Noyce in Northern Virginia

该Track 1项目的合作伙伴包括乔治梅森大学(GMU)、北弗吉尼亚社区学院(NOVA)以及费尔法克斯和普林斯县公立学校。NOVA和GMU之间的合作旨在确保NOVA学生顺利过渡到GMU的项目，并鼓励他们既主修科学又寻求STEM领域的教师资格证书。该项目为GMU和NOVA的大二和第二学期新生提供本科学习助学金(GMU共50人，NOVA 83人)，为有意成为中学STEM教师的初级和高级STEM专业的学生提供Noyce奖学金(共36人)，并简化Noyce研究员获得教师认证的程序。智力优势：该项目以科罗拉多博尔德大学非常成功的Noyce项目为蓝本，并利用了乔治梅森大学为增加STEM专业招生、保留和毕业人数而建立的现有项目-科学学院加速器计划(该计划包括数学、物理、化学、生物、地质和法医科学系)。更广泛的影响：该项目的更广泛的影响是它的潜力，通过一个学习助理计划，其中包括特别关注大学和K-12水平的教学，为让学生在学术生涯早期参与一个既增加他们在STEM的内容知识，又增加他们对教授STEM的兴趣和技能的计划树立了一个榜样。

Partners for this Track 1 project include George Mason University (GMU), Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA), and the Fairfax and Prince County Public Schools. The partnership between NOVA and GMU is designed to insure that NOVA students have a smooth transition into the program at GMU and to encourage them to both major in a science and seek a teaching credential in a STEM field. The project offers Undergraduate Learning Assistantships to sophomores and second semester freshman at both GMU and NOVA (a total of 50 at GMU and 83 at NOVA), Noyce Scholarships to junior and senior STEM majors interested in becoming secondary school STEM teachers (a total of 36) and a streamlined process for Noyce Fellows to gain teacher certification. Intellectual Merit: The project is modeled after a highly successful Noyce project at the University of Colorado Boulder and takes advantage of an existing project at George Mason established to increase the number of STEM majors recruited retained and graduated, The College of Science Accelerator Program (a program that includes the Departments of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geology, and Forensic Sciences). Broader Impact: The broader impacts of the project are its potential, through a Learning Assistants Program that includes specific attention to teaching at both the university and K-12 level, to set a model for involving students early in their academic career in a program that both adds to their content knowledge in STEM and to their interest and skills in teaching STEM.