Priming The Pipeline For The St. Louis Region - Creating A Future High Technology Workforce

为圣路易斯地区做好准备——打造未来高科技劳动力

• 批准号: 1104090
• 负责人: Donald Pohl
• 金额: $ 88.2万
• 依托单位: Ranken Technical College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1104090&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Priming; Pipeline; St.; Louis; Region

Ranken Technical College is partnering with the Saint Louis Public Schools, the Saint Louis Regional Business Council, and St. Louis for Kids to implement this "Priming the Pipeline" project. The project is providing a continuum of educational opportunities for students, beginning in middle school and continuing through the attainment of at least a 2-year Associate Degree and successful job placement in a high technology field, or transfer to a 4-year Bachelor Degree program. The project activities include coordination of science, math and technology-based experiences for middle school students through summer academies and other extra-curricular activities, a dual high school-college enrollment educational program, summer internship experiences in business and industry for secondary school students, a program to allow disconnected youth to revive their educational opportunities, integrated work-based learning components that include an apprenticeship program to create pathways to employment, and professional development for secondary school educators. Through the offering of this coordinated set of activities and opportunities for students and teachers, the project is working towards accomplishment of the following objectives: 1) motivating a significant number of disadvantaged students (middle school and high school grades) to pursue an education in high technology-related occupations; 2) providing an effective peer and professional mentoring program for participating students that promotes academic and personal achievement; 3) establishing a high school-to-college academic bridge program in STEM-related technical disciplines that effectively encourages educational advancement and achievement leading to AAS and BS degrees, and to industry-recognized certifications; 4) developing a registered internship and apprenticeship program that provides opportunities with St. Louis area industries, and that is centered on job-related competencies that lead to enhanced placement opportunities; 5) developing a cadre of secondary school teachers who demonstrate improved STEM teaching skills; and 6) increasing the number of individuals who will ultimately be prepared to join a highly qualified workforce serving St. Louis area high tech companies. By focusing on economically disadvantaged students from underrepresented groups in STEM, this project is expanding the pool of participants who are qualified for the many excellent careers available to trained technicians, particularly in the fields of biotechnology and advanced manufacturing, which are key growth industries in the St. Louis area. The project is replicating, extending, and enhancing various projects successfully conducted by other educational institutions, including Central Virginia Community College, Arizona State University, and Idaho State University, and in doing so is bringing together individuals and organizations in St. Louis with proven commitment and expertise to collaborate to ensure student success. This project is situated in a low-income, high minority urban setting, and has the potential to serve as a model for how to achieve long range effects that eliminate or mitigate some of the cyclical realities of generational poverty and low educational achievement.

兰肯技术学院正在与圣刘易斯公立学校，圣刘易斯地区商业理事会，和圣路易斯儿童合作，实施这一“启动管道”项目。该项目为学生提供连续的教育机会，从中学开始，并继续通过至少2年的副学士学位的实现和成功的高科技领域的就业安置，或转移到4年的学士学位课程。项目活动包括通过暑期学院和其他课外活动协调中学生的科学、数学和技术经验，高中-大学双招生教育计划，中学生的商业和工业暑期实习经验，让脱节青年恢复教育机会的计划，综合的基于工作的学习组成部分，包括学徒计划，为中学教育工作者创造就业和职业发展的途径。通过为学生和教师提供这一系列协调一致的活动和机会，该项目正在努力实现以下目标：1）激励大量处境不利的学生（初中和高中年级）接受高技术相关职业的教育; 2）为参与的学生提供有效的同伴和专业指导计划，以促进学术和个人成就; 3）在STEM相关技术学科建立高中到大学的学术桥梁计划，有效地鼓励教育进步和成就，从而获得AAS和BS学位，并获得行业认可的认证; 4）制定一个注册的实习和学徒计划，提供与圣路易斯地区行业的机会，并以与工作相关的能力为中心，从而提高就业机会; 5）培养一批中学教师，他们表现出更好的STEM教学技能; 6）增加最终准备加入为圣路易斯地区高科技公司服务的高素质劳动力队伍的人数。通过关注STEM中代表性不足的群体中的经济弱势学生，该项目正在扩大有资格从事受过培训的技术人员所能从事的许多优秀职业的参与者，特别是在生物技术和先进制造业领域，这是圣路易斯地区的关键增长产业。该项目正在复制，扩展和增强其他教育机构成功开展的各种项目，包括中央弗吉尼亚社区学院，亚利桑那州立大学和爱达荷州州立大学，并在这样做的过程中，将圣路易斯的个人和组织聚集在一起，以证明他们的承诺和专业知识，以确保学生的成功。该项目位于低收入、少数民族聚居的城市环境中，有可能成为如何实现消除或缓解世代贫穷和教育成就低下的一些周期性现实的长期影响的模式。