A Proposal to Provide Technical Assistance to Increase the Participation and Competitiveness of Minority Institutions in the Major Research Instrumentation Program

McBay OIA-0351139少数民族优质教育(QEM)网络是一个非营利性组织，在改善代表不足群体的教育方面发挥了重要作用，这些群体历来没有得到国家教育系统的充分服务。作为麻省理工学院少数族裔优质教育项目的继承者，QEM继续为代表性不足的人群制定有效的STEM教育战略，并专注于阻碍少数族裔接受高质量教育的问题和障碍。为了在STEM中提供有竞争力的研究和研究培训计划，所有参与研究企业的美国教职员工和学生都必须能够获得最先进的仪器，使他们能够进行高质量的研究。授予QEM的这一奖项将继续之前的努力，为少数族裔服务机构提供技术援助；为教师配备必要的工具，以制定针对NSF设备计划(包括重大研究仪器计划)的有竞争力的仪器建议。其结果是，所有美国机构都将有机会获得必要的资金，以促进它们在寻求解开宇宙带来的挑战的努力中所需的资金。

McBay OIA-0351139Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network, a non-profit organization, has been instrumental in improving the education of under-represented groups that have been historically underserved by the nation's educational system. A successor to the Quality Education for Minorities Project based at MIT, QEM continues to develop effective strategies of STEM education for under-represented populations, and focuses on issues and barriers that prevent minorities from receiving a high quality education. In order to offer competitive research and research training programs in STEM, it is imperative that all US faculty and students participating in the research enterprise have access to state-of-the-art instrumentation enabling them to perform high quality research. This award to QEM will continue previous efforts in providing technical assistance to minority -serving institutions; equipping faculty with the essential tools needed to develop competitive instrumentation proposals to NSF's equipment programs, including the Major Research Instrumentation Program. As a result all US institutions will have opportunity to secure funds needed to facilitate their efforts in the quest to unravel the challenges presented by the universe.