Connect With 'Science': Opportunities in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

该项目提供奖学金，科学，技术或数学本科专业在每一年的计划。被选中的学生有资格获得最多八个学期的奖学金支持。招聘工作与学院的招生办公室协调，并在周边地区的具体活动促进这一机会。该项目的目标是强调数学和科学大学预科课程的地区公立高中，包括学生人数严重不足的学校。一旦被招募到该计划中，奖学金获得者将利用旨在提高学生成功率的学生支持服务。这项工作的智力价值在于研究记录了学生群体参与，保留，指导和S-STEM项目元素之间的联系。该计划利用了学院正在进行的计划和资源，并直接补充了正在进行的NSF-STEP项目，目前处于第二年的早期。其中包括：一个以STEM为主题的长达一年的学习社区;所有入门课程的学生主导的学习课程;所有入学学生所需的知识基础课程的队列部分;第一年研讨会的专用部分; STEM专业的早期本科研究计划;以及通过本科研究办公室提供的其他研究计划。S-STEM项目的其他活动包括由学院职业发展中心协调的活动。获得S-STEM奖学金的学生参加每月一次的系列研讨会，重点是职业发展，就业信息（包括参观当地设施的旅行）以及有关研究生课程的信息。这项工作的更广泛影响在于奖学金有可能招募，教育和指导学术上有才华，经济上有需要的学生，以获得科学，技术和数学学位，并进入STEM劳动力或继续他们的研究生教育。

The project provides scholarships to science, technology, or mathematics undergraduate majors during each year of the program. Selected students are eligible for up to eight semesters of scholarship support. Recruitment efforts are coordinated with the College's Admissions Office, and specific activities in the surrounding region promote this opportunity. The project targets area public high schools that emphasize math and science college preparation courses, including schools with significant underrepresented student populations. Once recruited into the program, scholarship recipients take advantage of student support services designed to increase student success. The intellectual merit of this work lies in research that documents the ties among student cohort engagement, retention, mentoring, and S-STEM project elements. This program takes advantage of ongoing programs and resources already in place at the College and directly complements an ongoing NSF-STEP project, currently early in its second year. These include: a STEM-themed year-long learning community; student-led study sessions for all introductory gateway courses; cohort sections of the intellectual foundations course required by all entering students; dedicated sections of First-Year Seminars; an early undergraduate research program for STEM majors; and other research programs available through the Office of Undergraduate Research. Additional activities for the S-STEM project include activities coordinated by the College's Career Development Center. Students receiving S-STEM scholarships attend a monthly seminar series focusing on career development, employment information (including trips to visit local facilities), and information about graduate programs. The broader impact of this work lies in the potential for the scholarships to recruit, educate, and mentor academically talented, financially needy students to earn science, technology, and math degrees and enter the STEM workforce or continue their education at the graduate level.