Dillard University Women In Space-Force-Sciences High School Experience in Summer (DU SFS WISHES)
Abstract
Project title: Dillard University Women In Space-Force-Sciences High School Experience in Summer (DU SFS WISHES) Executive summery In the last 8 years (2014-2022), the DU WISHES program attracted 490 minority female high school students from disadvantage school districts communities in Southern US states like Louisiana, Alabama, and as far as Florida and Arizona where 38 percent of the participants retained in STEM fields and 9 percent in medical fields. This program contributed to the success of DU physics department to be number two in graduating Black females in Physics in the USA. This proposed outreach program is a continuation of the successful DU WISHES program over the years to support workforce in DAF. The overarching goal of this unique summer program is targeting disadvantage, underrepresented and especially black female in high schools and veteran/current military high school female-students to increase the awareness of STEM fields and increase the capacity in AF workforce which will be grounded in space science and force in STEM. By increasing the recruitment activities, ensure the retention in STEM majors at the high school and undergraduate students in STEM fields by providing the necessary systemic mentoring in research topic related to DAF, tutoring support systems and establish a pipeline to DU University STEM disciplines. In addition, the program will establish a new open-mind communities learners which are aware of using new pedagogies to increase the Inquiry-based activities and skills through hands-on and minds-on training on critical thinking and exploration education activities to discover Space science by doing space sciences which will inspire them and to ask question how, why, and explore the reasoning behind the observation of the outcomes of the experiments.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 15, 2023
- Accession Number
- AD1230214
Entities
People
- Abdalla Darwish
- David Rossmanith
Organizations
- Dillard University