ENGAGE: Educating the Next Generation of Geoscientists

教育下一代地球科学家项目正在通过课堂、讲座、讲习班和实地体验，为代表人数不足的群体成员，主要是西班牙裔，提供在正式和非正式环境中体验地球科学的机会。圣何塞州立大学、旧金山州立大学和门洛帕克的美国地质调查局之间的合作，正在开发利用少数民族的社会和文化价值观来支持动机、学习和学生对自己能力的信心的方法。克服学术、社会文化和经济障碍的策略包括客座讲座和研讨会、家庭科学之夜、将实验室和实地研究经验整合到本科课程、带薪暑期实习和奖学金，以及加强地区社区学院低水平本科生项目与上海州立大学高水平地学专业项目之间的联系。这些综合努力有助于实现以下重要目标：增加攻读和获得地球科学本科学位的学生的多样性，并在STEM领域代表性不足的社区中提高地球系统科学素养。

The Educating the Next Generation of Geoscientists (ENGAGE) project is providing opportunities for members of underrepresented groups, primarily Hispanic, to experience the geosciences in formal and informal settings via classroom, lecture, workshop, and field experiences. This collaboration between San Jose State University, San Francisco State University, and the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, is developing approaches that make use of the social and cultural values ethnic groups to support motivation, learning, and student confidence in their own abilities. Strategies to overcome academic, socio-cultural, and economic obstacles include guest lectures and workshops, family science nights, integration of laboratory and field research experiences in the undergraduate curriculum, paid summer internships and scholarships, and strengthening of pathways between lower level undergraduate programs in area community colleges and the upper level geoscience majors program at SJSU. These combined efforts serve the important goals of increasing the diversity of students pursuing and achieving undergraduate degrees in the geosciences and increasing Earth System Science literacy among communities that are underrepresented in the STEM fields.