Junior to Undergraduate Mentoring Project

建议0431561初中到本科生辅导计划中央州立大学Cadance A.Lowell这个项目(初中到本科生辅导计划，或称JUMP)针对的是代顿公立学校的高中生，他们的平均成绩是B和C，他们对STEM领域的职业表现出了兴趣。它帮助这些已经有动力的学生成功地进入CSU接受高等教育，主修自然科学、计算机科学、制造工程、水资源管理或数学。每年，20名学生在大三的春季被招募到该项目中，并接受学术培训和指导，为他们高中剩余的学习做准备。这些学生参加了一个为期四周的暑期学术项目，该项目旨在培养应试能力、应用数学和科学方法论。该项目通过招募对STEM领域有兴趣但不是密集的科学和数学课程作业的高中生，促进非裔美国人和妇女更多地参与和留住STEM领域。这些学生要接受暑期指导和学年研究指导。被CSU录取的学生通过STEM领域的现有保留战略进行跟踪和指导。通过科学博览会项目的暑期指导和学年指导，JUMP学生学习开发和测试科学假设，使用适当的实验和实验室技术，使用适当的统计工具分析结果，并以书面和口头形式交流结果。他们得到的指导是提高他们的标准化考试成绩(ACT)和数学技能，以便他们能够以更好的准备和比大多数CSU学生更高的水平进入CSU STEM专业。由于该计划的额外培训和保留干预策略，这些学生有望毕业并在STEM领域继续成功的职业生涯，并成为下一代本科生的导师和榜样。此外，这些本科生还会影响他们的同龄人对STEM职业产生兴趣。

Proposal 0431561Junior to Undergraduate Mentoring ProgramCentral State UniversityCadance A. LowellThis project (Junior to Undergraduate Mentoring Program, or JUMP) is working with high school students in their junior and senior years with B and C averages from the Dayton Public Schools who have expressed an interest in careers in STEM fields. It helps these students, who are already motivated, successfully matriculate to postsecondary education at CSU and major in the natural sciences, computer science, manufacturing engineering, water resources management, or mathematics. Each year, twenty students are recruited into the program by the spring of their junior year and receive academic training and mentoring for the remainder of their high school studies. These students participate in a four-week summer academic program that develops test-taking, applied mathematics, and science methodology.Intellectual Merit. The project promotes increased participation and retention of African-Americans and women in STEM fields by recruiting high school students who have an interest in STEM fields but not intense course work in science and mathematics. These students go through summer instruction and academic year research mentoring. Students who matriculate to CSU are tracked and mentored through existing retention strategies in STEM fields. Through the summer instruction and academic year mentoring on science fair projects, JUMP students learn to develop and test scientific hypotheses, employ appropriate experimental and laboratory techniques, analyze results with appropriate statistical tools, and communicate the results in written and oral form. They are given instruction to improve their standardized test scores (ACT) and math skills so that they may matriculate to CSU STEM majors with enhanced preparation and at a higher level than that typical of the majority of CSU students.Broader Impacts. Because of the program's additional training and retention intervention strategies, these students are expected to graduate and continue on to successful careers in STEM fields and become mentors and role models to the next generation of undergraduate students. In addition, these undergraduates will influence their peers to become interested in STEM careers.