Implementation Grant: DREAM STEM-Driving Research, Entrepreneurship, and Academics through Mastering STEM

实施项目题为-梦想干驱动研究，创业，和学术通过掌握干-有通过提供研究和创新的知识和技能，促进非洲裔美国人在干劳动力的更多参与的目标。目标是：增加科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）入学率，特别是在化学，环境，地球和地理空间科学，数学和物理课程;增加所有STEM学位课程的保留率;提高所有STEM学位课程的毕业生的持续性和增加毕业生的数量;激励教师在STEM教学和学习方面的研究和创新;加强对STEM学生的科学教育和技术培训。这些目标将通过三个主要项目组成部分实现：（1）科学教育中的创业精神;（2）培养学生作为科学家的认同感;（3）通过教学和研究创新小额赠款发展教师队伍。该项目将包括一个研究、发现和创新暑期研究所，让学生参与创业周期的科学和工程研究与开发部分，这可能导致产品和工艺创新。通过北卡罗来纳州中央大学高度综合的科学创业项目的课外活动，学生在获得STEM学科学士学位后将获得技术创业证书。从项目中获得的信息和知识将决定开发创业思维和接受创业培训的学生是否会入学，保留，并坚持以更高的速度在STEM学位课程;促进科学身份的活动是否会以更高的速度保留STEM学位课程的学生，并提高他们对STEM学位的坚持性;以及用于教师发展的竞争性小额赠款是否会导致STEM教学和学习的创新。将通过在国家会议上的介绍和在同行评审期刊上的出版物，向更广泛的受众传播从该项目中获得的知识和经验教训。

The Implementation project entitled - DREAM STEM-Driving Research, Entrepreneurship, and Academics through Mastering STEM - has the goal of contributing to greater participation of African Americans in the STEM workforce by providing the knowledge and skills for research and innovation. The objectives are: to increase science, technology, enginnering and mathematics (STEM) enrollment, particularly in Chemistry, Environmental, Earth, and Geospatial Sciences, Mathematics, and Physics programs; to increase retention in all STEM degree programs; to improve persistence in and increase the number of graduates from all STEM degree programs; to stimulate faculty research and innovations in STEM teaching and learning; and to enhance scientific education and technical training for STEM students. The objectives will be achieved through three primary project components: 1) Entrepreneurship in science education; 2) Development of students' identity as scientists; and 3) Faculty development through teaching and learning research innovation mini-grants. The project will include a Research, Discovery and Innovation Summer Institute to engage students in the science and engineering research and development portion of the entrepreneurship cycle, which can result in product and process innovations. By means of an extracurricular activity through a highly integrated science-based entrepreneurship program at North Carolina Central University students will earn a certificate in technological entrepreneurship when they graduate with a BS degree in a STEM discipline.The information and knowledge expected to be obtained from the project will be determinants of whether students who developed entrepreneurial thinking and got entrepreneurial training will enroll in, be retained in, and persist in STEM degree programs at a higher rate; whether activities that facilitate science identity will retain students in STEM degree programs at a higher rate and improve their persistence to a STEM degree; and whether competitive mini-grants for faculty development will lead to innovations in STEM teaching and learning. Knowledge and lessons learned from the project will be disseminated to a wider audience through presentations at national meetings and publications in peer-review journals.