2-Pi STEM (2 Pathways into STEM Careers)

2-PI-STEM(进入STEM的2条途径)项目旨在通过提高认识活动、实地经验、基于问题的学习理念的教与学以及在劳森州立社区学院(LSCC)建立大学衔接计划，为科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)的专业职业生涯创造途径。该项目的活动将得到LSCC加强的STEM基础设施的支持，影响STEM职业生涯中人数不足的人群，特别是在阿拉巴马州中部地区。2-PI-STEM项目的总体目标是增加STEM职业道路上代表性不足的少数族裔的人数，重点放在以下目标上：(1)为STEM学生提供跨课程的指导和学习社区，以提高STEM课程的持久性和有效性(2)通过为高中生提供丰富和学业提升计划来创建STEM渠道(3)为新生实施大学过渡计划，并与LSCC的新生学院合作转学，这是一个让新生适应大学生活的研讨会班级。该项目预计将增加阿拉巴马州中部的一批非裔美国学生从高中毕业、保留在社区大学的STEM，以及转入STEM到一所四年制大学的准备和成功。

The 2-Pi-STEM (2-Pathways into STEM) Project is designed to create pathways to professional careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through awareness activities, field experiences, teaching and learning through problem-based learning concept and the establishment of a college bridge program at Lawson State Community College (LSCC). The activities of the project will be supported by an enhanced STEM infrastructure at LSCC impacting the underrepresented populations in STEM careers especially in the Central Alabama region. The overarching goal of the 2-Pi-STEM Project is to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in the STEM career paths focusing in the following goals: (1) Provide cross curricular mentoring and learning communities for STEM students to improve persistence and efficacy in STEM courses (2) Create a STEM pipeline by providing enrichment and academic enhancement programs for high school students (3) Implement a college bridge program for incoming freshman/sophomore and transfer students in concert with LSCC's Freshman Academy, a seminar class acclimating new students to college life. The project expects to increase preparation and success of a pool of African American students in Central Alabama in transitioning from high school, being retained in STEM at the community college, and transferring in STEM to a four-year college.