Students Actualizing Talent at Education?s Subsequent Stages (STATESS)

中佛罗里达大学（UCF）每年从科学和工程学科（特别关注数学和计算机科学）中选出20名学术上有天赋的学生，根据经济需要，获得4000美元至1万美元不等的奖学金。招收的学生是以下三组中的一组(a)最近转到大学的学生，(b)本科新生和(c)一年级研究生。UCF正在为新转学生提供道义和经济支持，以帮助他们过渡，并确保他们成功完成STEM领域的学士学位。尤其是大三学生，他们正处于大学学习的关键时期，因为这是他们开始学习专业高级课程的时候。S-STEM导师的支持确保这些转学生在这一关键时期得到支持。对大一本科生的支持是在他们适应更独立的生活时，为他们提供急需的学习技能发展和学术指导。对即将入学的研究生的支持正在稳定他们向更高需求的过渡，并为他们提供了从就业义务中解脱出来的机会，这样他们就可以专注于学业。UCF有大量未被充分代表的学生，超过80%的转学新生和60%的新生表现出经济需求；因此，S-STEM奖学金吸引了广泛的学生。精心设计的活动吸引了所有学生参加积极的研究研讨会，讲座，部门和学院座谈会在UCF与S-STEM项目有关的各个学术单位。这些活动为学生们提供了激励，让他们继续学习STEM专业，并激励他们在学业上取得优异成绩。完成这个为期一年的项目的学生将被精简到现有的研究小组，这些小组与工业界有良好的合作关系。这些工业联系将用于将合格的学生直接投入劳动力市场。

Twenty academically talented students at the University of Central Florida (UCF) are being selected each year from science and engineering disciplines, with a special focus on mathematics and computer sciences, for scholarships in the range of $4,000 to $10,000 depending on financial need. Recruited students are in one of the following three groups (a) recent transfers to the university, (b) freshman undergraduate students and (c) first-year graduate students. New transfer students to UCF are being provided moral and financial support to help them with the transition and to ensure they will successfully complete the bachelor's degree in a STEM field. In particular, juniors are in a critical period in their university studies because it is when they embark on advanced courses in the major. The support of the S-STEM mentors ensures these transfer students are being supported during this critical period of time. The support for freshman undergraduates is providing them with much-needed study skill development and academic guidance when they are adjusting to a more independent life. Support for incoming graduate students is stabilizing their transition to heightened demands and is providing release from employment duties so they can focus on their academic endeavors. UCF has a significant population of underrepresented students and more than 80% of transfer and 60% of entering freshmen have demonstrated financial need; thus, the S-STEM scholarships are appealing to a broad range of students.Carefully designed activities are engaging all the student participants in active research seminars, lectures, departmental and college colloquia of the various academic units at UCF involved with the S-STEM project. These activities are providing incentives to keep the students engaged in their STEM major and motivating them to excel academically. Students completing the year-long project will be streamlined into existing research groups that have good industrial partnerships. These industrial connections will be used to place qualified students directly into the workforce.