TALPA: Technology Applications and Learning toward Professional Achievement

0125272施罗德该奖项授予阿拉斯加大学安克雷奇分校，以支持下述活动36个月。该提案是应创新伙伴计划征集(NSF 0179)的要求提交的。该活动的合作伙伴包括阿拉斯加大学安克雷奇分校(牵头机构)、阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯分校、夏威夷大学马诺阿分校、华盛顿大学、福特汽车公司、喷气推进实验室、波音公司、金伯利·克拉克、美国铝业公司、IBM柯克兰-华盛顿分局、微软、面粉丹尼尔、阿拉斯加技术中心、西北北极学区、白天鹅高中、雅卡马民族邦联乐队和部落、纳纳/唐纳工程师和纳纳/科尔特工程师。活动将把计算机技术带到偏远社区、为高中生提供在科学和工程领域的职业愿景，将学生与工业界和学术界的专业人士联系起来，为产业合作伙伴提供经过技术培训的劳动力，并开发长期维持这一努力所需的使能基础设施。拟议的创新学术机构将在合作伙伴关系中的每个州的偏远农村社区建立一个现代化的计算机实验室，提供空间、公用设施和互联网接入。准备上大学的高中课程中的高三和高年级学生将成为目标。这些学生将接受最先进的硬件和软件培训。学生将在合作伙伴公司进行暑期实习，在任何合作伙伴大学，他们将获得现金和奖学金。这些学生将在高中毕业后的那个夏天参加一个暑期衔接项目，为上大学做准备。行业合作伙伴每年为桥梁项目提供50万美元。潜在的经济影响该项目将为数百名高中生提供以技术为基础的教育和工作机会。这些学生来自人口稀少的农村州，大多数是美洲原住民。经济利益来自于行业合作伙伴的高技能劳动力。潜在的社会影响目标学生是来自阿拉斯加、夏威夷和华盛顿农村的土著美国人。该计划可以在任何拥有土著人口的地区复制。过去，已有300多名学生从实习项目中“毕业”。目前的奖项将提供所需的资源，以吸引更多的学生，提供更多的计算机设施，并与更多的行业合作伙伴互动。

0125272 Schroeder This award is to the University of Alaska-Anchorage to support the activity described below for 36 months. The proposal was submitted in response to the Partnerships for Innovation Program Solicitation (NSF 0179).PartnersThe partners for this activity include the University of Alaska-Anchorage (Lead Institution), University of Alaska-Fairbanks, University of Hawaii-Manoa, University of Washington, Ford Motor Company, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, The Boeing Company, Kimberly Clark, Alcoa, IBM Kirkland-Washington, Bureau of Reclamation, Microsoft, Flour Daniel, Alaska Technical Center, Northwest Arctic Borough School District, White Swan High School, Confederate Bands and Tribes of the Yakama Nation, NANA/DOWL Engineers, and NANA/Colt Engineers.Proposed ActivitiesThe effort will bring computer technology to remote communities, provide high school students with a vision of a career in science and engineering, connect students with professionals in industry and academia, provide industrial partners with a technologically trained workforce, and develop the enabling infrastructure necessary to sustain the effort long-term.Proposed InnovationThe academic institutions will establish a modern computer laboratory with space, utilities, and Internet access in a remote rural community in each state in the partnership. High school juniors and seniors in a college-ready high school curriculum will be targeted. These students will be given state-of-the-art hardware and software training. Students will have summer internships with partner companies where they will be paid cash as well as scholarship money with any of the partner universities. The students will attend a summer bridging program the summer after graduation from high school to prepare them for college. The industry partners provide $500,000 annually for the bridging program.Potential Economic ImpactThe program will provide hundreds of high school students with access to technology-based education and jobs. These students are from sparsely populated rural states, and most are Indigenous Americans. The economic benefits result from a highly skilled workforce for the industry partners.Potential Societal ImpactThe targeted students are Indigenous Americans from rural Alaska, Hawaii, and Washington. The program can be replicated for any region with an indigenous population. More than 300 students have "graduated" from the internship program in the past. The current award will provide needed resources to attract more students, provide more computer facilities, and interact with more industrial partners.