GeoPREP Track 2: Expanding the Geoscience Pathway

GeoPREP是一个多轨道项目，服务于长岛高需求学区的高中生、纽约州立大学石溪分校未被充分代表的少数族裔本科生以及该地区在职和职前地球科学教师。这个轨道2 OEDG项目解决了纽约州学生缺乏学术后续机会的问题，这些学生对地球科学的兴趣已经被8年级或9年级的地球科学所激发。它扩展了在Track 1 OEDG项目中创建的成功的规划模型。这些模式包括针对高中生的密集夏季住宿地球科学研究计划，一系列在职教师培训研讨会，以开发新的跨学科地球科学课程，以及通过与布鲁克海文国家实验室的合作，来自国家同步加速器光源的网络广播和开放空间管理计划的进一步发展。新的组成部分包括为高中生引入学年大学实验室访问计划，提供扩展的地球科学实践学习活动，为路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）的本科生提供奖学金支持，以及对代表性不足的少数民族学生对地球科学的态度和可能的偏见进行纵向研究。

GeoPREP is a multi-track program serving high school students from high-needs school districts on Long Island, underrepresented minority undergraduates at SUNY Stony Brook, and in-service and pre-service Earth science teachers in the region. This Track 2 OEDG project addresses the lack of scholastic follow-up opportunities for students in New York State whose interest in the geosciences has been whetted by 8th or 9th grade Earth Science. It expands on successful program models created during a Track 1 OEDG project. These models include an intensive summer residential geoscience research program for high school students, a series of in-service teacher training workshops to develop new interdisciplinary geoscience curricula, and, through partnership with Brookhaven National Laboratory, webcasts from the National Synchrotron Light Source and further development of the Open Space Stewardship Program. New components include the introduction of an academic-year university laboratory visitation program for high school students that provides for expanded hands-on geoscience learning activities, scholarship support for undergraduates in the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP), and a longitudinal study of attitudes and possible biases regarding the geosciences by underrepresented minority students.