Opportunities, Mentoring, Education, Growth, and Academics

该项目向工程、工程技术、数学、物理或计算机科学专业的有经济需要的学业有天赋的学生颁发奖学金。该计划的目标包括(1)通过招聘努力增加获得学士学位的STEM学生的数量；(2)促进奖学金获得者和他们的教师导师之间持续、高质量的师生关系；(3)提高这些学生对可为他们提供的学术支持、职业规划和教育提升机会的认识，并鼓励他们利用这些资源和机会；(4)提高这些学生对高科技行业和研究生教育机会的认识和互动。招生工作集中在五个州地区对STEM领域感兴趣或有天赋的高中、社区大学和两年制大学学生。计划的组成部分包括广泛的教师指导和建议，与行业成员的联系，教育增强活动，同行指导，以及奖学金获得者的会议。智力价值：该项目以当前关于学生成功的文献以及S-STEM项目的先前成功为指导，这些项目使SDSU能够在成功的奖学金项目的基础上继续和改进。更广泛的影响：该项目提供了一种教育模式，将现有的学生支持系统和课堂学习与结构化的课外体验联系起来。在学生的早期和整个大学生涯中，通过经常接触和监测学生的详细战略，可以更好地留住STEM学生，这直接转化为对学生的影响，使他们能够毕业并获得STEM领域的学位。

The project is awarding scholarships to academically talented students with financial need majoring in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Mathematics, Physics, or Computer Science. Program objectives include (1) employ recruitment efforts to expand the number of STEM students earning a bachelor's degree; (2) promote sustained, high quality faculty/student relationships between scholarship recipients and their faculty mentors; (3) increase these students' awareness of the academic support, career planning, and educational enhancement opportunities available to them and encourage them to utilize these resources and opportunities; (4) increase these students' awareness of and interaction with high technology industries and graduate education opportunities. Recruitment efforts focus on high school, community college, and two-year college students in the five state region with an interest or aptitude in the STEM fields. Program components include extensive faculty mentoring and advising, contact with members of industry, educational enhancement activities, peer mentoring, and meetings of the scholarship recipients. Intellectual Merit: The project is guided by current literature on student success as well as prior success with S-STEM projects that enable SDSU to continue and improve upon a successful scholarship program. Broader Impact: The project provides an educational model that links existing student support systems and classroom learning with structured, out-of-the class experiences. Detailed strategies with frequent contact and monitoring of students early and throughout their college careers allow for greater retention of STEM students, which directly translates to impact on students and enables them to graduate with degrees in STEM fields.