Twenty-First Century Technology Scholars

二十一世纪科技学者

• 批准号: 0422404
• 负责人: Marie Plumb
• 金额: $ 39.6万
• 依托单位: Jamestown Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-15 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0422404&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Twenty; First; Century; Technology; Scholars

The project is awarding thirty scholarships per year for four years to students enrolled in a computer science and engineering science transfer programs, and digital/computer and mechanical technology programs. The scholars are being provided with a variety of quality support structures that emphasizes community building. Included are weekly study sessions to increase student connections with instructors, breakfast orientations, chat rooms, student mentoring, discipline specific one-hour refresher courses, and common enrollment in classes. Students are keeping journals and sharing the information with their advisors and/or the study session instructor, which is providing information about students' needs and the effectiveness of student support activities. The scholars are being supported through an Angel account, a course management software package similar to WebCT or Blackboard, which is fostering inter-group communication, group project work, and communication with the students' mentors. The students are making professional connections through strong connections with local industries, which lie mainly within the manufacturing sector. The program is targeting women and underrepresented classes of students. Female faculty members in physics, math and computer science are serving as role models. Techniques that are being employed to support and retain women includes hands-on active learning styles in the physics curriculum, forming lab and study groups that respond to gender needs, and providing a family friendly atmosphere in an open lab where students gather to work on problems, eat lunch, or listen to music. A conceptual physics course is being offered to recruit female students to pursue technology or science as a field of study.

该项目在四年内每年向就读计算机科学和工程科学转学项目以及数字/计算机和机械技术项目的学生颁发三十份奖学金。学者们获得了各种强调社区建设的优质支持结构。其中包括每周的学习课程，以增加学生与教师的联系、早餐指导、聊天室、学生指导、特定学科的一小时复习课程以及班级的共同注册。学生记日记并与他们的顾问和/或学习课程讲师分享信息，这提供了有关学生需求和学生支持活动有效性的信息。学者们通过 Angel 帐户获得支持，这是一个类似于 WebCT 或 Blackboard 的课程管理软件包，它促进小组间沟通、小组项目工作以及与学生导师的沟通。学生们通过与当地工业（主要是制造业）的紧密联系建立了专业联系。该计划针对的是女性和代表性不足的学生群体。物理、数学和计算机科学领域的女教师正在发挥榜样作用。用于支持和留住女性的技术包括物理课程中的实践主动学习方式，组建满足性别需求的实验室和学习小组，以及在开放实验室中提供家庭友好的氛围，让学生聚集在一起解决问题、吃午餐或听音乐。正在开设概念物理课程，招收女学生以追求技术或科学作为研究领域。