The Science Education Resource Virtual Diversity Center

科学多样性中心（Science Diversity Center，SDC）是一个基于网络的综合性一站式科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）教育和研究资源工具，旨在：（1）帮助资助STEM倡议的联邦机构以用户友好的格式与利益相关者、研究人员和其他人获取和共享及时准确的计划和项目信息;（2）提供并加快分享解决国家关键的STEM劳动力能力建设和竞争力需求的战略;（3）增加和扩大目前在这些研究领域代表性不足的群体的个人在STEM职业领域的参与，以及那些教授和支持这些努力的人。经过18个月的战略发展，SDC与Science.gov合作推出，并在后者的网站上展示。在此期间，SDC调查员展示了设计独特的“软件机器人”的可行性和实用性，使SDC能够从其他联邦机构“挖掘”数据;安排数据导入的自动“导入”;提供数据的自动更正，以及核实和验证数据。还开发了自动电子邮件提醒。在其启动过程中，主要研究者与科学和技术政策办公室的教育和劳动力发展小组委员会;姐妹机构;以及非营利STEM和劳动力相关利益相关者提供了实践演示。很明显，SDC工具及其多方面和协调的用途也可以为大多数机构提供支持和信息，以及NSF董事会内部的研究计划，NSF资助的研究中心，并初步为目前正在开发的项目。该补充旨在进一步建立，完善和加强该中心的实际和潜在的技术应用及其概念范围，包括对研究中心需求的直接援助，以及学生和教师的研究经验。

ABSTRACTThe Science Diversity Centerhttp://ScienceDiversityCenter.orgThe Science Diversity Center (SDC) is a web-based comprehensive one-stop science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and research resource tool designed to: (1) assist federal agencies that fund STEM initiatives to obtain and share timely and accurate program and project information in a user-friendly format with stakeholders, researchers and others; (2) provide and expedite sharing of strategies that address the nation's critical STEM workforce capacity-building and competitiveness needs; (3) increase and broaden participation in STEM career fields for individuals from groups currently underrepresented in those fields of study, and for those who teach and otherwise support those efforts. After eighteen months of strategic development, the SDC in partnership with Science.gov, was launched and featured on the latter's web site. During that period the SDC investigator(s) demonstrated the feasibility and utility of designing unique "software robots" that allow the SDC to "mine" data from other federal agencies; schedule automatic "imports" of data imports; provide automatic corrections in the data, as well as to verify and validate the data. Automatic email reminders were also developed. During the course of its start-up, the principal investigator provided hands-on demonstrations with the Office of Science and Technology Policy's Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee; sister agencies; and, nonprofit STEM and workforce related stakeholders. It became apparent that the SDC tool, and its manifold and coordinated uses, could provide support and information also to and for majority institutions, as well as for intra-NSF Directorate research programs, NSF funded research centers, and to preliminarily for projects currently under development. The supplement is sought to further build, refine and enhance the Center's actual and potential technical applications and its conceptual reach, including immediate assistance to research center needs, and student-faculty research experiences.