Montana Minds - Scholarships for Science, Engineering, and Mathematics

蒙大拿理工学院的奖学金项目Montana Minds向20名有学术准备但经济困难的学生颁发可续期奖学金，以便他们获得生物学、化学、数学、计算机科学或软件工程等STEM学位学科的学位。蒙大拿州理工学院将与TRiO和GEAR UP的工作人员合作，在蒙大拿州24所贫困高中进行招聘，包括所有13所部落高中和7所部落大学。用于支持奖学金获得者的策略包括：-在学习社区中招收蒙大拿心灵的学者，以确保学生一起上几门课，并在学术和社会上进行互动，以发展成为一个有凝聚力的自我维持群体；-招收蒙大拿州心灵学院的学者，在他们进入校园的第一年，参加大学成功课程，旨在灌输和提高在大学取得成功所需的技能；-由一名STEM教师在一个学科内提供建议，该教师将指导每个学生的进步，并促进与其他STEM教师的关系；-指派精心挑选的高年级本科生导师/导师，协助蒙大拿州Minds的学者进行研究，并帮助这些学者之间建立社区；-协助蒙大拿心理学院的学者进行教师指导的本科生研究。-在蒙大拿州心灵学院大一和大二期间，参观国家科学和工程实验室，见证大规模的科学和工程；-资助每位学者在大三期间参加全国会议，以扩大他们对学科范围的了解；鼓励蒙大拿州的学者们加入他们学科的学生俱乐部。除了这些特殊的功能，使学者的成功，蒙大拿州的思想包括外展活动，以确保在全州范围内的中学和中学后教育系统的广泛影响。最终，该项目旨在改善学生的机会，提高毕业率，在蒙大拿理工学院创造一个更加以学生为中心的文化，并教育教师面对经济困难的学生所面临的挑战。

Montana Minds, a scholarship program of Montana Tech, is awarding renewable scholarships to 20 academically prepared but financially challenged students so that they will obtain degrees in the STEM degree disciplines of biology, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, or software engineering. Montana Tech, working with TRiO and GEAR UP staff, will target recruiting at 24 of Montana's impoverished high schools, including all 13 tribal high schools, and 7 tribal colleges.Strategies being used to support scholarship recipients include: - enrolling Montana Minds' scholars in Learning Communities that will ensure that students take several classes together and interact academically and socially to develop as a cohesive self-sustaining group; - enrolling Montana Minds' scholars, during their first years on campus, in a College Success course designed to instill and sharpen the skills needed to succeed in college; - advising within a discipline by a single STEM faculty member who will mentor each student's progress and catalyze relationships with other STEM faculty; - assigning carefully selected upper division undergraduate mentor/tutors to assist the Montana Minds' scholars with their studies and help build community among these scholars; - assisting Montana Minds' scholars in pursuing faculty mentored undergraduate research. - visiting, during the Montana Minds' scholars freshman and sophomore years, national science and engineering laboratories to witness science and engineering done on a grand scale; - providing the financial support for each of the scholars to attend a national meeting during their junior year to broaden their acquaintance with the scope of their discipline; and - encouraging the Montana Minds' scholars to become involved with student clubs in their discipline.Beyond these special features that enable the scholars' success, Montana Minds includes outreach activities to ensure broad impacts on a statewide level in both the secondary and post secondary educational systems. Ultimately, this program aims to improve opportunities for students, increase graduation rates, create a more student-focused culture at Montana Tech, and educate faculty on the challenges facing financially disadvantaged students.