Scholarships for STEM Majors

Panhandle Pipeline （P2）项目旨在招募、留住获得科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）学位的学生，并提高他们的表现。该项目的目标是：1。每年至少向20名STEM专业学生提供奖学金，总人数至少为60人，重点是代表性不足的学生。学生来自三个群体：经济困难的高中毕业生，成年学生和未申报的大学生，他们在STEM项目中表现出学术前景。协调和整合资源，提高学术成就，至少65%的STEM专业奖学金学生获得副学士学位。3. 与西德克萨斯a&m大学（WTAMU）合作，促进STEM专业的无缝转换。智力优势：目标是提高在学院注册的STEM学生的表现；提高获得副学士学位的STEM学生的数量、质量和多样性；并促进转学到四年制大学。该学院正在与美国国家科学基金会资助的WTAMU S-STEM社区学院转学STEM成功计划合作开展该项目，该计划为社区学院转学STEM学科的学生提供奖学金，从而为获得四年制学位提供无缝衔接的途径。更广泛的影响：该学院是一所西班牙裔服务机构，拥有11,000多名学生，其中28%是西班牙裔。P2通过提供奖学金和学术提升活动，提高STEM毕业生的数量和质量。由于该学院的大部分毕业生进入了区域劳动力或转入WTAMU，因此提高学生的STEM能力对提高该地区STEM劳动力的能力产生了很大影响。

The Panhandle Pipeline (P2) project is designed to recruit, retain, and improve the performance of students obtaining science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) degrees. The objectives of the project are to: 1. Provide scholarships to least 20 students per year and at least 60 overall who are majoring in STEM fields, with an emphasis on underrepresented students. Students come from three groups: financially-needy recent high school graduates, adult students, and undeclared college students who exhibit academic promise in STEM programs.2. Coordinate and integrate resources to increase academic success and graduate with an associate degree at least 65% of the scholarship students in STEM majors. 3. Partner with West Texas A&M University (WTAMU) to facilitate a seamless transfer for STEM majors. Intellectual Merit: The goals are to improve the performance of STEM students enrolled at the college; increase the quantity, quality, and diversity of STEM students obtaining associate degrees; and promoting transfer to a four-year university. The college is partnering in this project with the NSF-funded WTAMU S-STEM Community College Transfer for STEM Success program, which provides scholarships to community college transfer students in STEM disciplines and thus creates a seamless pathway to a four-year degree. Broader Impacts: The college is an Hispanic Serving Institution with an enrollment of over 11,000 students, 28% of whom are Hispanic. P2 is increasing the quantity and quality of STEM graduates by providing scholarships and academic enhancement activities. Since most of the graduates from the college enter the regional workforce or transfer to WTAMU, increasing the STEM abilities of students is having a great impact on increasing the capacity of the STEM workforce in the region.