Montana Minds

Montana Minds为蒙大拿理工大学化学、生物、数学、计算机科学和软件工程专业的18名学生提供为期四年的可续期奖学金。与联邦资助和州政府管理的Gear Up项目合作，蒙大拿州Minds正在从蒙大拿州高中(包括美国原住民高中)招收学生，这些学校的学生在大学中的代表性一直较低，在STEM学科中的代表性尤其低。旨在帮助确保蒙大拿州Minds学生学者的成功和毅力的特殊功能包括注册参加定向学习社区以培养凝聚力，注册大学成功课程以提高学习技能，由一名教师在某一学科内提供建议，使用学生导师/导师在学者中建立社区，并鼓励参加基于学科的学生俱乐部。拓展和丰富蒙大拿州Minds学生学者的学科视野的经验包括旅行访问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、社区价值观和伦理，其中学生与教师和其他学生团队合作，解决真正的问题和问题。学生学者被鼓励回到他们的家乡社区讲述他们的故事，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发表演讲，在全国范围内分享这种模式和最佳做法。除了持续的非正式和年度正式评估外，此次传播的反馈还确保该项目正在实现其目标，即为学生未来在科学、技术、工程和数学领域的成功职业做好准备和教育。

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.