Montana Minds

蒙大拿思想

• 批准号: 0631161
• 负责人: Douglas Coe
• 金额: $ 48.95万
• 依托单位: Montana Technological University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-10-01 至 2011-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0631161&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Montana; Minds

Montana Minds provides four-year renewable scholarships for 18 students majoring in chemistry, biology, mathematics, computer science, and software engineering at Montana Tech. Working with the federally funded and state administered program Gear Up, Montana Minds is recruiting students from Montana high schools (including Native American high schools) where students have been traditionally underrepresented in college and particularly underrepresented in the STEM disciplines.Special features designed to help insure the success and perseverance of Montana Minds student scholars include enrollment in targeted Learning Communities to foster cohesiveness, enrollment in a College Success course to sharpen study skills, advising within a discipline by a single faculty member, the use of student mentor/tutors to build community among the scholars, and encouraged participation in disciplinary based student clubs. Broadening and enriching experiences that expand and stimulate the disciplinary horizons of Montana Minds student scholars include travel to visit national science and engineering laboratories, mentored attendance at a national meeting, and exposure to the methods, community values, and ethics of scholarly activity through undergraduate research where students work with faculty and other students in teams attacking authentic questions and problems. Student scholars are encouraged to return to their home communities to tell their stories and stimulate other high school students to follow in their paths. Montana Minds is sharing the model and best practices nationally through presentations at professional association meetings and publications. Feedback from this dissemination, in addition to continuous informal and annual formal assessment, assures that the project is meeting its goals of preparing and educating students for future successful careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Montana Minds 为蒙大拿理工学院化学、生物学、数学、计算机科学和软件工程专业的 18 名学生提供四年期可续期奖学金。 Montana Minds 与联邦资助和州管理的 Gear Up 计划合作，正在从蒙大拿州高中（包括美洲原住民高中）招收学生，这些学校的学生传统上在大学中代表性不足，特别是在 STEM 学科中代表性不足。旨在帮助确保 Montana Minds 学生学者的成功和毅力的特殊功能包括注册有针对性的学习社区以培养凝聚力、注册大学成功 提高学习技能的课程，由一名教师在学科内提供建议，利用学生导师/导师在学者之间建立社区，并鼓励参与基于学科的学生俱乐部。 拓宽和丰富经验，扩大和激发蒙大拿州思想学生学者的学科视野，包括参观国家科学和工程实验室，指导参加全国会议，以及通过本科生研究接触学术活动的方法、社区价值观和道德规范，学生与教师和其他学生一起研究真实的问题和问题。 我们鼓励学生学者回到自己的家乡讲述他们的故事，并激励其他高中生追随他们的道路。 Montana Minds 通过在专业协会会议和出版物上的演示，在全国范围内分享该模型和最佳实践。 除了持续的非正式和年度正式评估之外，此次传播的反馈确保了该项目实现了为学生在科学、技术、工程和数学领域未来成功职业生涯做好准备和教育的目标。