Scholarships in Engineering, Science, Mathematics and Computer Science (SESMC)

艾伦·汉考克学院位于加利福尼亚州中部海岸，是一所服务于拉美裔美国人的社区学院，为学术能力较高但有经济困难的STEM学生提供两年制奖学金。工程、生物、化学、地质科学、物理、数学或计算机科学专业的学生可以自由承担全日制课程负担，并得到全面支持，以确保在学院的两年时间里取得学术成功，并在挑战STEM学科方面保持不变。在NSF和联邦政府资助的一系列倡议的基础上，基础设施已经到位，以支持这些学者，并促进他们转到四年制院校完成学士学位。虽然学生学习的STEM学科种类繁多，但许多基础课程是多个学科共有的，因此该项目具有支持学生努力的连贯性。积极的指导、对进度的监测以及与工业界和学术界专业人士建立联系的机会也是该计划不可或缺的组成部分。由于奖学金规模将满足大多数已证明的需求，因此，代表不足的少数族裔科学家和工程师的渠道因此更加开放。

Allan Hancock College, a Hispanic-serving community college on California's central coast, offers two-year scholarships to STEM students of high academic ability but financial need. Students in engineering, biology, chemistry, geological science, physics, mathematics or computer science are freed to undertake full-time course loads, and are supported thoroughly to ensure academic success and retention in challenging STEM disciplines through their two years at the college. Built on a series of NSF- and federally-funded initiatives, the infrastructure is in place to support the scholars and facilitate their transfer to four-year institutions to complete their bachelor's degrees. Though the students study a wide variety of STEM disciplines, many of the foundational courses are common to several disciplines, so the program has a coherence that supports the student efforts. Active mentoring, monitoring of progress, and opportunities for networking with professionals in industry and academe are also integral parts of the program. With scholarship size set to meet most of the demonstrated need, the pipeline of underrepresented minority scientists and engineers is thereby opened wider.