Doctoral Dissertation Research: Spelbots: A Case Study for fostering inclusive environments for STEM learning

在加州大学河滨分校的人类学家约兰达·摩西（Yolanda Moses）的指导下，博士生霍莉·奥康科沃（Holly O Okonkwo）将对斯佩尔曼学院的参与者进行一项人种学研究。S机器人程序。这项研究将有助于确定斯佩尔曼学院（Spelman College）是如何成功地利用联邦科学教育政策将自己定位为国家科学生产者的。斯佩尔曼学院是一所历史悠久的黑人女子文理学院，被指定为美国国家科学基金会（NSF）示范机构。该项目将有助于加深我们对“如何”利用当地机构的优势及其历史使命来培养STEM学习的内在包容性环境的理解，从而有助于美国国家科学基金会提高来自代表性不足背景的学生参与科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域的使命。

Under the supervision of anthropologist, Yolanda Moses at UC Riverside, Ph.D. student Holly O Okonkwo will conduct an ethnographic study of participants in Spellman Colleg'?s robotics program. This study will help identify the ways in which Spelman College, a historically black women's liberal arts college designated as an NSF Model Institution, has successfully used federal science education policy to position itself as a national science producer. This project will help increase our understanding of "how" to foster inherently inclusive environments for STEM learning utilizing the strengths of the local institution and its historical mission and thus should contribute to NSF's mission of increasing the participation on students from underrepresented backgrounds in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields.