tasked with competing with the U-ROV in a timed obstacle course at the end of the program. In this study we examined how students participated in and built intra-team working relationships within the EAP using an embedded graduate student researcher, who simultaneously functioned as a team member, and an approach informed by ethnographic research methods. Data were generated by the graduate student researcher through a reflective journaling practice, design artifacts detailing materials produced by students, as well as debriefings conducted with program mentors and directors. In accordance with an approved IRB protocol, de-identified data were segmented, coded, and then codes were recombined during multiple successive coding passes to develop themes that describe common threads relating student experiences in the program. The findings provide insights into how students (a) engaged with the outreach program tasks, (b) developed relationships with other members of their assigned teams and program mentors, (c) worked through the engineering design process, and (d) worked to achieve stated program goals and outcomes. The findings of this study are important for developing deeper understandings about how high school age students experience intensive engineering outreach programs that are designed to introduce them to real-world engineering design and development. Findings can be used to inform new approaches for developing and assessing engineering outreach programs.

… — which was stood up last year to coalesce the Defense Department’s many disparate AI projects — are working to better reach out to STEM talent. “Like our counterparts in private …

Abstract Using Content Analysis to Evaluate Student Inquiry-Based Learning:The Case of High School Students Preparing for a Cyber Defense CompetitionAlthough it has been demonstrated that inquiry-based learning is a successful method to increasestudent understanding in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) areas, aswell as facilitate critical thinking, there have been few studies investigating the interactions anddiscussions among students participating in group inquiry-based learning projects. We believethat by evaluating the chat logs from a high school cyber defense competition (CDC) we can addto our understanding of student learning, interests in computer engineering, and motivations forstudying security, networking and information assurance.The high school students who participated in the CDC were part of an information technology(IT) club formed in the fall of the academic year to study network and information security usingan inquiry-based approach. Students spent the year using the learning materials provided by alarge Midwestern university, asking their own questions about network security and informationassurance, exploring additional resources and determining how to solve the challenges presentedto them. The capstone event for students who participated in the IT club is a day-long CDC,where students remotely design, configure and maintain a set of servers and a network in asecure manner one month prior to the competition.This paper utilizes content analysis where the chat conversations of students are quantitativelyanalyzed for overarching themes and questions. The paper examines the logs from the 2007 highschool cyber defense competition and categorizes the conversations as to content, as well as tothe topic change over time. As the deadline draws near to the competition, the conversationthemes change to reflect what the students are most interested in at that point in the setupprocess. Since college students in Computer Engineering provide technical support for themonth remote setup leading up to the CDC, there is learning both between teams of studentsfrom different high schools, and among college and high school students. The study shows theinteractions in an online community of high school and college students who don’t know eachother, but are working toward their goal of configuring a secure, fully functional network.While coding of content analysis relies heavily upon manual coding which is time consuming, itprovides a richness of understanding of student learning and interactions in inquiry-basedlearning that other methods do not cover. While we have five years of chat log data, this paper isan evaluation of the first year of chat logs and constructs the framework and methodology forutilizing content analysis to understand student learning and motivations in inquiry-basedlearning programs. We believe that building this framework allows us, and others, to extend it tothe examination of other types of logs where students are communicating to each other bothsocially and about their coursework and projects. Course management software, as well as socialmedia, has similar log files and, with the appropriate permissions, evaluations of these messagescould also provide a valuable look into what students are thinking and discussing while they arelearning.

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… education has found it difficult to gain traction in the midst of 2001’s No Child Left Behind Act, which focuses public K–12 … pool by improving K–12 STEM education and developing and …

This report presents the findings of a two-year study by the Committee on Standards for K-12 Engineering Education. The committee assessed the potential value and feasibility of developing content standards for engineering education at the K-12 level. The report includes a table of contents and the following chapters: Introduction, Arguments For and Against Content Standards for K-12 Engineering Education, Leveraging Existing Standards to Improve K-12 Engineering Education, Conclusions and Recommendations, and Appendices. A PDF of this report if free for download or users may purchase a paperback copy.Â

… of the field of K–12 science education, synthesizing data … , including K–12 teachers, district and state science supervisors… about the components of science education in the US Drawing …

… He is perhaps best known for his unending devotion to science education, which he served … Moore was especially devoted to defending the teaching of evolution as an essential compo…