Washington Internships for Native Students - WINS 2013-2016

华盛顿土著学生实习项目是在美利坚大学华盛顿学期项目的主持下设立的，旨在响应白宫的倡议，帮助美洲印第安人、阿拉斯加土著和夏威夷土著（AI/NA/HN）学生发展必要的知识和领导技能，以增强他们为部落社区和国家做出贡献的潜力。该项目拥有大量AI/NA/HN学生，通过将实习与课程相结合，注重体验式学习，并确保将主权国家和部落的传统价值观和做法纳入项目。WINS将继续与美国国家科学基金会合作，为AI/NA/HN学生提供实习机会，这是一个在STEM劳动力中代表性严重不足的群体。预计通过这一努力，NSF将成为扩大这一代表性不足群体参与的渠道，并使未来的STEM企业多样化，这是保持美国在全球环境中的竞争力所必需的。

The Washington Internship for Native Students, established under the auspices of The American University's Washington Semester Program, was developed in response to the White House Initiative to help American Indian, Alaskan Native and Native Hawaiian (AI/NA/HN) students develop knowledge and leadership skills necessary to enhance their potential to contribute to their tribal communities, and the nation. Having access to a significant pool of AI/NA/HN students, the program focuses on experiential learning by coupling internships with coursework and ensuring that traditional values and practices of sovereign nations and tribes are incorporated in the program. WINS will continue to collaborate with the National Science Foundation to provide internship placements for AI/NA/HN students, a group sorely under-represented in the STEM workforce. It is anticipated as a result of this effort, the NSF will serve as a conduit to broaden participation of this under-represented group, and diversify the future STEM enterprise, needed to keep the US competitive in a global environment.