Avendano-Uribe Bryann E, Lombana-Bermudez Andres, Flórez Laura V, Chaparro Elisa, Hernandez-Morales Adriana Carolina, Archbold Jorge, Buitrago-Casas Juan Camilo, Porras Ana Maria
ScienteLab, Bogota, Colombia.
HIT Lab NZ, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Front Res Metr Anal. 2022 Jun 28;7:898167. doi: 10.3389/frma.2022.898167. eCollection 2022.
Currently, there is limited insight on the role that scientific diasporas can play in STEAM education in Latin America. Here, we present the Science Clubs Colombia (Clubes de Ciencia Colombia-SCC) program, a pioneering STEAM capacity-building initiative led by volunteer scientists to engage youth and children from underserved communities in science. The program brings together researchers based in Colombia and abroad to lead intensive project-based learning workshops for young students in urban and rural areas. These projects focus on channeling the students' technical and cognitive scientific aptitudes to tackle challenges of both local and global relevance. The program provides high-quality STEAM education adapted to communities' needs and articulates long-lasting international collaborations using the mobility of the Colombian diaspora. The program's success is tangible via its sustained growth and adaptability. Since its first version in 2015, 722 volunteer scientists living abroad or in Colombia have collaborated to create 364 clubs with the participation of 9,295 students. We describe elements of the SCC program that lead to a scalable and reproducible outcome to engage science diasporas in STEAM education. Additionally, we discuss the involvement of multiple stakeholders and the generation of international networks as potential science diplomacy outcomes. The SCC program strengthens the involvement of Latin American youth in science, demonstrates the potential of engaging scientific diasporas in science education, and enriches connections between the Global South and the Global North.
目前，对于海外科学人才在拉丁美洲的科学、技术、工程、艺术和数学（STEAM）教育中所能发挥的作用，人们了解有限。在此，我们介绍哥伦比亚科学俱乐部（Clubes de Ciencia Colombia - SCC）项目，这是一项由志愿科学家牵头的开拓性STEAM能力建设倡议，旨在让服务不足社区的青少年和儿童参与科学活动。该项目汇聚了哥伦比亚国内外的研究人员，为城乡地区的年轻学生举办以项目为基础的强化学习工作坊。这些项目专注于引导学生的技术和认知科学能力，以应对具有地方和全球意义的挑战。该项目提供符合社区需求的高质量STEAM教育，并利用哥伦比亚侨民的流动性建立持久的国际合作。通过其持续增长和适应性，该项目的成功是显而易见的。自2015年首个版本推出以来，722名居住在国外或哥伦比亚的志愿科学家合作创建了364个俱乐部，有9295名学生参与其中。我们描述了SCC项目中能够带来可扩展和可复制成果的要素，以使海外科学人才参与到STEAM教育中。此外，我们讨论了多个利益相关者的参与以及国际网络的形成，将其作为潜在的科学外交成果。SCC项目加强了拉丁美洲青年对科学的参与，展示了让海外科学人才参与科学教育的潜力，并丰富了全球南方与全球北方之间的联系。
