High-Tech Transfer Program Scholars (HTTPS)

该项目每学期向攻读工程学、计算机科学工程学学士学位或科学副学士学位的学术才华和经济困难的学生提供25个奖学金。各种支助服务和相关的学生活动正在加强奖学金获得者的学术经验。该项目确定了一个具体的机会，使学生能够满足该地区高技术产业的需求。因此，它与该地区的公司进行了强有力的互动，为学者提供实习和指导机会。该项目的智力价值在于它利用了先前成功的项目，这些项目提供了现有的学生支持结构，有助于提高目标STEM学科的学术质量。该项目的更广泛的影响是通过实地考察和参加专业协会等活动感受到的，这些活动补充了学生的常规课堂互动，以保持他们对STEM学科的兴趣。该项目还努力将40%的奖学金授予传统上在STEM学科中代表性不足的群体，以促进更多样化的劳动力。从长远来看，该项目通过增加高技术劳动力中高技能、受过良好教育的成员数量，造福社会。

This project is providing twenty-five scholarships per semester to academically talented and financially needy students pursuing Bachelor's degrees in engineering, computer science engineering, or an Associate's degree in science. Various support services and associated student activities are enhancing the academic experience of the scholarship recipients. The project has identified a specific opportunity to prepare students to meet the demands of the high technology industries in its region. Thus it features strong interactions with companies in the area that offer internship and mentoring opportunities for the scholars. The intellectual merit of the project lies in its leveraging of prior successful projects that offer existing student support structures that help to promote academic quality in the targeted STEM disciplines. The project's broader impacts are felt through activities such as field trips and participation in professional societies, that supplement the students' regular classroom interactions so as to maintain their interest in the STEM disciplines. The project also is striving to award forty percent of its scholarships to groups traditionally underrepresented in the STEM disciplines so as to promote a more diverse workforce. In the long term the project is benefiting society by increasing the number of highly skilled, well-educated members in the high-tech workforce.