Ezhichigeyeg Anishinaabemag Mii Ge-ondaadiziyeg. What We Can Do to Help Our People Prosper.

这一项目的总体目的是大幅提高利奇湖部落学院土著学生在科学和数学方面的入学率和毕业率，并增加他们对相关技术的熟悉程度。通过实现这些增长，并通过该项目不可或缺的其他干预措施，更多的利奇湖部落学院的学生将选择主修数学和科学学科，并在一所四年制学校继续他们的教育。他们对技术及其多种用途的熟悉程度也将增加。我们提议的成功需要我们认识到两个概念的重要性。首先，原住民学生的学业成功与他们的自我价值感和强烈的自我意识明显相关。其次，他们的认同感与整个LLTC课程中的Anishinaabe重点密切相关。这个项目将由四个部分组成。目前的STEM基础设施将得到加强；LLTC目前有互联网连接和计算机的社区中心将得到改善，以促进外展工作；将建立一个图书馆学习中心；将加强学生服务对招生的关注(Harper 2003)。每个组成部分不仅相互联系，而且与社会数字鸿沟和国家科学基金会的四个目标有关的障碍相互联系。

The overall purpose of this project is to increase significantly the enrollment and graduation rates of Indigenous students at Leech Lake Tribal College (LLTC) in science and mathematics and to increase their familiarity of related technology. By achieving these increases, and working through the other interventions that are integral to this project, more students at Leech Lake Tribal College will choose to major in the math and science disciplines and continue their education at a four-year institution. Their familiarity with technology and its multiple uses will increase as well. The success of our proposal requires that we recognize the importance of two concepts. First, academic success of Indigenous students is clearly related to their feelings of self-worth and having a strong sense of who they are. Second, their sense of identity is strongly tied to an Anishinaabe focus throughout the LLTC curriculum. Four components will make up this project. The current STEM infrastructure will be enhanced; community centers where LLTC currently has internet connectivity and computers will be improved to facilitate outreach efforts; a library learning center will be developed; and student services attention to recruitment will be enhanced (Harper 2003). Each component interconnects not only with each other but also with barriers associated with a social digital divide and with the four goals of the National Science Foundation.