High-Achievers Scholarship Program in Computer Science and Mathematics

阿巴拉契亚州立大学（ASU）的S-STEM计划，即计算机科学和数学的高成就奖学金计划，通过增加有潜力成功的经济弱势学生的教育机会，增加了高科技劳动力和攻读计算机科学和数学研究生学位的学生数量。该计划通过改善所有计算机科学和数学学生的支持基础设施，与地区高科技产业建立联系，提供领导力培训机会，并让学生参与研究，以多种方式增加阿巴拉契亚地区学生的学术机会。该计划的智力优势包括：1)每年平均有21名学术上有天赋，经济上处于不利地位的学者在两个STEM领域取得本科或研究生学位；2)它包括一个STEM研讨会，发起社区建设，指导和研究活动，辅以增值部分，如领导力研讨会和与以前的亚利桑那州立大学S-STEM学者毕业的指导关系；3)支持学者参与教师指导的研究项目和成果的传播，包括会议出版物和演讲。该计划的广泛影响包括：1)增加阿巴拉契亚地区贫困学生的教育机会；2)增加对亚利桑那州立大学所有STEM学生的学生支持服务；3)通过提高STEM劳动力能力，为阿巴拉契亚地区和北卡罗来纳州的经济发展做出贡献。

The S-STEM program, The High-Achievers Scholarship Program in Computer Science and Mathematics, at Appalachian State University (ASU) increases the high technology workforce and the number of Computer Science and Mathematic's students pursuing graduate degrees by increasing educational opportunities for economically disadvantaged students with the potential to succeed. The program increases academic opportunities for students from the Appalachia region in multiple ways, by improving the support infrastructure for all Computer Science and Mathematics students, establishing connections with regional high technology industry, providing leadership training opportunities, and engaging students in research.The intellectual merits of this program include: 1) It enables on average 21 academically talented, financially disadvantaged scholars per year to make progress toward gaining undergraduate or graduate degrees in two STEM fields; 2) It includes a STEM seminar that initiates community building, mentoring, and research activities, supplemented with value-added components such as leadership workshops and mentoring relationships with previous ASU S-STEM scholars who have graduated; 3) It supports scholar participation in faculty mentored research projects and the dissemination of results, including conference publications and presentations.The broader impacts of this program include: 1) Enhancing educational opportunities for disadvantaged students from the Appalachian region; 2) Increasing student support services for all STEM students at ASU; 3) Contributing to the economic development of the Appalachian region and North Carolina through increasing STEM workforce capacity.